Poster
In session
Postersession No. 1
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Sept. 3, 2025,
15:45 –
16:30
Exact timing:
15:45 –
16:30
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
- GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
- Umweltbundesamt
- Alfred-Wegener-Institut - Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
The proliferation of digital portals for accessing environmental and geoscientific data has significantly enhanced the ability of researchers, policymakers, and the public to retrieve and utilize critical information.
Furthermore, metadata content can be harvested, which brings the added value that information is collected only once and then presented in different web presences. In this way, it is possible to tailor the presentation of metadata attributes to the relevant user groups - optimally presented according to their priorities.
The Earth Data Portal (https://earth-data.de/), as a collaborative effort of the Helmholtz centers of the research field Earth and Environment enables querying data from multiple repositories, particularly from the Helmholtz research centers.
In addition, umwelt.info (https://umwelt.info/de), operated by the German Environment Agency, offers a user-friendly interface of openly available environmental and nature protection data tailored for seamless access by the general public.
The respective metadata content, on the other hand, is certainly best presented on the website of the source repository.
This poster provides a general overview of the highlighted portals and delves into the specifics of their implementations, with a focus on the use of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs). PIDs play a crucial role in ensuring the long-term accessibility and citability of data, and the discussion will cover how each portal integrates PIDs to enhance data management and retrieval processes.
Ultimately, the goal is to weigh how extensively the content depth should be represented, i.e., how granular the metadata attributes should be displayed, and what advantages an overarching perspective offers.
This poster might be a suitable addition to the collaboration coffee “Don’t let your data be a needle in a haystack – efficient metadata curation for optimal findability”, see:
https://dss2025.hereon.de/submissions/78
The best way to do this is to run a parallel demo of the portals on a laptop or tablet.