The selected use cases demonstrate how at-risk datasets and services can be safeguarded, backed up and integrated into sustainable research data infrastructures. They cover diverse fields, including geodesy, seismology, biodiversity, environmental health, and oceanography.
Establishes a resilient European backup facility at GFZ to preserve, combine, and distribute high-precision GNSS satellite orbit and clock products. This ensures continuity of critical positioning, geodetic, and timing services if the existing NASA/CDDIS infrastructure becomes unavailable.
Responsible Insitutions: GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, NASA/Crustal Dynamics Data Information System
Safeguards historical earthquake
catalogs and seismic waveform data from the Carpathian region in Ukraine, which
are at risk of permanent loss due to the ongoing war and infrastructure
instability. The data will be transferred to GFZ, quality-checked, documented,
and made accessible through its GEOFON repository for long-term scientific use.
Responsible Insitutions: GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Institute of Geophysics of the National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine)
Safeguards critical ocean carbon and acidification data hosted by NOAA against potential loss of access due to budget cuts, institutional changes, or operational disruptions. Through redundant long-term storage at GEOMAR, including preserved metadata and data integrity checks, the data will remain accessible, reusable, and available for global ocean and climate research.
Responsible Insitutions: GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Protects critical biodiversity
and environmental monitoring data from the Socotra Archipelago and Al-Heswah
Reserve against physical damage and political instability caused by the ongoing
conflict in Yemen. Through secure mirroring in Senckenberg's digital
infrastructure, the data will remain preserved, accessible, and reusable for
global conservation research.
Responsible Insitutions: Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
Safeguards camera-trap and
passive acoustic monitoring data collected by the Frankfurt Zoological Society
in the Polesie region of Ukraine, which are threatened by the ongoing conflict.
The data will be migrated to Senckenberg's WildLIVE platform, ensuring secure
preservation and enabling future ecological research, biodiversity monitoring,
and integration into European research infrastructures.
Responsible Insitutions: Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
Preserves and integrates
selected U.S. EPA toxicology and ecotoxicology databases, including ToxRefDB,
invitroDB/ ToxCast, ToxValDB, and ECOTOX DB, into UFZ's existing knowledge-graph
infrastructure. Beyond securing access, the use case harmonizes and semantically
links the data to improve their discoverability, interoperability, and reuse in
European environmental health research and regulatory science.
Responsible Insitutions: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Secures two major NCAR climate
simulation datasets, CESM2 Large Ensemble (LENS2) and MESACLIP, against
potential loss of access due to funding cuts and structural changes in U.S.
research institutions. DKRZ will provide long-term preservation, standardized
metadata, persistent identifiers, and cloud-optimized data formats to support
efficient analysis and future climate research.
Responsible Insitutions: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH
