Supporting Research and Operational Earth Science Portals through ROHub

Abstract

Earth science disciplines are increasingly producing large amounts of heterogeneous data that needs to be accessed, integrated and processed during the course of a research or operational process. In this setting, there is a growing need from earth scientists to collect and manage effectively these resources, including the data used, the methods applied, and the results produced. This is even more challenging if we consider i) the dynamic and collaborative nature of the earth science processes; ii) the interfaces typically used by scientists where they should be able to accomplish core management tasks with a minimal overhead. In this poster, we present our approach to address these challenges, which is based on research objects and on the associated technological support provided by ROHub platform. We show how ROHub is used as the underlying technology for supporting earth scientists work through different interfaces tailored to their communities needs and usage scenario.