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+## Use Case: Repository and analytics platform on soil ecosystem and biodiversity data
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+Soil is one of the critical ecosystems for the water cycle, CO2 cycle, biodiversity and agriculture. 
+CASUS is currently setting up infrastructure to provide long term, high quality data on soil data, including information on the ecosystem and biodiversity.
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+This data is curated and spans over decades and, in some places, almost a century. 
+Such rich, high quality, long term data is central to better assess the long term development of soil quality, biodiversity and ecological richness as well as its role in the global water and CO2 cycle in the view of global change.
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+The infrastructure that will be used for this project will built up on a very similar architecture as the medical application stack depecited above, again making use of the aforementioned HIFIS services.
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+While the provision of such data is a big step by its own, leveraging synergies with other research disciplines in building trustworthy statistical and AI models for such rich and large data sets is an important step to understand the complexity and dynamics of the systems from which this data is collected.
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+While this data analytics infrastructure is currently being built, a trustworthy, non-commercial, federated cloud infrastructure run by an internationally known and trusted entity is favoured by researchers, guideline organizations, clinics and pharma companies alike as the backbone for such an infrastructure. 
+Helmholtz and HIFIS are the ideal partners for providing such infrastructure across communities and country borders.
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+Secure and trusted data management and provision, a long-term commitment and the ability to scale such an architecture combined with decades of experience in providing research infrastructures to stakeholders from science to industry are key elements to the sustainability of such data platforms and the soft- and hardware infrastructure needed for them. 
+In Europe, only Helmholtz and HIFIS are able to provide this.
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+While institutes and centres such as CASUS / HZDR can develop the specific research software stack needed for domain-specific data analytics platforms as they have the combined scientific domain and IT infrastructure expertise, the underlying cloud infrastructure is much better fitting to be provided as an overarching, common infrastructure by HIFIS that leverages the synergies in needing such infrastructures for many different cloud-based data repository and analytics infrastructures across scientific domains, centres and research fields.
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+As such, we believe that creating and maintaining data repository and analytics services via the HIFIS infrastructure is a strong strategic decision that puts Helmholtz in the lead of providing soft- and hardware infrastructures for data-based research in Europe and worldwide.
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+## Get in contact
+For CASUS: Michael Bussmann
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+For HIFIS: [HIFIS Support](mailto:support@hifis.net?subject="[CASUS-use-case]")