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Data and service management of the EPOS Volcano Observations Thematic Core Service by the European volcanological community

Letizia Spampinato1, Enrico Indovina1, Adelina Geyer2, Ríkey Júlíusdóttir3, Danilo Reitano1 Giuseppe Puglisi1 Rosella Nave4, Ileana Santangelo4, Kristín Vogfjörd3, Philippe Labazuy5, Lucia Cacciola1, Itahiza Domínguez-Cerdeña6, Yannick Guehenneux5, Jean-Christophe Komorowski7, Jean-Marie Saurel7

  • Affiliations: 1Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo-sezione di Catania, Piazza Roma 2, 95125 Catania, Italy; 2Geosciences Barcelona, CSIC, Lluis Solé Sabaris S/N, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; 3Icelandic Meteorological Office, Bústaðavegur 9, 150 Reykjavík, Iceland; 4Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Via Diocleziano 328, 80124 Naples, Italy; 5Laboratoire Magmas Et Volcans, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, IRD, OPGC, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France; 6Instituto Geográfico Nacional, C/La Marina 20, -2, 38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain; 7Institut de Physique du Globe, Université Paris Cité, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France

  • Presentation type: Poster

  • Presentation time: Friday 16:30 - 18:00, Room Poster Hall

  • Poster Board Number: 57

  • Programme No: 7.5.8

  • Theme 7 > Session 5

Abstract

The Volcano Observations Thematic Core Service (VOLC-TCS) is one of ten core services forming the European Plate Observing System (EPOS). The objective of the VOLC-TCS is the implementation of a technical, financial, and legal framework to (i) strengthen the European volcanology community and (ii) provide virtual access to the community's data, data products software and services from volcanoes in Europe and European overseas territories. The efforts of the VOLC-TCS began prior to the appointment of EPOS as an ERIC and have followed a long-term work plan that started in 2002. The main challenges have consisted in (1) data heterogeneity regarding technical and legal aspects (e.g. different data policies among the data providers, different purposes for the use of data), (2) the consistency of the VOLC-TCS' products with the overall service provision of EPOS, which merges services from different Earth Science communities, (3) the harmonisation of the data and products with standards defined by other TCSs, and (4) the implementation of the community Gateway to expose and enable access to services not fully EPOS compliant or to services implemented by institutions outside the EPOS, and to create a platform acting as an interface between the VOLC-TCS and data infrastructures operating at a global level (e.g. WOVOdat). Based on the experience gained and the results achieved, we report on the state of the art of the VOLC-TCS since 2018 and propose future actions to address some of the main technical challenges and measures to ensure mid-to-long term sustainability of the services.