Environment Climate Data Sweden, ECDS, is a Swedish service facilitating the searching, publication and long-term accessibility of data for research in the fields of environment and climate. ECDS will be the central access point to decentralized data resources.

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ECDS at Umeå University

On 4 April, ECDS visited Umeå University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Seminars were held on access to research data. We also offered personal guidance to the ECDS portal.
Invitation to seminar in Umeå

Workshop on research data management

ECDS participated in a workshop on data management and open access at Luleå University of Technology during 2-3 April 2012.
Workshop on research data management

ECDS at Polarforum

The Swedish Polarforum gathered more than a hundred experts from research, governmental agencies and other organisations. ECDS was present to inspire the researchers to share their unique data.
Polarforum 2012

Contact Cecilia and Barry

A new contact person for ECDS is researcher Cecilia Bennet. Contact Cecilia or Barry Broman for more information about ECDS, or if you have questions concerning data management and how to use the ECDS data portal.

Contact ECDS

Paleoclimate data

New data in the portal: The Greater Baltic Area Paleoclimate Database, BALPAL. “We hope that by providing this service fellow researchers will be encouraged to submit their own data, and help build a high-quality base for paleoclimate research in north-western Europe”, says David Rayner, University of Gothenburg.

BALPAL - ECDS data portal

IPY data to the portal

Swedish IPY data can now be accessed through the ECDS portal. “Sweden has committed significant efforts during the last International Polar Year. It is important to ensure the long-term accessibility of these data for the scientific community and policy makers”, says Joakim Langner, chair of the ECDS board.

Reasons to use ECDS – seminar at BBCC

How can you benefit from ECDS? This was the theme of a seminar hosted by the Bert Bolin Centre at Stockholm University. The seminar encouraged researchers to contribute and use the content of ECDS. Documentation is now available.

Bert Bolin homepage

Data publication plan template

A support document to help with the creation of a data publication plan has been compiled by ECDS. Research funding agencies often require a data publication plan as an appendix to a research proposal.
Data Publication Plan - Guidelines and template

“Our goal is to help researchers find and share environment and climate data. Contact us if you need further assistance or if you have comments”.
Thomas Klein, Director of ECDS.

Data publication plan

Guidelines and template

Data Publication Plan -  Guidelines and template

METADATA CATALOGUE

ECDS is your gateway to environment and climate data. Through the portal and the underlying metadata catalogue you will be guided to datasets hosted by contributors.

Search data

Access to the portal for searching metadata.
Search data
 

Publish data

Access to the portal for publication of metadata, and the login page.
Publish data

 

 

ECDS is funded by the Swedish Research Council and hosted by SMHI.