How EUDAT services can make a difference in the environmental research landscape sara Thu, 11/26/2015 - 09:40 Johannes Peterseil is the Deputy Head of the Department of Ecosystem Research & Environmental Information Management at the Environment Agency Austria (Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Austria) and leads the data management team within the department. Johannes is also the current lead of the Expert Panel on Information Management in the European Long-term Ecosystem Research Network (LTER-Europe). The panel is working on the development of the data infrastructure for LTER-Europe and their main job is to coordinate a multi-national team working on this issue. The requirements for this infrastructure have been defined by the research community within LTER-Europe. This has led to the implementation work, which is being funded by a number of projects on a European scale, including EUDAT. Within the Environment Agency Austria, the team working on this topic is composed of biologists and information technology (IT) experts addressing the interface between data provision and data usage. EUDAT recently interviewed Johannes to find out how LTER-Europe will be using the EUDAT data management services to help establish the LTER-Europe infrastructure.

EUDAT Glues Virtual Physiological Human Framework Together

VPH (http://vph-portal.eu) was funded by the European Union (EU) with the goal of making collaborative investigation of the human body possible across all the relevant scales (from the level of molecules through cells and organs to the whole body). VPH is currently using EUDAT services to store data safely and to move it from where it is stored to the supercomputer resources where complex calculations are performed. More specifically, VPH is using B2SAFE to ingest VPH data sets into EUDAT resources for preservation purposes, and also to replicate of our data across multiple EUDAT nodes in order to make it easier to access the data and also make it safer (in case one copy of a particular set of data is lost or damaged).

Dutch data delights with DANS

René van Horik is based in The Hague where he is the EUDAT project coordinator at the Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) institute, which is part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). René is coordinating the EUDAT training programme and in this article he introduces us to DANS and its mission.
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