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The objectives of WP6 are: 1. To set up a set of tools and services enabling cross-discipline interoperability; 2. To share tools and services across different communities. This document reports on the status of actions carried out towards achieving those two objectives in the context of three tasks: Task 6.2 - Tools and services enabling interoperability This task addresses the provision of interoperability tools/services to the PARTHENOS research communities and contributes to the first objective of WP6. The provision status of tools and services for interoperability is summarised in Table 1 (page 12). Task 6.3 - Sharing specialized tools This task addresses the provision of tools/services for manipulating, presenting and publishing similar data within the disciplinary domains (or possibly outside) and contributes to the second objective of the WP. A selection of specialised services that will be considered for integration in the PARTHENOS infrastructure are provided in Table 3 (page 30) and the options to perform the integration are discussed. Task 6.5 - Resource discovery tools This task will deliver a number of tools for the discovery of resources available in the PARTHENOS ecosystem, thus contributing to the second objective of the WP with an API and GUI for the cross-communities and cross-discipline discovery of PARTHENOS resources. An overview of resource discovery tools is given in Section 5.3. This deliverable is an interim report. The final version of the report will be delivered in M45 as D6.4 report/deliverable. Outline of the report The document is organised into five main sections. Section 2 describes the methodology adopted by T6.2 and T6.3 for the selection and the delivery of relevant tools and services to the PARTHENOS community. Section 3 describes the integration status of services and tools for interoperability into the PARTHENOS infrastructure (T6.2). Section 4 discusses 9 the available options for integrating specialised tools into the PARTHENOS infrastructure and presents a selection of tools that that will be considered for integration (T6.3). Section 5 describes requirements and desiderata for setting up advanced resource discovery tools (T6.5). Section 6 concludes the deliverable with the description of the NERLIX use case, which will be used to test, and prototypically synthesize the various technical aspects of the PARTHENOS endeavour - resource aggregation & discovery, metadata mapping, integration of processing and visualisation services.