Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI & BlueBRIDGE Coordinator, gave an introductive talk in the "Towards an e-infrastructure in agriculture?" session at the Euragri workship in Inra, Paris discussing leading an e-infrastructure project in marine research e-Infrastructure and how it refers to a combination of digital technologies (hardware and software), resources (data, services, digital libraries), communications (protocols, access rights and networks), and the people and organisational structures needed to manage them.