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The SWIT-eSWua system: managing, preservation and sharing of the historical and near real-time ionospheric data at the INGV
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  • Emanuele Pica,
  • Carlo Marcocci,
  • Claudio Cesaroni,
  • Enrico Zuccheretti,
  • Michael Pezzopane,
  • Simone Vecchi,
  • Vincenzo ROMANO,
  • Luca SPOGLI
Emanuele Pica
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)

Corresponding Author:emanuele.pica@ingv.it

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Carlo Marcocci
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
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Claudio Cesaroni
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
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Enrico Zuccheretti
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
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Michael Pezzopane
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
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Simone Vecchi
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
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Vincenzo ROMANO
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
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Luca SPOGLI
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
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Abstract

The Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) has a long tradition in collecting scientific data to support upper atmosphere physics research. In addition to the historical equipment no longer operative, an ever-growing number of permanent observatories at high, low, and middle latitudes are part of the INGV network dedicated to the ionospheric and Space Weather monitoring. The management of the data produced by such a dynamic infrastructure required the development of an IT system capable to fulfill several requirements. Among them, the capability to manage and provide access to the continuous flow of information produced by the remote instruments and, at the same time, guarantee the preservation and availability of the historical series, a valuable legacy of this scientific field. To meet these needs, the SWIT-eSWua system was developed and has recently came into operation. The SWIT (Space Weather Information Technology) database management system can store a huge amount of spatially and temporally distributed data, standardizing the observations performed by different instruments and making them available in near real-time. The system is based on open-source software and containers-based virtualization, an architecture that potentially could be deployed in other research facilities to realize a distributed ionospheric monitoring network. The eSWua (electronic Space Weather upper atmosphere) access layer includes several services that allow to share these data with the scientific community. The web-platform (www.eswua.ingv.it) allows to explore, analyse and download all the different kind of historical and real-time data collected by SWIT at multiple levels of elaboration. A dedicated RESTful web-service, a registry for the metadata, the implementation of open data policy and persistent identifiers are just some of the other components which are being integrated into this layer. This work will provide a global view of the SWIT-eSWua architecture and describe the best practices implemented toward the long-term preservation of these data and the realization of a FAIR ecosystem.