Building a European geothermal information network using a distributed e-Infrastructure. Issue 5 (3rd May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Trumpy, Eugenio; Coro, Gianpaolo; Manzella, Adele; Pagano, Pasquale; Castelli, Donatella; Calcagno, Philippe; Nador, Annamaria; Bragasson, Thorvaldur; Grellet, Sylvain; Siddiqi, Gunter
• Is Part Of: International journal of digital earth. Volume 9:Issue 5(2016)
• Page Start: 499
• Page End: 519
• Publication Date: 2016-05-03
• Subjects: Geothermal documents -- distributed data -- geothermal spatial data infrastructure -- e-Infrastructures -- D4Science -- hybrid data infrastructures; Geographic information systems -- Periodicals; Sustainable development -- Information technology -- Periodicals; Social planning -- Information technology -- Periodicals; 910.285
• DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2015.1073378
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1753-8947

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Geothermal data are published using different IT services, formats and content representations, and can refer to both regional and global scale information. Geothermal stakeholders search for information with different aims. E-Infrastructures are collaborative platforms that address this diversity of aims and data representations. In this paper, we present a prototype for a European Geothermal Information Platform that uses INSPIRE recommendations and an e-Infrastructure (D4Science) to collect, aggregate and share data sets from different European data contributors, thus enabling stakeholders to retrieve and process a large amount of data. Our system merges segmented and national realities into one common framework. We demonstrate our approach by describing a platform that collects data from Italian, French, Hungarian, Swiss and Icelandic geothermal data providers.