Data infrastructures

EcoTaxa is a web application dedicated to the visual exploration and the taxonomic classification of images of individual living organisms. Currently, most images illustrate the beauty of planktonic biodiversity. The aim of EcoTaxa is to centralise images of plankton, to allow their collaborative sorting along a universal taxonomy and to accelerate it through machine learning.

ELIXIR is an intergovernmental organization founded in 2013 that unites life science resources—databases, software tools, training materials, and cloud storage—from across Europe into a single, coordinated infrastructure. The European Nucleotides Archive (ENA) and the MGnify platform are two of those free, public resources hosted by EMBL-EBI, which are part of the federation of the Blue-Cloud DD&AS.

The European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) is a pan European research infrastructure that provides researchers and companies with access to marine organisms and ecosystems and the facilities to study them, including experimental facilities and technological platforms. EMBRC enables researchers to better understand our impact on the oceans and ensure the sustainable use of marine resources.

EMODnet connects a network of over 150 organisations supported by the EU’s Integrated Maritime Policy who work together to observe the sea, process the data according to international standards and make that information freely available as interoperable data layers and data products.

The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is the European Commission (EC) in situ marine data service of the EC Directorate-General Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (EC DG MARE) and funded by the European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund. EMODnet Chemistry is one of the seven thematic lots of the European Marine Observation and Data network. It comprises members of SeaDataNet consortium together with organisations from marine science, environmental monitoring agencies, regional sea conventions, chemical expert and others. The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is the European Commission (EC) in situ marine data service of the EC Directorate-General Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (EC DG MARE) and funded by the European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund. EMODnet is the in situ component of the European Digital Twin Ocean and provides its full service offer on the EDITO data lake on the cloud, together with Copernicus Marine earth observation data.

The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is the European Commission (EC) in situ marine data service of the EC Directorate-General Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (EC DG MARE) and funded by the European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund. EMODnet Physics is one of the seven thematic lots of the European Marine Observation and Data Network. It does not run any observations platform by itself, but metadata and data from key European oceanographic repositories and marine infrastructures are integrated with other available physics data sources to provide the most comprehensive and diverse in situ ocean physics data service and catalogue for Europe and beyond. The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is the European Commission (EC) in situ marine data service of the EC Directorate-General Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (EC DG MARE) and funded by the European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund. EMODnet is the in situ component of the European Digital Twin Ocean and provides its full service offer on the EDITO data lake on the cloud, together with Copernicus Marine earth observation data.

The EMSO ERIC is a distributed research infrastructure, consisting of 14 ocean observation systems and test sites located in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea which constantly measure different biogeochemical and physical parameters. The overarching goal of EMSO is to explore, monitor, and better understand the phenomena happening within and below the oceans and their critical impact on the Earth, providing valuable data and services to a large and diverse group of users for addressing global challenges.

The Euro-Argo ERIC allows active coordination and strengthening of the European contribution to the international Argo program. Its main objectives are to provide, deploy and operate the European contribution to the global array of Argo floats and an enhanced coverage of European seas. It also aims to expand coverage to include biogeochemistry, greater depths, and high latitudes, while ensuring access to quality- controlled data and derived products.

EurOBIS - euEMODnet Biology is the thematic lot within the EMODnet service focused on providing open and free accessible and free data and data products on the temporal and spatial distribution of various marine species across European regional seas and European extraterritorial waters. The taxonomic structure of EMODnet Biology relies on the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and shares the data infrastructure within the European node of the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (EurOBIS, www.eurobis.org). Specifically, within the Blue-Cloud Data Discovery & Access Service, the federation includes the EurOBIS service.

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) provides a comprehensive open record of the world's nucleotide sequencing information and a platform for the management and analysis of sequence and related data. ENA is designated by the ELIXIR infrastructure both as a Core Data Resource, and a Deposition Database.

ICOS ERIC is an international organisation aimed at quantifying and understanding the greenhouse gas balance of Europe and neighbouring regions.

The main purpose of JERICO-RI is to enable a sound understanding of the responses of coastal marine systems to natural and anthropogenic stressors. To do so, JERICO-RI adopts a systematic approach to monitor, observe, explore and analyse coastal marine systems in order to reach reliable information of their structure and functioning in the context of global change. JERICO- RI encompasses the whole range of environmental sciences, technologies, and data sciences.

SeaDataNet is a major pan-European infrastructure for managing, indexing and providing access to marine data sets and data products, acquired by European organisations from research cruises and other observational activities in European coastal marine waters, regional seas and the global ocean. SeaDataNet has been initiated and is managed and operated by the National Oceanographic Data Centres in Europe.

The Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System is a collaborative interdisciplinary effort to develop and maintain a regional observational system for long-term measurements in and around Svalbard. SIOS is aiming at more efficient use and better integration of the observing system based on a distributed data management system, an open access programme that includes logistical support, as well as training and education activity.

The Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) is a synthesis activity for quality-controlled, surface ocean fCO2 (fugacity of carbon dioxide) observations by the international marine carbon research community. SOCAT enables quantification of the ocean carbon sink and ocean acidification and evaluation of ocean biogeochemical models.

WEkEO: Part of Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS), improving data access for innovation, science, business, and policy.