This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 640276.
Remedy 1: Coordination at European level to harmonise data and licence policies by extending the use of existing technical standards
The remedy of adopting an open data policy means that once the data are submitted to the data archive/data centre, they are public for all users, including commercial users. This facilitates and stimulates the use of the data and stimulates the (combined) use of complementary data from different networks, hence a larger cost-effectiveness of the networks. To make this option acceptable for the data providers, the latter should get credit for their data. The funding organisations must be made aware of the use of the data, as an encouragement to sustain the data acquisition. Harmonisation of data policies facilitates the data access in data portals and for data users – stimulating the (combined) use of complementary data from different networks, hence a more beneficial use of the networks data.
The adoption of an open data policy by all networks and the enhanced utilisation of the data will demonstrate the success of the remedy.
- Programmatic multi-year, multi-institution activity
- Less than 3 years
- Low cost (< 1 million)
- Yes
- National funding agencies
- National Meteorological Services
- National measurement institutes