1. Priorities for International Development of e-Infrastructure and Data Management in Global Change Research
Presentation by Robert Gurney, University of Reading
Developed by the Belmont Forum e-Infrastructure and Data Management Project
SciDataCon – 13 September 2016

2. Remembering lee Allison

3. Through an integrated approach regional and global scale
Societally focused research agenda – effectively a re-framing of GEC research for 21st century
The integrating framework/approach –
--- across observations, modelling and services.  (At all scales, both in our CRAs and across Future Earth)
--- transdisciplinary but resonating with traditional research communities to draw them in
Meet 21st century needs for knowledge to support action on environmental change, building on 20th century understanding
Accelerate provision of knowledge for sustainability through increasing international collaboration in research
Through an integrated approach
regional and global scale
disciplines while still resonating with traditional research communities
Leverage domestic investments

4. The Belmont Challenge This requires:
Assessments of risks, impacts and vulnerabilities
Information on the state of the environment, through advanced observing systems
Interaction of natural and social sciences 
Enhanced environmental information service providers to users 
Effective international coordination mechanisms
“…to deliver knowledge needed for action to avoid and adapt to detrimental environmental change, including extreme hazardous events.”

5. Through an integrated approach regional and global scale
Societally focused research agenda – effectively a re-framing of GEC research for 21st century
The integrating framework/approach –
--- across observations, modelling and services.  (At all scales, both in our CRAs and across Future Earth)
--- transdisciplinary but resonating with traditional research communities to draw them in
Meet 21st century needs for knowledge to support action on environmental change, building on 20th century understanding
Accelerate provision of knowledge for sustainability through increasing international collaboration in research
Through an integrated approach
regional and global scale
disciplines while still resonating with traditional research communities
Leverage domestic investments

6. E-infrastructures and Data Management CRA
“….the need to address global environmental challenges requires a more coordinated approach to the planning, implementation, and management of data, analytics and E-Infrastructures” through international collaboration.
- Belmont Forum, New Delhi, February 2013

7. Community Strategy and Implementation Plan
Delivered June 2015 Belmont Forum adopted Data Principles and Policy October 2015

8. Belmont Forum Data Policy and Principles
The Belmont Forum adopts this data policy and the following principles to widen access to data and promote its long-term preservation in global change research; help improve data management and exploitation; coordinate and integrate disparate organizational and technical elements; fill critical global e-infrastructure gaps; share best practices; and foster new data literacy. The Belmont Forum recognizes that significant advances in open access to data have been achieved and implementation of this policy and these principles requires support by a highly skilled workforce. The Belmont Forum recommends a broad-based training and education curriculum as an integral part of research programs and encourages researchers to be aware of, and plan for, the costs of data intensive research. The Belmont Forum’s ambition is that this policy and these principles will take positive steps toward establishing a global, interoperable e-infrastructure based on cost-effective solutions that can help enable actionable and societally beneficial science. .

9. Belmont Forum Data Policy and Principles
Data should be:
Discoverable through catalogues and search engines
Accessible as open data by default, and made available with minimum time delay
Understandable in a way that allows researchers—including those outside the discipline of origin—to use them
Manageable and protected from loss for future use in sustainable, trustworthy repositories
The Belmont Forum and its members will support and promote this data policy and principles with the intent of making these data principles enforceable over time.

10. Data Planning Data Planning
Develop and adopt a common minimum EDP template
Establish a Security Advisory Board
Establish a Data Policy Advisory Board
Establish a Publishing Liaison Board
Establish mechanisms for regular review and monitoring of EDP accomplishments and effectiveness, and to share best practice
Data Planning
Action Theme 2 leaders:
●   NERC (UK)
●   JST (Japan)
●  NSF (USA)

11. e-Infrastructure Exemplars
e-Infrastructures
Hold scoping workshops
Identify and fund interdisciplinary use-cases - data- and e-Infrastructures to show best practice and deal with problems
Inform data- and e-Infrastructure policy with case-proven best practices
Inform metrics and reporting requirements for calls for proposals
 Evaluation of BF programme impacts
Action Theme 3 leaders:
●   ANR (France)
●   JST (Japan)
●   European Commission
●   MoST (Taiwan)

12. CAPACITY BUILDING Gaps, resources, training, and skills
Human Dimensions
Gaps, resources, training, and skills
Cross-disciplinary education and training, for PIs as well as postgrads
Design training programs to coordinate data management practices among Belmont Forum participants
Action Theme 4 leaders:
●   NERC UK

13. Coordination Office
e-Infrastructures
Human Dimensions
Data Planning
Foster communication, collaboration, and coordination across the global change research community and Belmont Forum projects
Support communication between Action Themes and interaction with the Belmont Forum Secretariat
Map data landscape
Building on work by other international bodies (eg CODATA, ICSU-WDS, RDA, GEO)…
Action Theme 1 leaders:
●   NSF (USA)
●   JST (Japan)
●   MoST (Taiwan)
●   European Commission (EC)