Publication of Environmental Data

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Andreas V. Hense; Professor Dr. Andreas N. Hense; Dr. Michael Lautenschlager
• Subject Area: Atmospheric Science
• Term: from 2009 to 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 99939390

Publication and long term archival of observational data in the field of environmental sciences is a challenging topic of today's eScience research. The amount of effort that goes into technical and scientific quality assurance prior to publication is considerable and might well turn out to be a barrier to data publication.This project's goal is to lower the amount of manual effort and, at the same time, increase data quality in the process of submitting observational data for publication - in this case meteorological observational data. This goal is divided into the following subgoals:1. Establish a standard procedure for the publication of observational data in the area of meteorology including quality information.2. Develop a workflow system for the automatisation of the publication process.3. Make the procedure usable for environmental sciences in general.4. Integration of the procedure into an existing central data repository for meteorology (CERA data base at the World Data Center for Climate). The partners in this project are 1. Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (www.inf.h-brs.de/Hense)2. Meteorologisches Institut Universität Bonn (www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/mitarbeiter/AHense)3. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg (www.mpimet.mpg.de)

• DFG Programme: Research data and software (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)