An Open Digital Platform to Support Interdisciplinary Energy Research and Practice—Conceptualization
Energy research itself is changing due to digitalization and the trend to open science. While this change enables new research, it also increases the amount of, and need for, available data and models. Therefore, a platform for open digital energy research and development is required to support rese...
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| author | Stephan Ferenz Annika Ofenloch Fernando Penaherrera Vaca Henrik Wagner Oliver Werth Michael H. Breitner Bernd Engel Sebastian Lehnhoff Astrid Nieße |
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| description | Energy research itself is changing due to digitalization and the trend to open science. While this change enables new research, it also increases the amount of, and need for, available data and models. Therefore, a platform for open digital energy research and development is required to support researchers and practitioners with their new needs and to enable FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) research data management in energy research. We present a functional and technological concept for such a platform based on six elements: <i>Competence</i> to enable researchers and practitioners to find suitable partners for their projects, <i>Methods</i> to give an overview on the diverse possible research methods within energy research, <i>Repository</i> to support finding data and models for simulation of energy systems, <i>Simulation</i> to couple these models and data to create user-defined simulation scenarios, <i>Transparency</i> to publish results and other content relevant for the different stakeholder in energy research, and <i>Core</i> to interconnect all elements and to offer a unified entry point. We discuss the envisioned use of the outlined platform with use cases addressing three relevant stakeholder groups. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ad4deffd50be4fa6a932af0f819d7eb02023-11-23T13:05:48ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732022-09-011517641710.3390/en15176417An Open Digital Platform to Support Interdisciplinary Energy Research and Practice—ConceptualizationStephan Ferenz0Annika Ofenloch1Fernando Penaherrera Vaca2Henrik Wagner3Oliver Werth4Michael H. Breitner5Bernd Engel6Sebastian Lehnhoff7Astrid Nieße8Department of Computer Science, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, GermanyEnergy Division, OFFIS—Institute for Information Technology, 24105 Oldenburg, GermanyDepartment of Computer Science, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, GermanyElenia Institute for High Voltage Technology and Power Systems, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, GermanyInformation Systems Institute, Leibniz University Hannover, 30167 Hannover, GermanyInformation Systems Institute, Leibniz University Hannover, 30167 Hannover, GermanyElenia Institute for High Voltage Technology and Power Systems, Technische Universität Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, GermanyDepartment of Computer Science, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, GermanyDepartment of Computer Science, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg, GermanyEnergy research itself is changing due to digitalization and the trend to open science. While this change enables new research, it also increases the amount of, and need for, available data and models. Therefore, a platform for open digital energy research and development is required to support researchers and practitioners with their new needs and to enable FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) research data management in energy research. We present a functional and technological concept for such a platform based on six elements: <i>Competence</i> to enable researchers and practitioners to find suitable partners for their projects, <i>Methods</i> to give an overview on the diverse possible research methods within energy research, <i>Repository</i> to support finding data and models for simulation of energy systems, <i>Simulation</i> to couple these models and data to create user-defined simulation scenarios, <i>Transparency</i> to publish results and other content relevant for the different stakeholder in energy research, and <i>Core</i> to interconnect all elements and to offer a unified entry point. We discuss the envisioned use of the outlined platform with use cases addressing three relevant stakeholder groups.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/17/6417energy researchdigital platformresearch data management |
| spellingShingle | Stephan Ferenz Annika Ofenloch Fernando Penaherrera Vaca Henrik Wagner Oliver Werth Michael H. Breitner Bernd Engel Sebastian Lehnhoff Astrid Nieße An Open Digital Platform to Support Interdisciplinary Energy Research and Practice—Conceptualization Energies energy research digital platform research data management |
| title | An Open Digital Platform to Support Interdisciplinary Energy Research and Practice—Conceptualization |
| title_full | An Open Digital Platform to Support Interdisciplinary Energy Research and Practice—Conceptualization |
| title_fullStr | An Open Digital Platform to Support Interdisciplinary Energy Research and Practice—Conceptualization |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Open Digital Platform to Support Interdisciplinary Energy Research and Practice—Conceptualization |
| title_short | An Open Digital Platform to Support Interdisciplinary Energy Research and Practice—Conceptualization |
| title_sort | open digital platform to support interdisciplinary energy research and practice conceptualization |
| topic | energy research digital platform research data management |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/15/17/6417 |
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