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Description
The Helmholtz Coastal Data Center (HCDC) operates and maintains the GeoHub, a data portal enabling Hereon scientists to share information internally, with external scientists and the public. It hosts data products, exposed through OGC-compliant endpoints and web applications such as maps, dashboards, and data-centric websites.
In the context of increasing pressures on coastal and climate systems, the GeoHub contributes to scientific collaboration and informed decision-making by facilitating easy access to crucial environmental data.
The smooth operation of this data portal and its underlying infrastructure requires more than monitoring uptime. End-to-end observability includes assessing data and metadata quality, controlling ingestion pipelines, and ensuring access to responsive endpoints and reliable visualisations. These aspects are increasingly important as data are consumed not only by scientists and applications, but also by automated workflows and AI-based systems.
Ongoing developments in creating Digital Twin products and AI applications for coastal and climate science increase demands on infrastructure, while simultaneously requiring AI-ready data that are consistent, discoverable, and machine-readable.
In this poster, we present our approach to futureproofing the GeoHub, ensuring the availability and reliability of our data infrastructure and discuss improvements to meet continuously increasing demands.