Fostering Open Science at WSL with the EnviDat Environmental Data Portal

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.27211v1
Subject Areas
Data Science, Digital Libraries
Keywords
EnviDat, Open Science, Research Data Management, Data Sharing, Environmental Science
Copyright
© 2018 Iosifescu Enescu et al.
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Cite this article
Iosifescu Enescu I, Fraefel M, Plattner G, Espona-Pernas L, Haas-Artho D, Lehning M, Steffen K. 2018. Fostering Open Science at WSL with the EnviDat Environmental Data Portal. PeerJ Preprints 6:e27211v1

Abstract

EnviDat is the institutional research data portal of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape WSL. The portal is designed to provide solutions for efficient, unified and managed access to the WSL’s comprehensive reservoir of monitoring and research data, in accordance with the WSL data policy. Through EnviDat, WSL is fostering open science, making curated, quality-controlled, publication-ready research data accessible. Data producers can document author contributions for a particular data set through the EnviDat-DataCRediT taxonomy. The publication of research data sets can be complemented with additional digital resources, such as, e.g., supplementary documentation, processing software or detailed descriptions of code (i.e. as Jupyter Notebooks). The EnviDat Team is working towards generic solutions for enhancing open science, in line with WSL’s commitment to accessible research data.

Author Comment

This submission is intended for the OGRS 2018 Collection.

Supplemental Information

Figure 1: The EnviDat Homepage (September 2018)

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27211v1/supp-1

Figure 2: The EnviDat Datasets Page (September 2018)

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27211v1/supp-2

Figure 3: Example of Jupyter notebooks in EnviDat

DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27211v1/supp-3