The EPOS Multi-scale Laboratories TCS

Otto Lange (Utrecht University)

A Technical Perspective

CNRS | Montpellier | 12th of June 2019

Data services in the multi-scale laboratories community

A bird’s-eye view of EPOS

Data publications

Facility information

TNA

datasets

scientists

MSL TCS

epos

Supporting data publications in the MSL network

The basic problem

datasets

scientists

MSL TCS

epos

package

describe

store

disseminate

Supporting data publications in the MSL network

datasets

scientists

MSL TCS

epos

support

metadata

repository

catalogue

Supporting data publications in the MSL network

Collecting data

Choose a repository for

publication

• GFZ/(UU/CSIC/BGS/MagIC)

Construct data package for publication

• Formats, files, explanatory text

Describe the dataset with community metadata

• Metadata editor

• Include licensing information

Submit data package files and

metadata for editorial review

Publication with DOI (and

compliant metadata)

The data publication/dissemination process

Harvest metadata

Expose EPOS-DCAT-AP via

TCS Catalogue

Collect into ICS

Push metadata

Scenario B Scenario C

Push data & metadata

Scenario A

MSL Metadata Platform

Institutional Data repository

Generic Data repository

MSL Data Repository

MSL DataRepository

TCS MULTI-SCALE LABORATORIES SCIENTISTS

Analogue modelling of geologic processes

Paleomagnetic and magnetic data

Rock/melt physical properties

Geochemical & microscopy data

TCS Multi-scale laboratories catalog

Harvest metadata (ISO19115/EPOS-DCAT-AP) GCMD/TCS VOCABULARIES

ICS

An infrastructure for the whole lab community

GFZ REPO

TCS catalog (CKAN)

«multi-scale labs»

Analogue models on geologic processes

Property data of analogue modelling

materials [DDSS-003]

Analogue modellingresults [DDSS-004]

Rock and melt physical

properties

Rock and melt physical properties

data [DDSS-002]

Paleomagneticand magnetic

data

Paleomagnetic data [DDSS-006]

Magneticsusceptibility data

[DDSS-007]

Geochemical data

Geochemical data [DDSS-001]

ICS-C

UU REPO CSIC NERC MagIC

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Repositories

TCS InstitutionalNationalGeneric

• Published metadata directlyharvested into TCS catalogue

• Aware of TCS metadata• Metadata editor connected

Available

• API for metadata harvestinginto TCS catalogue

• Custom editor or template forgenerating TCS metadata

• Metadata editor forgenerating TCS metadata

• Metadata separately storedfor harvesting

M MagIC

User friendly metadata production:The GFZ Data Services metadata editor

• Status: fully operational

Use of standard vocabularies (INSPIRE, GCMD, ANDS).

Wherever needed, extended with context-sensitive additional keywords

http://pmd.gfz-potsdam.de/msl/

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Data publication landing page at GFZ Data Services

A “data-driven” community

• Sharing research data is good!

– not only because of data-reuse for the benefit of open science,

– also provides additional perspectives on

• publications

• facilities

• laboratories

• people

• research

• Sharing (meta-) data increases your visibility as a researcher or a lab!

Everything is with everything connected

through metadata

TCS Catalogue

https://epos-msl.uu.nl

The purpose of MSL data services

• Sharing data FAIR:

– Increase Findability

✓ Harmonized community metadata

– Increase Accessibility

✓ Sustainable storage at trusted repositories

– Increase Interoperability (future?)

– Increase Reusability

✓ Open (CC-based) licensing

• Make research and facilities visible

• Connecting labs and people

Describing facilities

http://ics-c.epos-ip.org

What you can do already today

• Publish your data and increase your findability

• Be(come) part of the multi-scale laboratories network

Thank you