Data Management
Due to the decentralized and heterogeneous nature of the MOSES facility, a decentralized data management architecture was developed in which the participating institutions act as data providers. The data policy governs the sharing of data and enables open access to it in accordance with the FAIR principles. Published datasets from the MOSES campaigns and thematic search functions are accessible via the Earth Data Portal, the central metadata portal of the Helmholtz research field “Earth and Environment.”
RDMO Earth-Sensor provides the Earth sciences community with a ready-to-use RDMO catalog for creating DMPs for sensor-based research projects or monitoring activities. The RDMO is linked via APIs to existing sensor management systems such as SMS and O2A, enabling direct and seamless integration of sensor metadata. Export functions are currently being developed to extend metadata integration to the final data publication stage and, consequently, to inclusion in metadata portals.
The Research Data Management Organizer (RDMO) “Earth-Sensor” is currently being developed to support research activities across various scientific disciplines in the planning, implementation, and management of all tasks related to research data management. The Earth-Sensor RDMO catalog offers a publicly accessible, FAIR-compliant, user-friendly, and interoperable solution for creating high-quality Data Management Plans (DMPs) and supports collaborative workflows for exchanging observation-based metadata between different institutions. It is being developed by the MOSES data management team in collaboration with DMP4NFDI and NFDI4Earth, which hosts the Earth-Sensor RDMO.