[M-GI31] Open Science in Action: Research Data Sharing, Infrastructure, Transparency, and International Cooperation

[MGI31-15] The International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (IHDEA) initiative

★Invited Papers

*Arnaud Masson¹, Aaron Roberts², Shing Fung², Bob McGuire², Jack Ireland², Jeremy Faden¹², Jim Lewis⁹, Baptiste Cecconi⁷, Vincent Genot⁸, J.C. Malapert⁴, Keiichi Matsuzaki³, Todd King⁵, Daniel Mueller⁶, Jon Vandegriff¹⁰, Miyoshi Yoshizumi¹¹ (1.ESAC Science Data Center, European Space Agency, Madrid, Spain, 2.NASA/GSFC, USA, 3.JAXA, ISAS, Tokyo, 4.CNES, Toulouse, 5.UCLA, USA, 6.ESTEC, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 7.LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, France, 8.IRAP, CNRS, Toulouse, 9.Berkeley University, USA, 10.John Hopkins, APL, USA, 11.ISEE, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan, 12.Cottage Systems, University of Iowa, USA)

The IHDEA was formed as a result of the first International Heliophysics Data Environment (IHDE) meeting held at the European Space and Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Madrid, Spain, on October 17-18, 2018. Meeting attendees representing NASA, ESA, JAXA, and CNES have all agreed that increasing collaboration and coordination through the use of standard formats (for both data and metadata) and community-based data tools are critical for enabling interoperability of data systems and services and improving sharing of space-based, ground-based, and model-based heliophysics data sets.

The newly created International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (IHDEA) is a collaborative organization whose goal is to guide the development of a data environment in which the international heliophysics and space weather research community can seamlessly find, access, and use all electronically accessible, heliophysics relevant data sets.

The specific mission of the IHDEA is to facilitate global access to, and exchange of, high quality scientific data products managed across international boundaries. This will be achieved by adhering to, and promote the use of, a set of governing data standards, data exchange protocols, visualization and data analysis tools.

The role of the IHDEA is to serve as the focal point to engage the heliophysics data centres and the scientific community, foster communication, and identify and identify the standards and services that will best serve the heliophysics and space weather science needs.

Practical examples will be provided, illustrating the mutual interest to foster collaboration between key heliophysics data providers.