Regional community datasets must be uploaded to the hosted data services, as outlined by WP4. The submission of the data will be performed by the responsible scientist, who will submit, alongside the data, the form included in the Data Management Plan, with information about the description, format, size, type and associated metadata, as well as contact details of the responsible scientist. Upon submission, the respective Scientific Community leader will perform a quality check, a unique Persistent Identifier (PID) will be assigned to the dataset, and the data will become available for use, directly from the VRE portal.

The following steps should be followed when uploading a dataset: 

1. Based on the type of dataset select the VI-SEEM data service that it should be uploaded to  
   1. VI-SEEM data repository 
   2. Application specific services
   3. External service (link to the data) 
2.  Upload a dataset to the VI-SEEM data repository
3.  Upload the dataset to the selected service
   
   1. Upload a dataset to LAS (Climate Scientific Community)
   2. Upload a dataset to Clowder (DCH Scientific Community)
4. Contact the Quality control and Quality assurance officers so that (s)he performs the Quality Check

   Partner	QA/QC officer	Contact Details
   Greece	Kyriakos Ginis	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Cyprus	Panayiotis Charalambous	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Bulgaria	Vladimir Dimitrov	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Serbia	Petar Jovanovic	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Hungary	Lajos Bálint	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Romania	Marian Neagul	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Albania	Marin Aranitasi	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Bosnia and Herzegovina	Vladimir Risojevic	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   FYR of Macedonia	Sonja Filiposka	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Montenegro	Lidija Milosavljevic	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Moldova	Mihail Matenco	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Armenia	Artashes Mirzoyan	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Georgia	Ramaz Kvatadze	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Egypt	Mohammed Elfarargy	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Israel	Zivan Yoash	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
   Jordan	Mostafa Zoubi	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

    
5. Contact the Scientific Community Leader to inform about the submission
   1. Climate Scientific Community: Theo Chistoudias 
   2. DCH Scientific Community: Georgios Artopoulos
   3. Life Sciences Scientific Community: Zoe Cournia 
6. Get a Persistent Identifier for your dataset
7. Fill the Data Submission Form
8. Sent the form along any other relevant information (training material and documentation) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in order for the dataset to be linked through the VRE Portal

Data should be FAIR - The uploaded data should be in accordance with Fair Principles. The specifications for data quality following the FAIR principles have been produced and are available at the following link: https://vi-seem.eu/how-to-contribute-fair-data/ 

Delete Data - Data set owners have the right to delete any dataset which they have submitted earlier, from the VI-SEEM repositories. The corresponding process has been documented and is available at the following link: https://vi-seem.eu/deleting-a-dataset-from-the-vi-seem-repositories/