Paper Info
Title
The EnviDat Concept for an Institutional Environmental Data Portal
Abstract
EnviDat is the environmental data portal developed by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. The strategic initiative EnviDat highlights the importance WSL lays on Research Data Management (RDM) at the institutional level and demonstrates the commitment to accessible research data in order to advance environmental science. EnviDat focuses on registering and publishing environmental data sets and provides unified and efficient access to the WSL’s comprehensive reservoir of environmental monitoring and research data. Research data management is organized in a decentralized manner where the responsibility to curate research data remains with the experts and the original data providers. EnviDat supports data producers and data users in registration, documentation, storage, publication, search and retrieval of a wide range of heterogeneous data sets from the environmental domain. Innovative features include (i) a flexible, three-layer metadata schema, (ii) an additive data discovery model that considers spatial data and (iii) a DataCRediT mechanism designed for specifying data authorship. In addition, the overall user-friendly appearance in EnviDat provides an important opportunity for showcasing WSL research activities and results. The EnviDat portal builds on a conceptual system consisting of a core system, a set of guiding principles and a number of key services. Its development closely follows the conceptual framework, being guided by principles towards the ultimate goal of providing useful services for researchers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.5334/dsj-2018-028
Data Sci. J.
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
17
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ionuț Iosifescu Enescu100.34
Gian-Kasper Plattner200.34
Lucia Espona Pernas300.34
Dominik Haas-Artho400.34
Sandro Bischof500.34
Michael Lehning6264.86
Konrad Steffen700.68