HR: 13:55h
AN: IN43C-02 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: World Data Center Cluster "Earth System Research" - An Approach for a Common Data Infrastructure in Geosciences
AU: * Lautenschlager, M
EM: lautenschlager@dkrz.de
AF: WDC Climate, Max-Planck-Institut fuer WDC Climate, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie, Bundesstrasse 53, Hamburg, D-20146 Germany
AU: Diepenbroek, M
EM: mdiepenbroek@pangaea.de
AF: Zentrum fuer Marine Umweltwissenschaften, Leonener Strasse, Bremen, D-28359 Germany
AU: Grobe, H
EM: hgrobe@awi-bremerhaven.de
AF: Alfred-Wegener-Institut fuer Polar- und Meeresforschung, Columbusstrasse, Bremerhaven, D-27568 Germany
AU: Klump, J
EM: jens.klump@gfz-potsdam.de
AF: GeoForschungszentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, D-14473 Germany
AU: Paliouras, E
EM: eleni.paliouras@dlr.de
AF: Deutsches Luft- und Raumfahrtzentrum Oberpfaffenhofen, Muenchner Strasse 20, Oberpfaffenhofen, D-82234 Germany
AB: The German WDC Cluster Earth System Research has been founded in 2003 and is build from three WDCs and one candidate: WDC-C - World Data Center for Climate (MPI-M, Hamburg) WDC-MARE - World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (AWI, MARUM) WDC-RSAT - World Data Center for Remote Sensing (DFD/DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen) WDC-TERRA - World Data Center of the Lithosphere (candidate) (GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam) The WDC cluster has identified information management challenges in geo-scientific research. There are many problems and issues faced by the geo-scientific research community when it comes to managing data and information: Lack of adequate facilities and resources for long-term archiving: the cost of archiving data, especially large sets, in systems where the data is easily retrieved, is very often prohibitive Data set publication: the science related to the production of basic data is often not easily recognized as publishable work with the same merits as information derived from basic data Interdisciplinary audience for geo-scientific data: Effective understanding of the whole earth relies on better understanding of the interaction of multiple earth systems. In order to do this, wider and more diverse audiences, especially interdisciplinary science teams, should have a facilitated appreciation of the applicable data sets which are available. The partners in the WDC cluster start cooperation within the frame of national research projects but international cooperation with other WDCs and long-term archives for geo-scientific data is required especially with respect to networking, data sharing and data publication.
DE: 6699 General or miscellaneous
DE: 9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings)
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005