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The EPOS multi-disciplinary Data Portal for integrated access to solid Earth science datasets.

Daniele Bailo¹, Rossana Paciello², Jan Michalek³

¹Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy. daniele.bailo@ingv.it.

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Summary

The European Plate Observing System (EPOS) integrates European solid Earth science infrastructures via a data portal. This platform enhances data sharing and reuse across disciplines, promoting scientific advancement and societal benefit.

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Area of Science:

Solid Earth science
Geosciences
Environmental science

Background:

The European Plate Observing System (EPOS) is a long-term initiative to integrate European solid Earth science research infrastructures.
Existing data infrastructures were fragmented, hindering multidisciplinary research and data accessibility.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe the governance, community building, and technical strategies for creating the EPOS Data Portal.
To outline the portal's features for integrating diverse data sources and promoting FAIR data principles.

Main Methods:

Development of a multidisciplinary, user-oriented platform (EPOS Data Portal).
Implementation of rich metadata, service-driven data provision, and semantic technologies.
Community engagement and governance frameworks for data integration.

Main Results:

Successful aggregation of approximately 250 data sources from over ten scientific communities.
Establishment of a sustainable platform facilitating data integration, access, use, and re-use.
Identification of key challenges and successful community engagement strategies.

Conclusions:

The EPOS Data Portal provides a robust framework for multidisciplinary solid Earth science data integration.
The portal's architecture and community engagement foster data sharing and scientific collaboration.
Future work will expand functionalities and release the portal as open-source software.