Speaker Bio & Abstract

Ionut Iosifescu Enescu Technical Coordinator EnviDat
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Switzerland

BiographyDr. Ionut Iosifescu Enescu is the technical coordinator of the environmental data portal EnviDat. He holds degrees in Geodesy and Spatial Information Systems from the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest and ETH Zurich, a M.Sc. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, and a Ph.D. in Cartography and Geoinformation from ETH Zurich. He was previously a senior research associate at ETH Zurich and the technical project manager of the www.geodata4edu.chAbstractIonut Iosifescu Enescu, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Dominik Haas-Artho, Lucia Espona Pernas, Konrad Steffen | Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Michael Lehning | WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF / EPF Lausanne EnviDat is a FAIR-aligned environmental data portal and repository developed by the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. With its capability to host and publish data sets, EnviDat provides unified and managed access to a comprehensive reservoir of research data. EnviDat focuses on integrating curated data sets from the environmental domain, leading to a formal publication of research data with assignments of proper citation information and DOIs.

Geospatial technologies are central for EnviDat's additive data discovery mechanism, supporting data users with a more effective search and retrieval of published data based on their geospatial characteristics. By integrating GIS data and capabilities, EnviDat is showcasing the convergence of publishing repositories and geoportals and supporting bridging the gap between the research data management and the geospatial communities. EnviDat is registered in FAIR-sharing.org, re3data.org and a contributor to EUDAT and the GEOSS Portal.

With EnviDat, WSL fosters international research cooperation in the field of environmental science and contributes to the ongoing cultural evolution in research towards openness, shared data and opportunities for distant collaboration. By hosting data on environmental and climate change, EnviDat actively contributes to the faster advancement of science and generation of crucial knowledge about climate change and climate change mitigation.