General information
Quality assured time series of monitoring data from eLTER sites throughout the continent will be registered and uploaded into the central catalogue (CC) and, thereby, made available for Virtual Access (VA) through eLTER. Emphasis will be put on legacy data related to priority Standard Observation variables (Task 3.1). Site operators are partly beneficiaries, partly not. The former will be eligible for funding of the working time associated with e.g. formatting data and providing required metadata. In each country represented in eLTER, one beneficiary acts as National Coordinator (NC) who will oversee the collection of data from various sites in their country. Considering experiences and key findings of the H2020 eLTER Starting Communities concerning bottlenecks in VA and related data workflows caused by lacking training, the WP7 team will, in collaboration with WP5, conduct a series of regional trainings and provide online instructions via webcasts for site operators to explain not only the process of contributing to the eLTER CC, but also possible utilization of the eLTER services and their resulting benefits from the collaboration to achieve consortium wide contribution.
SOATM_027 Meteorology;
VARIABLES: air temperature (°C), air relative humidity (%), precipitation (mm), wind speed (m s-1), wind direction (°), surface air pressure (hPa)
SOBIO_017 Vegetation composition;
VARIABLES: scientific name of taxon (-), cover (%)
SOBIO_096 Surface water – Algae;
VARIABLES: chlorophyll a (mg m−3), phycocyanin (mg m−3), phycoerythrin (mg m−3; (used for: saltwater - standing, running waters))
SOHYD_004 Physical/chemical characteristics standing waters;
VARIABLES: water depth (m), water temperature (°C), water pH (-), electrical conductivity (µS cm-1), water turbidity (FNU), oxygen concentration (mg L-1), water level (m)
SOHYD_168 Soil water content and temperature;
VARIABLES: soil water content (vol%), soil water temperature (°C)
Other data: indicate any other data sets you would like to mobilize in the expression of interest form
Data uploaded to the eLTER Central Catalogue will follow the eLTER Data Template for field specifications.
It is expected that all data provided is equipped with extensive metadata following the eLTER Data Template.
During the project period participants will receive central support to structure their data in accordance with the eLTER Data Template and field specifications.
For detailed questions related to this data call - refer to the Call FAQ (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h63anAHVas0Lx7MudiargiW4_v84b1-FDGePg22BYbc/edit?usp=sharing).
If you can´t find answers to your questions, contact: office@elter-ri.eu
General questions - also check FAQ on the Market Place website (scroll to the bottom of the page): https://elter-ri.eu/elter-market-place
SUBMIT YOUR DATA
SUBMIT YOUR DATA = within the data call you are only submitting your interest to contribute with data during the project period, no data uploads are required yet. Please refer to the GUIDELINES (link to PDF) before using the EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (link to elomake) form.
Important dates
Deadline for the expression of interest form:
Project period: -
Important documents
Guidelines for this data call
ADD PDF
eLTER field specifications document
FAQ for this call (living document)