Digital meets Culture https://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/heritage-showcases/eudat/eudat-project-the-vision-of-a-collaborative-data-infrastructure/ Export date: Wed Apr 24 22:53:03 2024 / +0000 GMT |
EUDAT project, the vision of a Collaborative Data InfrastructureAiming to contribute to the production of a Collaborative Data Infrastructure driven by researchers' needs, EUDAT project is coordinated by CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland, and co-funded by the European Commission's Framework Programme 7. The EUDAT consortium includes representatives from each stage of the process that delivers scientific knowledge to researchers, citizens, industry and also to society as a whole. The consortium comprises 26 European partners, including data centers and technology providers, along with research communities and funding agencies from 13 countries, who are working together to deliver a Collaborative Data Infrastructure that can sustainably meet researchers' needs. The EUDAT vision is in fact to support a Collaborative Data Infrastructure which will allow researchers to share data within and between communities and enable them to carry out their research effectively. The mission is:
“EUDAT fills an important gap in the current European e-Infrastructure landscape,” said Dr. Kimmo Koski, CSC Managing Director and EUDAT Project Coordinator. “We are developing a generic infrastructure for scientific data management that can used by a diversity of research communities and existing infrastructures.” The EUDAT consortium provides multidisciplinary collaboration, being represented in it different areas of research: linguistics, earth sciences, climate sciences, environmental sciences, and biological and medical sciences. Other communities have joined EUDAT as associate members, representing 15 research disciplines across all major fields of science. EUDAT Scientific Coordinator Peter Wittenburg, from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen, the Netherlands, said EUDAT opens considerable new opportunities for research communities. “Beyond offering common services such as data hosting and preservation, EUDAT is paving the way towards integrated and interoperable access to data and, in doing so, facilitates new science and allows efficient knowledge creation,” said Wittenburg. “It is this double opportunity that makes the EUDAT initiative so interesting for research communities and infrastructures.” Partners: |