@article{epos2248, volume = {7}, number = {89}, month = {March}, author = {Beata Orlecka-Sikora and Stanislaw Lasocki and Joanna Kocot and Tomasz Szepieniec and Jean-Robert Grasso and Alexander Garcia-Aristizabal and Marc Schaming and Pawel Urban and Glenda Jones and Ian Stimpson and Savka Dineva and Piotr Salek and Konstantinos Michail Leptokaropoulos and Grzegorz Lizurek and Dorota Olszewska and Jean Schmittbuhl and Grzegorz Kwiatek and Aglaja Blanke and Gilberto Saccarotti and Karolina Chodzinska and Lukasz Rudzinski and Izabela Dobrzycka and Grzegorz Mutke and Adam Baranski and Aleksandra Pierzyna and Elena Kozlovskaya and Jouni Nevalainen and Jannes Kinscher and Jan Sileny and Mariusz Sterzel and Szymon Cielesta and Tomas Fischer}, title = {An open data infrastructure for the study of anthropogenic hazards linked to georesource exploitation}, publisher = {Nature Research}, journal = {Scientific Data}, year = {2020}, url = {https://episodesplatform.eu/eprints/2248/}, abstract = {Mining, water-reservoir impoundment, underground gas storage, geothermal energy exploitation and hydrocarbon extraction have the potential to cause rock deformation and earthquakes, which may be hazardous for people, infrastructure and the environment. Restricted access to data constitutes a barrier to assessing and mitigating the associated hazards. Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazards (TCS AH) of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) provides a novel e-research infrastructure. The core of this infrastructure, the IS-EPOS Platform (tcs.ah-epos.eu) connected to international data storage nodes offers open access to large grouped datasets (here termed episodes), comprising geoscientific and associated data from industrial activity along with a large set of embedded applications for their efficient data processing, analysis and visualization. The novel team-working features of the IS-EPOS Platform facilitate collaborative and interdisciplinary scientific research, public understanding of science, citizen science applications, knowledge dissemination, data-informed policy-making and the teaching of anthropogenic hazards related to georesource exploitation. TCS AH is one of 10 thematic core services forming EPOS, a solid earth science European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) (www.epos-ip.org).} }