LTER-Italy Dataset Asset Registry

Name of repository

LTER-Italy Dataset Asset Registry

Repository URL

https://dataregistry.lteritalia.it/

Subject(s)

• Life Sciences
• Biology
• Zoology
• Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions

Description

eLTER-RI is a pan-European in-situ research infrastructure whose mission is to study long-term ecological changes in terrestrial, freshwater and transitional ecosystems through a holistic “whole system” approach, based on the integration of different environmental disciplines, to understand the role and interactions of multiple and complex ecosystem variables. The RI consists of 26 national networks, 500 research sites and 50 LTER platforms, providing broad and systematic coverage of key European ecosystems, integrating the socio-ecological components. eLTER-RI comprises National Research Infrastructures (NRIs), and European level Central Services (CS), such as data access, training and harmonized methods and parameters (standard observations). The Italian participation in eLTER-RI is coordinated by the National Research Council (CNR) and involves various Italian institutions including universities, research bodies and local authorities. The LTER-Italy network consists of 72 research sites representing a variety of environments: land, freshwater, marine water, and transitional. Other than these sites on the national territory, the Italian Network also counts 6 extraterritorial sites located in the Himalayan region and Antarctica. eLTER-RI is one of the RIs included in the PNRR project ITINERIS "Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System". The primary objective of ITINERIS is to establish the Italian integrated system of the Research Infrastructures in the environmental scientific domain, facilitating observation and study of processes in the atmosphere, marine domain, terrestrial biosphere, and geosphere. The LTER-Italy network Digital Asset Registry (LTER-Italy DAR) is implemented in the framework of the marine domain Work Package of the ITINERIS project and in its first version is designed to host the datasets produced by the marine and transitional sites of the LTER-Italy network. LTER-Italy DAR is based on the GeoNode software and provides data and metadata sharing thought the services approved by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The customizations present here concern the use of a metadata set compliant with the specifications required by eLTER-RI and the integration, alongside the classic services available in GeoNode, of the FROST implementation of the OGC SensorThings API standard. LTER-Italy DAR is hosted by the Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR) and co-managed by CNR-ISMAR and the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (CNR-IREA).

Contact(s)

• administrative: lteritaly@gmail.com
• support: giorgio.matteucci@cnr.it
• support: caterina.bergami@cnr.it
• support: alessandro.oggioni@cnr.it

Content type(s)

• dataset
• aggregated data
• geospatial data
• observational data
• image

Keyword(s)

• ERIC
• ESFRI
• Italy
• Long Term Ecological Research network
• Research Infrastructure

Repository type(s)

• institutional

Research data repository language(s)

• English
• Italian

Data and/or service provider

• dataProvider