The goal of Science Project 9 of EOSC Future WP6.3 is to demonstrate that relevant environmental data and data on citizens' values, attitudes, behavior and involvement can be combined for social, political and scientific analysis.

This project includes an upgrade of an application developed internally at Sikt, with the aim to support integration of climate data with the ESS data and the regional contextual data already supported by the tool. Data will also be available via the EOSC Platform.

The upcoming work product of the DDI Alliance, the DDI-Cross Domain Integration metadata standard will be used to bridge between data from the different research domains and of different structures. We will also explore how standards may be used together.

This presentation will give an introduction to the project, report on work performed so far with focus on methods and challenges, and will provide ideas for the future.

How to cite: Orten, H. and Agasøster, B.: Cross Domain Interoperability in Science Project 9 of EOSC Future WP6.3, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-2047, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-2047, 2023.

Climate Change is one of the most pressing global challenges in which researchers from around the world and from a wide range of disciplines are working together. This requires infrastructures that enable both local and cross-border cooperation.

Within IS-ENES, the Infrastructure for Earth System Modelling, European partners from the areas of climate modelling, computational science, data management, climate impacts and climate services are working together, to deliver a research infrastructures to provide access to climate model data and tools to boost the understanding of past, present and future climate variability and changes. Core element of the infrastructure is the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF), which is operated in a global partnership.

In the Horizon Europe project FAIRCORE4EOSC, the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) is involved in the design of further services in the European Open Science Cloud, that also meet the requirements of the IS-ENES community and is particularly dedicated to examining and testing the possibility of integrating EOSC and IS-ENES services.

FAIRCORE4EOSC focuses on the development and realization of further core components for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Leveraging existing technologies and services, the project will develop nine new EOSC-Core components aimed at improving the discoverability and interoperability of an increased amount of research outputs. In particular, IS-ENES checks this for selected data collections that have high scientific relevance for both data producers (the climate modellers) and data users from other research disciplines and will be available in the long term, such as those used for the IPCC reports,

These data collections and associated scientific entities (such as scientific projects) will be identified and will receive identifiers using Kernel Information Types as well as entries in the Data Type Registry with its corresponding contents. The consideration of the different aggregation levels, which is decisive for the re-use, is taken into account and a PID Graph will be utilized to enhance and simplify the re-use of data. Where appropriate, ‘Research Activity identifiers’ (RAiDs) will be assigned to projects and experiments, providing (domain agnostic) users with an aggregated view on the entities (data, software, people involved, etc.pp.) of the scientific project.

Crucial is the interlinking of service metadata with data collection metadata in the PID graph and EOSC research discovery graph to enable advanced discovery support for the ENES community. Additionally, the generated provenance records will be extended to include DOI and data citation info thus improving the reusability of derived data products in interdisciplinary research contexts. In the latter context, IS-ENES will use also the Metadata Crosswalk Registry (MSCR) to improve interoperable reuse of ENES data by impact communities through providing crosswalks from vocabularies for climate variables (e.g. the CF conventions) to ontologies understandable and interpretable by other communities.

This talk will provide an overview of the current status of the implementation and its long-term benefits for researchers in IS-ENES and beyond and will highlight some challenges related to the integration of various large infrastructures.

How to cite: Thiemann, H., Widmann, H., Kindermann, S., Adloff, F., and von Brandt, J.: Challenges of integrating large infrastructures using the example of ENES-CDI and EOSC, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-14294, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14294, 2023.

The marine subdomain consists of a diverse data landscape, with several Research Infrastructures (RIs) involved. In the ENVRI-FAIR project the marine domain is represented by Euro-ARGO, ICOS (Marine), EMSO, and LifeWatch (Marine) as RIs as listed on the ESFRI roadmap, and SeaDataNet as European marine data management infrastructure. The overarching goal of ENVRI-FAIR is that all participating research infrastructures (RIs) will improve their level of FAIRness and become ready for connecting their data repositories and services to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

To achieve this goal, the marine domain partners have first analysed and assessed the FAIRNess level of each participating RI and identified the necessary actions to improve their individual FAIRness. They then created a roadmap and implementation plan that led to the development of an Essential Ocean Variable (EOV) demonstrator, highlighting the FAIRness achievements.   

In this presentation we will discuss in more detail the RI FAIR assessment and analysis process and show how it evolved alongside the evolution of the FAIR assessment tools themselves and the harmonisation required to be meaningful and useful. We will then walk you through the analysis of this assessment that led to a list of strengths and weaknesses per RI, and the solutions to overcome the weaknesses for each individual of the FAIR principle. Finally, we will present the outcomes of the required upgrades, adoptions of standards, improvements, developments and services that were developed as part of the implementation plan and led to the construction of the EOV demonstrator product.

How to cite: Thijsse, P., Carval, T., Kokkinaki, A., Buck, J., Moncoiffe, G., Quimbert, E., Alviset, G., and Schaap, D.: The journey towards FAIR: A story from the marine domain, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-4802, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-4802, 2023.

