The aim of the World Heat Flow Database Project is to develop a new research data infrastructure for the International Heat Flow Commission's Global Heat Flow Database, providing a one-stop-shop for comprehensive information on heat flow-related data, publications, projects and researchers. This new user-oriented web service will provide the geoscience community with quality-assured, up-to-date, well-documented, enhanced, enriched and restructured heat flow data via an interactive portal.
The project supports the Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Project, which has the task of enriching the heat flow data collected for over 70 years, mainly from scientific publications, with current metadata and transferring it as far as possible to the new IHFC metadata schema with the help of the new quality schema for heat flow data.
The new database will reflect the criteria of FAIR and Open Data and support interoperability with other geoscientific data services (e.g., EPOS). Core elements are the provision of globally used persistent identifiers via the partner repository GFZ Data Services: (i) DOI for new heat flow data submitted to the database, (ii) ORCID IDs to uniquely identify authors and (iii) International Generic Sample Numbers (IGSN) to link data and literature to physical samples on which data were measured.
As the driving force behind the World Heat Flow Database Project, the GFZ is responsible for the continuous maintenance and development of the updated Global Heat Flow Database. The role of Section 5.1 in this project is to ensure that best practices and standards for metadata storage are followed and that the database is integrated with existing internal and external data services.
Time frame
- Since Juni 2022
Funding Agency
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
Project coordination
- Sven Fuchs (GFZ 4.3)
- Kirsten Elger (GFZ 5.1)
- Stephan Maes (TU Dresden)
Cooperation partner
- GFZ Sektion 4.3 Geoenergy
- GFZ Sektion 5.1 Daten und Informationsmanagement
- TU Dresden, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Chair of Geoinformatics
Project website: https://heatflow.world/