Data Management Coastal Research (Department KCD)

The “Data Management Coastal Research” department operates theHelmholtz Coastal Data Center (HCDC) and is the central contact point for data collected by coastal researchers. We manage data from observatories, ship campaigns, spaceborne earth observation and from numerical models. We publish this data for the scientific community and for the general public in the formats agreed upon by the various user groups. The department supports scientists in data management as well as by developing and providing tools and services. We support data management processes from data collection to making the data available in the long term.

TheHCDC develops comprehensive data and information infrastructures, which, with their wealth of solutions, are part of the Helmholtz initiative for information infrastructures (DataHub/MareHub). The HCDC infrastructure and our products are developed by us and operated together with colleagues from the IT department. Our infrastructures at HCDC provide the connection to national and international research data infrastructures, such as NFDI and EOSC. We are strongly interconnected within the Helmholtz Association as well as in national initiatives such as the German Marine Research Alliance(DAM) and the National Research Data Infrastructure(NFDI4Earth) and are constantly refining our systems.

We support the Hereon scientists throughout the entire data life cycle from planning to collection, evaluation, and archiving, to the publication of their data. We provide tools to edit and share data online with colleagues and project partners and publish research data interactively to the general public.

We are consistently working towards the goal of making data FAIR and making it visible to the public. FAIR stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. To achieve this goal, we are intensively involved in collaborations to further develop and implement metadata standards.

Data management

Metadata

Web applications

We are actively involved in a variety of initiatives and projects that foster coastal research and generate significant impact in the field of Earth and Environment. Learn more about our contributions and collaborations with a click on the tiles.

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HMG NetCDF

Further projects and initiatives

We manage a comprehensive range of data types, including campaign data, model data, and sensor data. With a click on the tiles, you gain an overview of these data types and their applications.

Campaign data

Model data

Sensor data

We develop, operate, and maintain Geographical Information Systems and applications with our GeoHub and orchestrate many public web applications hosted on our Kubernetes cluster. Additionally, we establish secure data transfer protocols from research vessels and observatories and manage a data portal with comprehensive data search capabilities.