Why the Belmont Forum requires Data Management Plans (DMPs) The Belmont Forum supports international transdisciplinary research with the goal of providing knowledge for understanding, mitigating and adapting to global environmental change. To meet this challenge, the Belmont Forum emphasizes open sharing of research data to stimulate new approaches to the …

A full Data and Digital Outputs Management Plan for an awarded Belmont Forum project is a living, actively updated document that describes the data management life cycle for the data and other digital outputs to be collected, reused, processed, and/or generated. As part of making research data open by default, findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), the …

Underlying Rationale In 2015, the Belmont Forum adopted the Open Data Policy and Principles . The e-Infrastructures & Data Management Project is designed to support the operationalization of this policy and has identified the Data Publishing Policy Project (DP3) as …

If EOF-1 dominates the data set (high fraction of explained variance): approximate relationship between degree field and modulus of EOF-1 (Donges et al., Climate Dynamics, 2015):

The Belmont Forum recognizes that significant advances in open access to data have been achieved and implementation of this policy and these principles requires support by a highly skilled workforce. The Belmont Forum recommends a broad-based training and education curriculum as an integral part of research programs and encourages researchers to be aware …

Belmont Forum Data Policy and Principles The Belmont Forum adopts this data policy and the following principles to widen access to data and promote its long-term preservation in global change research; help improve data management and exploitation; coordinate and integrate disparate organizational and technical elements; fill critical global e-infrastructure gaps; share …

Big data EO management and analysis 40 years of Earth Observation data of land change accessible for analysis and modelling.

Several actions related to the data lifecycle, such as data discovery, do require an understanding of the data, technology, and information infrastructures that may result from information science education.

The survey highlights users’ perceptions of the term “open data,” expectations of infrastructure functionalities, and barriers and enablers for the sharing of data. The information in this presentation helped drive Implementation Phase activities aimed at acculturating the research community to data sharing practices.

Aug 27, 2025 · The Belmont Forum is an international partnership that mobilizes funding of environmental change research and accelerates its delivery to remove critical barriers to sustainability.