Background
The freshwater data publication efforts of this project will focus on:
- freshwater research data generated by Belgian researchers
- species occurrence data and supporting environmental data
- long series of homogeneous data
- microbial biodiversity data
- data from both project partners and external data holders
Key project activities include:
- documenting existing datasets
- improving data discoverability by linking dataset info to a freshwater specific multilingual thesaurus
- standardising datasets and publishing them on-line along with descriptive (meta)data papers
- preforming synthetic analyses at various scales
- ensuring the sustainability of freshwater data management and data publication
- exploring future data mobilisation, digitisation and recovery activities
- sharing lessons learned through exchanges during workshops and a project white paper
We plan to organise a series of workshops on the following topics:
- information session on data publication for data holders
- microbial ecology data management
- establishing and improving freshwater thesauri and ontologies
- final conference for a broad audience during which we plan to present lessons learned, test case results and motivate participants to publish their data