scholarly journals Ready to use implementation of project’s data portal with catalogue for findability, common services (SFTP,OPeNDAP) and persistent identifier for accessibility and interoperability

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Paglialonga ◽  
Carsten Schirnick
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Data Portal ◽  
Persistent Identifier

This document describes the GEOMAR data portal used by the data management team to make data openly accessible that do not fit into a specialized repository.

Towards a Specialized Environmental Data Portal: Challenges and Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ionut Iosifescu-Enescu ◽  
Gian-Kasper Plattner ◽  
Dominik Haas-Artho ◽  
David Hanimann ◽  
Konrad Steffen
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
Environmental Domain ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Data Portal

<p>EnviDat – www.envidat.ch – is the institutional Environmental Data portal of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. Launched in 2012 as a small project to explore possible solutions for a generic WSL-wide data portal, it has since evolved into a strategic initiative at the institutional level tackling issues in the broad areas of Open Research Data and Research Data Management. EnviDat demonstrates our commitment to accessible research data in order to advance environmental science.</p><p>EnviDat actively implements the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) principles. Core EnviDat research data management services include the registration, integration and hosting of quality-controlled, publication-ready data from a wide range of terrestrial environmental systems, in order to provide unified access to WSL’s environmental monitoring and research data. The registration of research data in EnviDat results in the formal publication with permanent identifiers (EnviDat own PIDs as well as DOIs) and the assignment of appropriate citation information.</p><p>Innovative EnviDat features that contribute to the global system of modern documentation and exchange of scientific information include: (i) a DataCRediT mechanism designed for specifying data authorship (Collection, Validation, Curation, Software, Publication, Supervision), (ii) the ability to enhance published research data with additional resources, such as model codes and software, (iii) in-depth documentation of data provenance, e.g., through a dataset description as well as related publications and datasets, (iv) unambiguous and persistent identifiers for authors (ORCIDs) and, in the medium-term, (v) a decentralized “peer-review” data publication process for safeguarding the quality of available datasets in EnviDat.</p><p>More recently, the EnviDat development has been moving beyond the set of core features expected from a research data management portal with a built-in publishing repository. This evolution is driven by the diverse set of researchers’ requirements for a specialized environmental data portal that formally cuts across the five WSL research themes forest, landscape, biodiversity, natural hazards, and snow and ice, and that concerns all research units and central IT services.</p><p>Examples of such recent requirements for EnviDat include: (i) immediate access to data collected by automatic measurements stations, (ii) metadata and data visualization on charts and maps, with geoservices for large geodatasets, and (iii) progress towards linked open data (LOD) with curated vocabularies and semantics for the environmental domain.</p><p>There are many challenges associated with the developments mentioned above. However, they also represent opportunities for further improving the exchange of scientific information in the environmental domain. Especially geospatial technologies have the potential to become a central element for any specialized environmental data portal, triggering the convergence between publishing repositories and geoportals. Ultimately, these new requirements demonstrate the raised expectations that institutions and researchers have towards the future capabilities of research data portals and repositories in the environmental domain. With EnviDat, we are ready to take up these challenges over the years to come.</p>

scholarly journals 10 years of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): where do we stand & where are we heading?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leen Vandepitte ◽  
Bart Vanhoorne ◽  
Wim Decock ◽  
Thomas Lanssens ◽  
Stefanie Dekeyzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Excellent Opportunity ◽  
Online Portal ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The World Register of Marine Species aims to provide the most authoritative list of names of all marine species, ever published through a freely available online portal. In 2017, WoRMS celebrated its 10th anniversary. This was an excellent opportunity to both look backward and forward, by analyzing how the system has grown, how it is used and how it can be improved in the future. Although there are more than 240,000 accepted marine species available through WoRMS, an analysis of editor activity shows that there are still many species names missing from the system, and that this does not only concern recently published species. Each year, an average of 38,000 marine species names are added to WoRMS – compared to the on average 2000 newly described marine species per year. An actively collaborating editor community and Data Management Team are indispensable in keeping a database like WoRMS alive, and mean that WoRMS is now regarded as the standard marine species taxonomic backbone for numerous other initiative such as NCBI Genbank, BOLD, CoL, EOL, GBIF and OBIS. Funding to keep WoRMS going currently is provided through the LifeWatch project. WoRMS constitutes a major contribution to the LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone.

scholarly journals From Disaster to Understanding: Formation and Accomplishments of the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative

Oceanography ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-29
Author(s):  
Leigh Zimmermann ◽  
◽  
Michael Feldman ◽  
Debra Benoit ◽  
Michael Carron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Deepwater Horizon ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Research Initiative ◽  
Community Of Researchers ◽  
To Come

