2Facilitate

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.

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