2Participate
engages with the community as broadly as possible, from students to
professionals and service providers to top scientists through four interrelated
measures: Pilot studies, an Incubator Lab, educational materials and resources,
and establishing an NFDI4Earth Academy. These measures guarantee that the
development of NFDI4Earth is entirely driven by the community’s needs and
requirements and takes into consideration that the uptake of FAIR principles
happens at different speeds.
2Participate aims to equally attract those
practitioners and researchers who may, for the first time, work on making their
data interoperable and accessible, as well as those who aim to couple the
latest data analytics tools to a wide array of heterogeneous data sources and
explore novel avenues of science. In this spirit, we attract all sub-branches
in the Earth system sciences. 2Participate also aims to leverage novel
approaches, methods, and technical solutions for ingesting research data into
the scientific workflow. 2Participate identifies and tests essential building
blocks for a sustainable research data infrastructure that is prepared to
integrate the full workflow from data collection all the way down to data
exploration across domains so that reproducible analyses become possible and
natural. Active scouting for novel developments is likewise an essential
element via the Incubator Lab. It is therefore no coincidence that 2Participate
is also responsible for education: on the one hand, the next generation of
Earth system researchers and practitioners should be prepared to deal with the NFDI4Earth
infrastructures; on the other hand, this 2Participate supports integration of
the latest developments in their research activities. Hence, we need to enable
the learning fundamental data management and exploitation concepts and enable
future researchers to couple any relevant set of data (streams) to high-end
analytic tools.
With this big picture in mind, 2Participate invites the
community to explore research paths that were not anticipated by the time data
were created. This requires that new participants are flexibly able to be
integrated into the NFDI4Earth team via the open calls along the entire life of
the project. This element is essential for both challenging, but also
attracting Earth scientists and practitioners.