September 26, 2019 Conference paper Open Access

ENVRI-FAIR - Interoperable environmental FAIR data and services for society, innovation and research

Petzold, Andreas; Asmi, Ari; Vermeulen, Alex; Pappalardo, Gelsomina; Bailo, Daniele; Schaap, Dick; M. Glaves, Helen; Bundke, Ulrich; Zhao, Zhiming

ENVRI-FAIR is a recently launched project of

the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program (EU H2020),

connecting the cluster of European Environmental Research

Infrastructures (ENVRI) to the European Open Science Cloud

(EOSC). The overarching goal of ENVRI-FAIR is that all

participating research infrastructures (RIs) will provide a set

of interoperable FAIR data services that enhance the efficiency

and productivity of researchers, support innovation, enable

data- and knowledge-based decisions and connect the ENVRI

cluster to the EOSC. This goal will be reached by: (1) defining

community policies and standards across all stages of the data

life cycle, aligned with the wider European policies and with

international developments; (2) creating for all participating

RIs sustainable, transparent and auditable data services for

each stage of the data life cycle, following the FAIR principles;

(3) implementing prototypes for testing pre-production

services at each RI, leading to a catalogue of prepared services;

(4) exposing the complete set of thematic data services and

tools of the ENVRI cluster to the EOSC catalogue of services.