Jupyter Notebooks in European Plate Observing System (EPOS)

The European Plate Observing System (EPOS) addresses the problem of homogeneous access to heterogeneous digital assets in geoscience within the European tectonic plate. EPOS is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) since 2018, with the goal of building long-term and sustainable infrastructure for solid Earth science. The EPOS Data Portal was launched into the operational phase in April 2023 and is introducing new ways for cross-disciplinary research, especially for data discovery. Currently the EPOS Data Portal, a metadata and semantic-driven system for integrating Data, Software and services,  provides access to data and data products from ten different geoscientific areas: Seismology, Near Fault Observatories, GNSS Data and Products, Volcano Observations, Satellite Data, Geomagnetic Observations, Anthropogenic Hazards, Geological Information and Modelling, Multi-scale laboratories and Tsunami Research. The presentation shows the achievements of the EPOS community, demonstrates features of the Portal user interface and also the underlying architecture of the whole system and online processing environment. The IT system as such is shared as Open Source and is under continuous development and improvement, following the SDLC methodology: Shape Up.

This presentation focuses on the integration of Jupyter Notebooks into EPOS through Virtual Research Environment (VRE) which allows advanced processing of datasets provided already through EPOS Data Portal. Examples of Jupyter Notebooks covering various scientific multidisciplinary use cases introduce typical data processing workflows and visualizations for efficient use of services collected through EPOS. Expansion of the EPOS-DCAT-AP metadata model by new entities for managing software components and its utilization opens new possibilities for data access and paves the road for integration into other e-infrastructures.