Helmholtz Coastal Data Center

Data: capture, process, archive and disseminate

Coastal research generates data and information of the coastal zone and its fascinating environment. The Helmholtz Coastal Data Center (HCDC) offers a digital infrastructure to capture, process, archive and disseminate observation and model data, as well as for communicating research results of scientists.

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HCDC is part of the DataHub

The DataHub has been established as the foundation for open and FAIR research data management (RDM) within the joint research program. The DataHub is designed as a distributed infrastructure for research data. Each center manages its data locally, but all can provide their data in standardized services and formats. Based on the Sensor Data Infrastructure (SDI) implemented in each involved Helmholtz center, cross-center harvesting is possible. This is how we get data from the research field Earth & Environment (E&E) via the single access point of theEarth Data Portal.

Enter the Earth Data Portal To the DataHub initiative page of the Department of Data Management Coastal Research

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Via the DataHub infrastructure, we integrate local solutions from the centers into a central access point for Earth & Environmental data (E&E). (Image: HCDC)

Infrastructure and workflows

The HCDC infrastructure is a comprehensive data and information structure that complies with general standards. We cooperate and conceputalize workflows with other data centres and data structures of the Helmholtz Association, the German Alliance for Marine Research (DAM) and theNFDI4Earth consortium in the national research data infrastructure.

The HCDC is operated by the Department of Data Management Coastal Research.

Information

Here you find scientifically sound information products of various research foci. They explain important scientific topics, like for example emerging contaminants, and support government, administration and business in their efforts to adapt to climate change.

Data

The Helmholtz Coastal Data Center provides access to research data, maps and products of the research area Earth and Environment at Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon. Besides portals for the download of data, you can find services and digital maps to directly access the research data.

Tools

A series of tools let the user explore data, plan campaigns and discover characteristics of the North Sea. All tools are interactive.

Contact

Ulrike Kleeberg

Head of HCDC

Institute of Carbon Cycles/ Department Data Management Coastal Research

Phone: +49 (0)4152 87-1583

E-mail contact

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