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This book was conceived near the end of the Fish4Knowledge project as a way of communicating the achievements of the project to the scientific community. Many scientific projects are very successful with journal and conference publications, but it is rare to find an extended document that gives a full overview of a project, describing not only the original contributions but also the necessary infrastructure aspects. This book belongs to the latter category—it gives a brief introduction to almost all aspects of the project in a series of 18 short chapters. This exposes a range of topics, and also a view of how all of the topics fit together into the full project. It is not a “popular science” account of the project, ie, it does not go into the personalities, motivations, and challenges behind the project. Instead, it is a technical book describing the scientific and engineering of the project. But by keeping the chapters short, we have tried to …