Providing high resolution data for the long-term ecosystem research infrastructure on the national and European scale

In order to analyse and understand ecosystem responses with respect to different environmental challenges a wide range of data is needed. Based on the results of a scientific gap analysis, LTER CWN focuses on a prioritisation of observation parameters completing the existing observation programmes at five LTER sites in Austria. The resulting data needs to be made available in an open and standardised manner following the information management principles of existing European scale initiatives like eLTER, LTER Europe or ILTER. One of the challenges for the LTER CWN Data Management is to integrate a number of heterogeneous systems at the level of the participating partners, who run the monitoring activities and facilitate the data flow from the observation sites to the central data provision. The resulting data files are automatically ingested into a central database that ultimately provides time series data of each parameter and for each site through an OGC-SOS service to the public under an open access data policy. This article provides an overview of the information architecture and tools used in order to ensure for the data to be Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).