DNA4.1-Listing of European EO data policy bodies of interest for GENESI-DR

Aim of GENESI-DR is to achieve following objectives: - To provide a base for (establishing) a world-wide e-infrastructure for Earth Science with European leadership - To provide guaranteed, reliable, easy, effective, and operational access to a variety of data sources, and demonstrate how the same approach can be extended to provide access to all Earth Science data - To harmonise operations at key Earth Science data repositories limiting fragmentation of solutions - To demonstrate effective curation and prepare the frame for approaching long term preservation of Earth Science data - To validate the effective capabilities required to access distributed repositories for new communities, including education, and assess benefits and impacts - To integrate new scientific and technological derived paradigms in operational infrastructures in responds to the latest Earth Science requirements Realisation of GENESI-DR is not only a technical challenge. Only in conjunction with the solving of political issues the project will have success in the future. Network Activity 4 (NA4) is responsible for covering these political issues. It will deal with data policy aspects and contacts with national and international organisations and provide the usage policy input for Service Activities (SA1, SA2). In the frame of sub-task TNA4.1 - Relation with European and National Policy Bodies- NA4 has to identify European Bodies concerned in the management of Earth science data. In a first step it will compile a survey of National, European and International Interest Groups involved in Data and Resources Access Policy. From these existing data policies it will derive and update as needed the overall GENESI-DR access policies for Earth science data. This survey is the content of this document.