The Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) is the largest university in the federal state Saxony and is one of eleven German universities that were identified as an "excellence university". The Chair of Geoinformatics (TUD-GI) acts cross-cutting at the Department of Geosciences, within the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at TUD. The TUD-GI team currently consists of seven research associates and post-doc researchers from different disciplines (Geodesy, Geography, Geoinformatics, Informatics). Research and Education focuses on various topics within Geoinformation Science and here especially on Geoinformation Infrastructures and Services for Spatio-Temporal Modelling. TUD-GI is an associate partner of the 52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software. The TUD-GI team successfully managed and co-managed national and international third party funded research projects.
As central scientific institution of the TU Dresden, the Centre for Information Services and High Performance Computing (TUD-ZIH) is responsible for the communication infrastructure of the University, and operates the central IT infrastructure, including services and servers. In addition, with its interdisciplinary orientation, ZIH supports other departments and institutions in their research and education for all matters related to information technology and computer science. TUD-ZIH is part of the joint Service Centre Research Data at TUD that offers a comprehensive consulting service for the management of research data. This service is provided in collaboration with the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) as well as the Institute of Intellectual Property Competition and Media Law (IGEWeM). For research data publication and long term archiving TUD-ZIH provides the Open Access Repository and Archive (OpARA).
The Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) researches the complex interactions between mankind and environment. Thereby it connects experimental- and field research as well as secondary data based research from different domains of land use, water management and chemistry with methods of modelling, visualization and social sciences. The data and information used and generated in that processes are heterogeneous. To support the researchers first services, such as the data management and research portal of the UFZ, have been established. However, a holistic research data management covering the whole data lifecycle and in particular common obligatory rules for quality control of environmental research data is not established yet. The GeoKur project contributes to this.
The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) is the largest biodiversity research center worldwide. It has been established by the Universities Leipzig, Halle-Saale and Jena and the UFZ. iDiv is nationally as well as internationally an important actor in the generation and management of environmental reference data. iDiv researchers and projects develop and maintain globally relevant and often-used data sets for different sub-domains of biodiversity research and neighboring disciplines. These data sets cover themes like vegetation, species properties and distribution, ecosystem functions and services, or land use. iDiv furthermore acts as central hub and meeting point for national and international networks of environmental data producers, managers and users, e.g., by regularly hosting IPBES workshops on scenario modelling and, in particular, the current secretariat of the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON). GEO BON coordinates the conceptual and technical development of global geodata products on Essential Variables in the biodiversity domain and advises respective monitoring programs worldwide.
TUD-GI is the project coordinator of GeoKur. Further, TUD-GI works on the consolidation of quality assurance and metadata standards of geodata. Together with TUD-ZIH it is responsible for the implementation of the concepts and the development of the corresponding software tools. Therefore, UFZ and iDiv mainly support the requirements definition and the development of use cases in the context of environmental research and the development of global land use datasets for the research purposes. They validate the GeoKur results for the development of global land use datasets and evaluate the data as part of the international outreach activities with the associated researchers. TUD-ZIH supports the outreach activities in the relevant national and international organizations for research data management (e.g. DINI, RDA) and uses the GeoKur developments for the research data management services at TU Dresden. The results of GeoKur shall also provide inputs into the emerging German National Research Infrastructure, in particular for the domains of biodiversity and environmental research.
Geokur is closely collaborating with the Land Use Change Knowledge Integration Network (LUCKINet). LUCKINet is a network of scientists working on the development of data products on multiple land-use variables that are all mutually consistent and interoperable.
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