Workpackage 7

„Common Data Policies and Standards“ (cross-cutting activities)

"Connecting Research Infrastructures in the Environmental Field Across the Atlantic "

Describing the baseline • What has been the main drivers that motivated your engagement in COOPEUS?

• Previous cooperation with Emerging research infrastructures in Europe

(EMSO, SIOS and LIFEWATCH). Lessons learned: • Distributed systems are tricky • Domain concepts are worth to look at • Harmonisation required

• Access to environmental data still a key issue (INSPIRE, Aarhus Convention etc.)

Describing the baseline • How was the situation before COOPEUS in regard to data exchange and

coordination across the Atlantic? • Heterogenous infrastructures • Differing development status (roadmaps) • Many involved scientific and data domains • Little cross-discipline (knowedge) exchange • Some cross-atlantic exchange • Big Chaos ;)

RI Platform

Describe the major Scient./Tech./Collab. Achievements • COOPEUS approach: base line harmonisation

• Share infrastructure ‘architecture’ information • Identify core standards • Harmonize policies

In EU terms: A description of the main S&T results/ foreground

Describe the major Scient./Tech./Collab. Achievements Status quo assessment • Objective 1: Identify standardization level • Workshops & questionnaire • Results:

• Differing development status • But many communalities • Metadata: good availability & accessibility, comparable standards • Data: good availability but access restrictions, good standardisation level

Metadata catalogue

In EU terms: A description of the main S&T results/ foreground

Describe the major Scient./Tech./Collab. Achievements Joint core data and IPR policy • Objective 1: Harmonize policies • Workshops and meetings • Results:

• COOPEUS data sharing principles • Joint core data and IPR policy

In EU terms: A description of the main S&T results/ foreground

Describe the major Scient./Tech./Collab. Achievements Definition of core standards:

Metadata:

•Many communalities

•XML, ASCII

•Dublin Core, ISO

Metadata representation Metadata format Metadata interface

ASCII

XML

JSON

Dublin Core

ISO 19115 DIF

OAI-PMH CS-W

Open Search

EISCAT x MIT Haystack x ICOS x planned

NEON x x

EMSO x x x x planned planned x

OOI x x planned

EPOS x planned x EarthScope-IRIS x

UNAVCO EarthScope x x x x LIFEWATCH x x x x x x DataONE x x

Comment GEOSS Status pending pending pending pending pending pending

In EU terms: A description of the main S&T results/ foreground

Describe the major Scient./Tech./Collab. Achievements Definition of core standards:

Data:

•Many communalities

•ASCII, NetCDF

Data formats ASCII NetCDF HDF5 SEED/miniSEED EISCAT x x x MIT Haystack x planned x ICOS x NEON x EMSO x x planned

OOI x EPOS x x EarthScope-IRIS x x x

UNAVCO EarthScope x x x LIFEWATCH x x x DataONE Comment as HDF-EOS not listed

GEOSS Status pending pending

In EU terms: A description of the main S&T results/ foreground

Describe the major Scient./Tech./Collab. Achievements PIDs for open time series & dynamic data work shops, meetings in cooperation with EUDAT & ENVRI white paper publication in ‘Earth Science Informatics’ continuation and implementation in THOR project

Describe the major Scient./Tech./Collab. Achievements COOPEUS interoperability maturity index:

Biodiversity

Describe the major Scient./Tech./Collab. Achievements Cooperation with GEOSS: •Use GEOSS CSR to improve transparency of capabilities among Ris •Provide information on the available resources and services of each RI •Identify common standards and interfaces •Raise visibility of RIs by publishing services and data via GEOSS •Test the data broker concept

In EU terms: A description of the main S&T results/ foreground

Describe the major Achievements – The Broader perspective (all the achievements that is not directly linked to specific tasks) • Lessons learned:

• Standardisation & harmonisation level among COOPEUS RI is higher then expected ! • But still a long way to go… • Policies still are a major issue, open access rules need international harmonisation

(e.g. a global INSPIRE) • International RI cooperation needs a platform (GEOSS, RDA) • Best fit with GEOSS, cooperation should be continued

• Registries are a key instrument ! • ‘Purpose free’ data harmonisation vs. Use case scenarios (too little scientific benefit?)

In EU terms: The potential impact and the main dissemination activities and exploitation of results

How will the outcome of COOPEUS affect the future Collaborative in your scientific field ? • What is the expected Short-term/long term benefits of the COOPEUS activities?

• Low fruit, core standard approach to be applied in other projects (FixO3, AtlantOS etc) • COOPEUS data policy is an excellent template!

• Continuation of work within ENVRI+ • Apply COOPEUS policy template in projects (see above) • Cooperation with GEOSS

In EU terms: The potential impact and the main dissemination activities and exploitation of results

How will you disseminate outcome of COOPEUS? • Account for your strategy /plans for dissemination of COOPEUS achievements

• Last deliverable: ‘joint standardisation hand book’

• Will be a summary of lessons learned an best practices • Good potential for a publication (e.g. CODATA journal or ESSI)

• Disseminate and continue COOPEUS work in the ENVRI+ wider community

In EU terms: The potential impact and the main dissemination activities and exploitation of results

Continuation of COOPEUS-like activities ? • Have the achievements of COOPEUS fostered sustainable improvement of the transatlantic

Collaborations ? • Yes, with respect to data exchange harmonisation:

• common language among data domains • transparency of capabilities (incl known unknowns) • Identification of potential interfaces

Highlights/Prioritization :

RI Platform

• More transparency among RIs • Core standards identified • Common data policy • Platform requirements identified

Funding sources: EC - FP7 project Grant no: 312118 NSF SAVI grant no. 1321595

Acknowledgements

COOPEUS joint standardisation handbook

• Introduction

• Tackling heterogeneity: the RI data management landscape

• Barriers, policies and legal frameworks

• The COOPEUS minimum requirements strategy

• Interoperability maturity criteria and online assessment

• Letting others know: using registries to publish used standards and offered services

• Closing gaps: The brokerage approach

• Sharing data