SEND Earth Data: NFDI4Earth Supports Data Security in Earth System Sciences    

NFDI4Earth is developing a strategy for the long-term preservation of valuable research data from Earth System Sciences (ESS). The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the collaborative project "Secure Endangered Earth Data - SEND Earth Data" over the next 18 months. The project focuses on safeguarding at-risk datasets to ensure their long-term availability and on developing practical measures for data security across all areas of ESS. It also aims to produce guidelines for resilient data infrastructures, formulate legal recommendations, and design a strategic roadmap for long-term data sovereignty. SEND Earth Data makes a significant contribution to securing scientific data for climate, environmental, biodiversity and solid Earth research, providing an essential basis for analyses, model development, and simulations of future scenarios. 

The project builds on the existing structures of NFDI4Earth and will introduce a permanent national daisy  chain of repositories for data resilience among the project partners, according to their scientific expertise -TU Dresden (TUD), the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), the Senckenberg Society for Natural Research, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). This will enable the rapid safeguarding of endangered datasets, close gaps in data processing, strengthen collaboration between national initiatives, and strategically embed them in the European and international landscape.