Core Project 4 - Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research - Central Data Management

数据及其在合成和长期研究中的再利用的重要性在生物多样性探索中得到了很好的承认。在项目开始时已经通过了一项数据政策，并在第一阶段开始时实施了一个中央数据库。数据库的早期提供包括。对数据集的积极管理，以及对用户需要和要求的一致遵守和纳入，使其获得高度接受。中央数据管理为数据交换和简单的数据重用提供了环境，刺激和促进了综合。中央数据库还为地方管理小组和生物多样性探索办公室所需的有效实地资源管理提供了信息技术基础设施，并提供了计算草原土地利用强度指数的工具，这是许多小组使用的一个参数。该数据库确保了数据的可解释性，并为数据质量控制提供了手段。它既可以作为工作中的存储，也可以作为临时归档。自2021年以来，BEXIS2软件一直用于这一目的，并辅之以自创建的模块。这项建议将确保这项强有力的工作继续下去，而对于探索实验室的全面成功来说，这也是必不可少的工作。除了继续提供基础设施和用户支助(特别是综合方面的基础设施)外，新供资期间的工作将侧重于以下主题信息系统：开发进一步的研究支助工具，进一步扩大数据和储存库的公平性，也通过更多地纳入持久标识符来扩大数据和储存库，以及为所有受资助的项目推出数据管理计划。

The importance of data and their re-use in synthesis and long-term studies is very well acknowledged in the Biodiversity Exploratories. A data policy was already adopted at the start of the project and a central database was implemented at the beginning of the first phase. The early provision of the database incl. an active curation of the datasets and a consistent observance and incorporation of user needs and requirements have resulted in high acceptance. The central data management provides an environment for data interchange and simple data re-use, stimulating and facilitating synthesis. The central database also provides the IT- infrastructure for efficient field resource management needed by the local management teams and the Biodiversity Exploratory Office, as well as a tool to compute the Land Use Intensity Index, LUI, for grasslands, a parameter that is used by many groups. The database secures the interpretability of data and provides the means for data quality control. It functions both as a work-in-progress storage and as a temporary archive. Since 2021, the BEXIS2 software has been used for this purpose, which is supplemented by self-created modules. This proposal shall secure the continuation of this strong and, for the overall success of the Exploratories, essential work. In addition to continued provisioning of the infrastructure and user support (in particular with respect to synthesis) the work in the new funding period will focus on the following topcis: development of further research supporting tools, further expansion of the FAIRness of data and the repository also through the increased inclusion of persistent identifiers, and the introduction of data management plans for all funded projects.