Speakers
Description
The Earth System sciences are disciplines that generate tremendous and ever-growing amount of data in many heterogeneous forms. Thus, tools and frameworks to manage these data are becoming increasingly important in order to promote, foster, and safeguard the “FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship” [1]. The O2A data flow framework [2] presents a holistic approach to handle (meta-)data, from observation through analyses and archives. It offers solutions for metadata management, and for the collection, provision, monitoring, collaborative analysis/processing, exploration, and publication of research data. To ensure integrity, provenance, and interoperability, O2A makes use of standardised interfaces (e.g. STA, WMS, CSW), well-known persistant identifiers (ORCID, ROR, DOI, …), and facilitates the use of controlled vocabularies (like NERC, QUDT, AMETSOC). In addition to the graphical user interfaces, REST APIs enable machine interaction, ranging from private scripts to mobile apps. Hence, O2A allows flexible, time-saving, and sustainable working in a FAIR manner. In this talk, we would like to demonstrate the practical benefits it brings in the everyday work of scientists and data managers. We will explore how the O2A bagpipe is played and highlight some examples of its applications in practice.
[1] https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18
[2] https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-026-02204-9