Speaker
Description
Emanuel Soeding, Stanislav Malinovschii (GEMAR), Andrea Poersch (GFZ Potsdam), Yousef Razeghi (UFZ Leipzig), Dorothee Kottmeier (AWI Bremerhaven)
The interconnectivity of existing data infrastructures (DIS) across national and international initiatives (e.g. NFDI, EOSC and others) is an important goal to create a common interoperable data space. To achieve this, it is critical to harmonize the existing methods and concepts of research data collection among the DIS and along the FAIR principles.
Within the Helmholtz Association we maintain more than 50 active data infrastructures in the field of Earth and Environment. Procedures of data handling, documentation and storage are hardly coordinated within Helmholtz, even less so within the larger community. To find out about the state of our infrastructures, the different approaches in data management procedures, technical capabilities, and concepts, we conducted a survey among all Helmholtz DIS. The questions asked were related to their roles in the community, self-perception, quality control, curation, technology interfaces, data re-use and demands.
Here we shed some some light on lessons and consequences for HMC strategies and what kind of recommendations may improve the state of our data infrastructures.
