ENVRI-Hub NEXT_D7.5_Report on the Fair Data Point Implementation for ECVs

This deliverable presents the concept of FAIR Data Point (FDP) and describes the most relevant functionalities of the FDP demonstrator that was deployed for the purpose of the ENVRI-Hub NEXT (EHN) project, including how the concept of Essential Climate Variable (ECV) with I-ADOPT annotations was implemented in the FDP demonstrator. The conclusions drawn from the first half of the EHN project are that the FDP can play a useful role in the Hub architecture to describe individual datasets, but a number of issues still need to be addressed in the second part of the project: Find an agreement among all participating research infrastructures (RIs) about the granularity of datasets that should be included in the FDP; Find technical solutions for all RIs to add metadata about all relevant datasets to the FDP; Fix some issues in the FDP reference implementation (which is used for the EHN FDP).