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Project

SCIDIP-ES

Title Science Data Infrastructure for Preservation – Earth Science
Grant Agreement Number 283401
Funding Programmes FP7
Dates 31/08/2011 - 31/08/2014
Project URL http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/current-projects/scidip-es/
Scientific Domain e-Infrastructures
Activity Data infrastructures for e-Science
Action Line ICT-based e-Infrastructures
Transnational Access N/A
Type Of Project CP-CSA-INFRA-PP
Abstract The aim of this initiative is to address priorities a) and c) of the call INFRA-2011-1.2.2: Data infrastructures for e-Science. It is about delivering long-term preservation services as part of the data infrastructure for e-Science. We aim to deliver generic infrastructure services for science data preservation that address the persistent storage, access and management required by the call and to build on the experience of the ESA Earth Observation Long Term Data Preservation (LTDP) programme to favour the set-up of a European Framework for the long term preservation of Earth Science (ES) data through the definition of common preservation policies, the harmonization of metadata and semantics and the deployment of the generic infrastructure services in the ES domain. The generic services will build on the already proven research prototype services from the CASPAR project. We will evaluate and tune these services in depth, using Earth Science as pathfinder, and broadly but less deeply across other disciplines linked to the Alliance for Permanent Access (APA) and ESFRI clusters. Earth Science presents an enormous challenge to the providers of data-infrastructure because it is inherently a very broad and scattered domain with completely different instruments operated by different entities, which at the moment apply different data preservation policies or none at all. This work is important because it will allow our society to properly preserve the digitally encoded information on which we all depend, in particular Earth Science measurements which can never be repeated and yet on which a multitude of ecological, economic and political decisions must be based in the future. The generic services will allow all kinds of data to be usable by researchers from many different domains and will enable the cost for long-term usability across disciplines to be shared supporting the creation of strong business cases for the long term support of that data.
Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country)
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY, France
Partners
(Organisation name and Country)
CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES, France
ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA, Italy
STICHTING EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR PERMANENT ACCESS, Netherlands
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV, Germany
G.I.M. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT NV, Belgium
CAPGEMINI ITALIA SPA, Italy
FTK FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FÜR TELEKOMMUNIKATION E.V, Germany
FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS, Greece
ADVANCED COMPUTER SYSTEMS A.C.S. S.P.A., Italy
INCONTEC GMBH, Germany
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA, Italy
Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Italy
JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN GGMBH, Germany
TA Call Science Data Infrastructure for Preservation – Earth Science