Description This deliverable reports an early validation of the ECLAP infrastructure. In more detail it reports:
(i) the status of the implementation of the ECLAP Portal with respects of the requirements identified in DE 2.1.1 and of the other functionalities presented in DE 3.1 (Infrastructure: ingestion and processing content and metadata). (ii) the usage statistics of the portal in the first year, the statistics highlight which are the parts of the portal that are more used or not used, the results will be used to optimize the ECLAP infrastructure. (iii) a plan for usability assessment of the portal both for the end-users and for the content providers to highlight the usability problems of the portal. The next version of this deliverable (DE6.1.2) will report the findings of the usability inspections and will report on the modifications to perform or performed to avoid usability problems.