GeoKur Project
Curation and quality assurance of environmental research data for the use case of global land use data
Kuration und Qualitätssicherung von Geodaten in der Umweltforschung am Beispiel globaler Landnutzungsdaten
Most Earth System Science (ESS) research projects are data driven and/or produce data sets as main results. The BMBF project GeoKur aims to support the curation and quality assurance already during the research process and not only when the research data are finally published. The actions and developments include approaches for
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The research objectives of GeoKur throughout the life cycle of research data
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Therefore, existing standards and best practices are evaluated and integrated and finally tested and implemented in a comprehensive proof-of-concept using the example of global land-use dynamics data.
These time series are not only relevant for many sub-fields of the environmental and sustainability-related sciences (e.g. food production, biodiversity conservation, water and resource availability, economic development), but also represent characteristic challenges for data curation, quality assurance and the provision of a consistent data basis for environmental research. The recommendations and guidelines, developed in GeoKur will be provided as lightweight tutorials, but also as transferable open source software tools. All data and software products of GeoKur will be made available to the research community.
Major outcomes of the GeoKur project are published on Zenodo, on GitHub, and on GitLab.
If you are interested in joint work on data quality, provenance, geo-dashboards, data management plans or research data infrastructures, do not hesitate to contact us.
Duration:
The project started on 1 June 2019 and will run for 3 years.
Grant agreement no:
16QK04A