The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) was created in 2010 following the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. BP engaged Rita Colwell to form and lead an independent board of experts to oversee an unprecedented program of scientific research on the effects of the spill. As a new and uniquely funded organization, GoMRI quickly developed and implemented a set of management processes, policies, and frameworks while simultaneously building an interconnected research community that eventually grew to nearly 4,500 individuals. The GoMRI Research Board and Management Team successfully produced and operated a system for requests for proposals, grants management, scientific and programmatic data management, and outreach and education, and assembled a scientific synthesis of results to create a lasting legacy 10 years after the disaster. Here, we document the challenges and key decisions underlying the design and operation of GoMRI as a model for independent, industry-funded research. In short, GoMRI represents a unique multi-sector partnership and a community of researchers that will advance science in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere for decades to come.

scholarly journals Accessing Diverse Data Comprehensively – CODM the COSYNA Data Portal

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisbert Breitbach ◽  
Hajo Krasemann ◽  
Daniel Behr ◽  
Steffen Beringer ◽  
Uwe Lange ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Observation System ◽  
Coastal System ◽  
Data Usage ◽  
Comprehensive View ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
Data Portal ◽  
Diverse Data

Abstract. The coastal observation system COSYNA aims to describe the physical and biogeochemical state of a regional coastal system. The COSYNA data management is the link between observations, model results and data usage. The challenge for the COSYNA data management CODM is the integration of diverse data sources in terms of parameters, dimensionality and observation methods to gain a comprehensive view of the observations. This is achieved by describing the data using metadata in a generic way and by making all gathered data available for different analyses and visualisations in an interrelated way, independent of data dimensionality. Different parameter names for the same observed property are mapped to the corresponding CF standard name leading to standardised and comparable metadata. These metadata together with standardised web services are the base for the data portal.

scholarly journals Persistent Identifier Practice for Big Data Management at NCI

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingbo Wang ◽  
Nicholas Car ◽  
Ben Evans ◽  
Kashif Gohar ◽  
Claire Trenham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Persistent Identifier

scholarly journals A decade of the World Register of Marine Species – General insights and experiences from the Data Management Team: Where are we, what have we learned and how can we continue?

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. e0194599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leen Vandepitte ◽  
Bart Vanhoorne ◽  
Wim Decock ◽  
Sofie Vranken ◽  
Thomas Lanssens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Management Team ◽  
The World

scholarly journals Accessing diverse data comprehensively – CODM, the COSYNA data portal

Ocean Science ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 909-923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisbert Breitbach ◽  
Hajo Krasemann ◽  
Daniel Behr ◽  
Steffen Beringer ◽  
Uwe Lange ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Observation System ◽  
Coastal System ◽  
Data Usage ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
Direct Data ◽  
Data Portal ◽  
Diverse Data

Abstract. The coastal observation system COSYNA aims to describe the physical and biogeochemical state of a regional coastal system. The COSYNA data management is the link between observations, model results and data usage. The challenge for the COSYNA data management CODM is the integration of diverse data sources in terms of parameters, dimensionality and observation methods to gain a comprehensive view of the observations. This is achieved by describing the data using metadata in a generic way and by making all gathered data available for different analyses and visualisations in an interrelated way, independent of data dimensionality. Different parameter names for the same observed property are mapped to the corresponding CF standard name Eaton et al. (2010) leading to standardised and comparable metadata. These metadata together with standardised web services are the base for the data portal. The URLs of these web services are also stored within the metadata as direct data access URLs, e.g. a map such as a GetMap request.

scholarly journals Rebuilding a Data Management Team to Improve Program Efficiency and Clinical Compliance

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. S79
Author(s):  
Kayla Woodring ◽  
Francesca Paglione ◽  
Daniel R. Couriel ◽  
Nicole Felkel
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Program Efficiency

scholarly journals 10 years of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): where do we stand & where are we heading?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leen Vandepitte ◽  
Bart Vanhoorne ◽  
Wim Decock ◽  
Thomas Lanssens ◽  
Stefanie Dekeyzer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Management Team ◽  
Excellent Opportunity ◽  
Online Portal ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The World Register of Marine Species aims to provide the most authoritative list of names of all marine species, ever published through a freely available online portal. In 2017, WoRMS celebrated its 10th anniversary. This was an excellent opportunity to both look backward and forward, by analyzing how the system has grown, how it is used and how it can be improved in the future. Although there are more than 240,000 accepted marine species available through WoRMS, an analysis of editor activity shows that there are still many species names missing from the system, and that this does not only concern recently published species. Each year, an average of 38,000 marine species names are added to WoRMS – compared to the on average 2000 newly described marine species per year. An actively collaborating editor community and Data Management Team are indispensable in keeping a database like WoRMS alive, and mean that WoRMS is now regarded as the standard marine species taxonomic backbone for numerous other initiative such as NCBI Genbank, BOLD, CoL, EOL, GBIF and OBIS. Funding to keep WoRMS going currently is provided through the LifeWatch project. WoRMS constitutes a major contribution to the LifeWatch Taxonomic Backbone.

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