Making data a first class scientific output : data citation and publication by NERC's Environmental Data Centres

The NERC Science Information Strategy Data Citation and Publication project aims to develop and formalise a method for formally citing and publishing the datasets stored in its environmental data centres. It is believed that this will act as an incentive for scientists, who often invest a great deal of effort in creating datasets, to submit their data to a suitable data repository where it can properly be archived and curated. Data citation and publication will also provide a mechanism for data producers to receive credit for their work, thereby encouraging them to share their data more freely

D2.2 – Environmental Data Infrastructures: Services Analysis Report

The Interdisciplinary Data Discovery and Access Service (IDDAS) will be one of the components of the FAIR-EASE (FE) technical framework that will provide users with an easy and FAIR service for discovery and access to multidisciplinary and aggregated data sets as managed and provided by a range of existing environmental data infrastructures. The federation of data resources should facilitate the sharing of multi-disciplinary datasets with users, with the FE data lake, and allow for interaction with the Earth Analytic Lab (EAL) that will grant users access to analytical and visualisation services and applications. In D2.1 - Environmental Data Infrastructures: Services Description Report, 19 of these data infrastructures have been described, in particular with a focus on their data discovery and access mechanisms. As a follow-up, this deliverable D2.2 - Environmental Data Infrastructures: Services Analysis Report describes the available data access mechanisms of the data infrastructures and includes an analysis of the extent to which these are already fit for purpose or require further developments