The present era of rapid technological advances creates a challenge for data providers and scientists to create and maintain FAIR data and services not just for future operations but also for historical data gathered and analysed with technologies that are slowly phasing out of their usage. GUISDAP is an open source software package, written in Matlab, C and Fortran and provided and maintained by EISCAT, for analysis and visualisation of its incoherent scatter radar data as well as for some other radars in the world. As the new incoherent radar system (EISCAT_3D) is built, the current mainland radar systems will cease their operations. Thus, the development and maintenance of the compatibility of GUISDAP with newer computational technologies will become more challenging.

One way how to preserve GUISDAP operability and accessibility by the user community is to make it accessible through a Jupyter notebook docker deployment through EISCAT resources and in the frame of an EOSC project. This will help to ensure the FAIRness of historical EISCAT data by providing tools for reanalysis and visualisation that will be accessible by any potential EISCAT user. This poster will present our project with GUISDAP in a Jupyter notebook environment.

How to cite: Mihalikova, M. and Häggström, I.: The GUISDAP analysis software in Jupyter notebook as a tool for the FAIRness of the current EISCAT data, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-8691, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-8691, 2023.

Guided by the Framework Criteria of the Group of Senior Officials (GSO) on Global Research Infrastructures, 6 major ecosystem research infrastructures (SAEON/South Africa, TERN/Australia, CERN/China, NEON/USA, ICOS/Europe, eLTER/Europe) came together in 2020 under an MOU, establishing the Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI).  With its goal of providing interoperable data and services based on terrestrial and coastal in-situ observations from a high number of observational sites, organized in a common hierarchical system and standardized in the highest possible degree, GERI provides a unique opportunity to advance our understanding of ecological processes across continents, decades, and disciplinary boundaries.

Aggregating ecological and biogeophysical data is complex. Not only do those data cover a myriad of different types of natural phenomena, and the interactions between, but the data are generated in different jurisdictions using different standards and approaches. Thus, as a critical first step in understanding the challenges and potential of its multi-institutional, multi-country data landscape, GERI has identified and mapped all the data types from each of its members, grouping the data suites provided by each GERI member into the drivers of changes (causes) and the ecological processes (effects) and then visualizing it into broad (searchable) respective common ecological categories.

This exercise has allowed evaluation of the potential for a targeted data harmonization effort based on a subset of data products with high relevance to specific use cases (e.g., drought across multiple continents). By using the subset of relevant data as a community test case, GERI can ascertain the efficacy of a specific harmonized data set in advancing a priority area of science. Such a prototype will set the stage for future efforts and ensures GERI addresses the most pressing global research challenges, i.e. those frontiers of knowledge where a global-critical-mass effort is required to achieve progress.   

How to cite: Morris, B., Kutsch, W., SanClements, M., Loescher, H., Genazzio, M., Mirtl, M., Back, J., Bornman, T., Mabee, P., Yu, X., Zacharias, S., Feig, G., Grant, M., Salmon, E., and Zhang, L.: Addressing pressing global societal research challenges through targeted harmonisation of macrosystems ecology data sets, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-9906, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-9906, 2023.

‘WorldFAIR: Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice’ is a European Commission funded project composed of 11 discipline and cross-discipline case studies drawn together by CODATA, the Committee on DATA of the International Science Councils Committee on DATA, and is supported by the Research Data Alliance. WorldFAIR is a diverse, global community effort that currently has 19 partners located in Africa, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America, representing organisations from research, government and industry. The 11 individual case studies are drawn from Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Geochemistry, Social Surveys, Population Health, Urban Health, Biodiversity, Agriculture, Oceans, Disaster Risk Reduction and Cultural Heritage. The WorldFAIR project aims to focus on the interoperability and reusability of research data products from both within and across disciplines by creating a Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF).

The foundation of the CDIF will be a series of FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) which will be used as a methodology for individual communities to express their FAIR practices and decisions for each of the 15 individual FAIR guiding principles. 

As an example of how this will work, the WorldFAIR’s Geochemistry case study is led by OneGeochemistry, an international network of national geochemical data infrastructure organisations. Initially an informal network with representatives from AuScope (Australia), GEOROC (Germany), EPOS Multi-scale Laboratories (Europe), EarthChem (US) and AstroMaterials (US). With the advent of WorldFAIR, OneGeochemistry has formalised it’s governance structure and is now a CODATA Work Group. Over the life of WorldFAIR, OneGeochemistry will work towards developing a community prototype FAIR Implementation Profile(s) for individual geochemical techniques, including the minimum defined variables, through workshops and consultations, and subsequently be responsible for their communication, publication and dissemination. The Geochemistry case study will work closely with the Chemistry case study and leverage relevant chemical standards and vocabularies wherever possible.

