Study on Resource and Environment Scientific Research Data Archiving Case Study for National Basic Research Program of China

The National Basic Research Program of China (also called 973 Program) is China's on-going national keystone basic research program. Based on deep consideration, Research projects in resource and environment field of 973 Program are selected as a pilot engineering for data archiving and sharing. Based on actual practices, the paper will introduce the general background, data archiving phases, data archiving metadata standard and tool kits, data archiving content and data sharing platform Web oriented.

I. Introduction

Scientific data is the most important basis for scientific research. All the scientific data derived from different agencies by means of national funding should be shared for public. These data can be generally divided into two groups in China. •

In-situ data from long term monitoring system in different departments, such as China Meteorology Administration, China Earthquake Administration, State Oceanic Administration of China, Ministry of Land and Resources of China, et

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Scientific research data from interdisciplinary research agencies, such as Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Agriculture Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Forestry, etc.