BITS – BluePrints for the Integration of Terminology Services in Earth System Sciences

BITS aims to address a major remaining obstacle to the application of FAIR principles in Earth System Science (ESS) by addressing the inadequate implementation of encoding semantics or, in other words, data interoperability of research data. Within BITS, the ESS collection has been established as part of the TIB Terminology Service (TS) at the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology for subfields of climate science and geoscientific collections (involving curated objects from mineralogy, petrology, and paleontology) and integrated at the two different data repositories of the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ) and the Senckenberg - Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research (SGN). The experience gained in setting up the ESS collection and integrating it into the repositories at DKRZ and SGN will be used to create blueprints that can later serve to link other Earth System Science repositories to the TS, in close collaboration with NFDI4Earth and the wider ESS community. The TIB TS and the ESS collection are described in an article in the Living Handbook of NFDI4Earth. 

This new ESS collection will serve as a valuable resource for researchers, students, professionals, and developers, empowering them with accurate and consistent terminology to enhance their work, improve communication, and advance knowledge in their respective fields. By providing a reliable and user-friendly tool, it will contribute significantly to the promotion of open science and effective information exchange within the scientific community.