This talk will review some sociological and technical aspects associated with the standards, governance structure and data analyses of distributed data.
Germany-wide, highly distributed observational data of the earth, the atmosphere, and the oceans from decades are now being made available by a Helmholtz initiative through one common combined data/metadata interface and standard, which poses a number of challenges to the established scientific and technical workflows.
Finding a compromise between researchers’ needs, their skills in data management, data access restrictions, and limited funding for RDM is a complex but highly relevant and timely challenge.