Through the development of community lead FAIR Implementation Profile(s) for geochemistry within a global Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF), WorldFAIR and OneGeochemistry are both advancing the adoption of the FAIR data principles within Geochemistry and simultaneously enabling interoperability of geochemical research data products across the other ten discipline case studies.

How to cite: Farrington, R., Prent, A., Wyborn, L., Rawling, T., Klöcking, M., Lehnert, K., Elger, K., ter Maat, G., Hezel, D., and Hodson, S.: The WorldFAIR project: enabling global interdisciplinary cooperation on integrating FAIR Data policy and practices in geochemistry with ten other disciplinary groups., EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-15749, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-15749, 2023.

Modern scientific endeavours already have the capacity to call upon a vast variety of data, often in huge volumes. However, the challenge is not only how to make the most of such a resource, but also how to make it available to the wider scientific community, especially for encouraging curiosity-driven research. Fifty-one institutions from 13 countries are currently working together in the Geo-INQUIRE (Geosphere INfrastructure for QUestions into Integrated REsearch) project.

The main goal of this new project is to enhance, give access to, and make interoperable, key datasets of the Geoscience community. This will include "big" data streams and high-performance computing codes which are critical to studying the temporal variation of the solid Earth, forecasting multi-hazards, evaluating Georesources and the analysis of the interface between the solid Earth as well as oceans and atmosphere.  About 150 access points – both on-site and virtually are involved. Transnational Access (TA, both virtual and on-site) will be provided at six test beds across Europe: the Bedretto Laboratory, Switzerland; the Ella-Link Geolab, Portugal; the Liguria-Nice-Monaco submarine infrastructure, Italy/France; the Irpinia Near-Fault Observatory, Italy; the Eastern Sicily facility, Italy; and the Corinth Rift Laboratory, Greece.

Several European Research Infrastructure Consortia take part, namely the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) for solid Earth and geodynamics observations, the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and Water Column Observatory (EMSO) for deep-sea and coastal observations, and ECCSEL for CO₂ capture, utilization, transport, and storage, and geoenergy. This 16 million Euro project started in October 2022, within the Horizon Europe Infrastructure program of the European Union.

The presentation will briefly describe the project and give examples of curiosity-driven research topics which will be made possible through such a multi-disciplinary project. We will finally present the challenges and efforts made to comply with FAIR principles and accompany the dissemination of the data with innovative and cross-disciplinary training activities.

How to cite: Cotton, F., Strollo, A., Pedersen, H., Crowley, H., Wiemer, S., Haslinger, F., Urvois, M., Schmittbuhl, J., Lorito, S., Babeyko, A., Bailo, D., Michalek, J., Lange, O., Quintero, J., Festa, G., Murphy, S., Majdanski, M., Christadle, I., Prestes, M., and Weege, S.: Advancing frontier knowledge of the solid earth by providing access to integrated and customized services: the Geo-INQUIRE project, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-12686, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-12686, 2023.

The Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System (ITINERIS) Project started in November, and it will build the Italian Hub of Research Infrastructures in the environmental scientific domain providing access to data and services and supporting the Country to address current and expected environmental challenges. ITINERIS coordinates a network of national nodes from 22 RIs (18 from the environmental domain, 2 from agri-food with strong link with the environment and 2 from the PSE domain, supporting services for the marine domain).

ITINERIS has been designed looking at synergy with the European RI framework, and it will support the participation of Italian scientists in pan-European initiatives (ENVRI-FAIR, EOSC) and in HE (Pillar 1, Missions, Partnerships, Clusters). ITINERIS will have significant impact on national environmental research, providing scientific support to the design of actionable environmental strategies. ITINERIS adopts a whole-system, cross-disciplinary approach to the Earth System and its changes, allowing users to benefit from the integrated system of RIs and the knowledge it produces. This broad-scale vision of environmental research, sustained by the main Italian environmental scientists involved in European RIs, is truly innovative and it will support our Country in taking a leading role in European environmental research, designing the framework for the next decades.

A specific objective will be focused on the access to facilities, FAIR data and related services connecting the established network of distributed national environmental research infrastructures to as wide as possible user community. Following a user-centric approach and in accordance with the RIs’ network technical capability and mission, access services to the national RIs’ facilities and FAIR resources (data, services and other research outputs) will be set up. Most of the 22 RIs participating in ITINERIS already offer data and services from and across different domains of the Earth system - Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Terrestrial Biosphere and Geosphere through different systems, protocols, portals and different access and FAIRification procedures.

ITINERIS builds upon this current effort to improve Access management and FAIRness, developing the conditions for harmonizing standards, metadata and policies amongst the different RIs. It has to be considered that involved RIs are very diverse and on different levels of maturity but face similar challenges in their operations in regard to FAIR compliance and Access management.

How to cite: Cornacchia, C. and Rosati, I.: Access to facilities, FAIR data and related services: the ITINERIS project, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 23–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-15909, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-15909, 2023.