Constructing a Searchable Knowledge Repository for FAIR Climate Data

Abstract: The development of a knowledge repository for climate science data is a multidisciplinary effort between the domain experts (climate scientists), data engineers whos skills include design and building a knowledge repository, and machine learning researchers who provide expertise on data preparation tasks such as gap filling and advise on different machine learning models that can exploit this data. One of the main goals of the CA20108 cost action is to develop a knowledge portal that is fully compliant with the FAIR principles for scientific data management. In the first year, a bespoke knowledge portal was developed to capture metadata for FAIR datasets. Its purpose was to provide detailed metadata descriptions for shareable \micro data using the WMO standard. While storing Network, Site and Sensor metadata locally, the system passes the actual data to Zenodo, receives back the DOI and thus, creates a permanent link between the Knowledge Portal and the storage platform Zenodo. While the user searches the Knowledge portal (metadata), results provide both detailed descriptions and links to data on the Zenodo platform.