Sustainable Infrastructures and Services for Research Data Management in Earth System Sciences – Joining Forces
Convener:
Wolfgang zu Castell
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Co-conveners:
Lars Bernard,
Peter Braesicke,
Christin Henzen,
Hannes Thiemann
Wed, 30 Apr, 19:00–20:00 (CEST) Room 1.31/32
Wed, 19:00
In the meantime, there are a wealth of initiatives and projects that aim to organize research data from Earth system sciences within the framework of digital infrastructures according to the FAIR principles, and to prepare them for broad reuse.
This results in the increasingly greater challenge of networking such initiatives across specialist domains and organizational boundaries in such a way that users are able to work with the data and associated tools without any apparent interruption. Typically, many of the approaches follow the perspective of a dedicated user community and thus tend to focus on certain domain-specific aspects of Earth system science. However, initiatives such as NFDI4Earth in Germany purposely foster a compartment overarching, holistic approach.
Following a data-centric perspective and making use of state-of-the-art technologies, both approaches can be combined towards building a joint distributed digital research infrastructure. The key idea hereby is to harmonize approaches while allowing individual contributors to detail-out their specific requirements.
The aim of the meeting is to bring together various perspectives of users, data providers, infrastructure providers and policy makers to discuss the principles and agreements needed to establish a network of virtual infrastructures. Hereby, examples from ongoing initiatives will be brought together with experiences in establishing cross-domain collaboration. Both will be complemented with providing perspectives from the point of view of users. Ideally, the discussion will result in a common roadmap for joint action. Furthermore, the discussion will show where gaps still exist and which approaches are suitable for closing them.
The oral presentations are given in a hybrid format supported by a Zoom meeting featuring on-site and virtual presentations. The button to access the Zoom meeting appears just before the time block starts.