Our Task Area 2 -
2Facilitate has two main aims: (1) to provide community support on all aspects
of FAIR data and related infrastructures in NFDI4Earth and (2) to advance new
technologies for FAIR data as best practice examples / templates.
Thus, 2Facilitate
offers a first port-of-call for all participants and community members to start
and/or continue their journey to FAIR data management in Earth System Sciences.
We provide a
OneStop4All to act as an initial visible contact point. In a
structured way, this web-based contact point provides basic information on the
general principles of FAIR data, e.g., how to find and access existing data
sets, how to contact existing repositories, how to take first steps in making
data FAIRer, and how to find other services provided by NFDI4Earth.
User requests going
beyond the basic requirements are routed to the
User Support Network Here, experts directly interact with the people
asking the questions. The experts also provide a bridge to the existing support
infrastructures of the relevant partners, including offers such as data
curation and data stewardship.
To demonstrate best
practices and foster the interaction between long-tail data and comprehensive
data sources, the other activities will closely interact with the OneStop4All and
User Support Network teams.
Governmental Data activities provide the wealth of data that
exists in governmental data bases and is strictly regulated by national and
international laws and standards.
Data in
Long-Term storage provides an additional sustainability
perspective that is also of interest for new comprehensive and long-tail data
sets. Thus, making long-term storage more accessible for use (data-in) and
re-use (data-out) is an aim.
Our
Advancing Tools measure provides a bracket to the best-practise
exploration of data in all sorts of repositories.
In close collaboration
with
2Participate, state-of-the-art solutions based on data cubes
and other emerging technologies are explored (e.g., creation of data cubes from
governmental data and analysing it in conjunction with other remote sensing
data).
You can find our task area reports and recommendations
on our
outcomes site
.
Are you interested in
collaborating with us? For general interest in NFDI4Earth, we are happy to hear
from you at the
coordination office
. For specific ideas related to TA2, please
contact the responsible persons for the different topics listed on the sub-pages.