The Open Energy Family aims to ensure quality, transparency and - reproducibility in energy - system research. It is a collection of various - tools and information that help working - with energy related data. It is a collaborative community effort, everything - is - openly developed and therefore constantly evolving.
-The main module is the Open Energy Platform (OEP), - a web interface to access most of the modules, especially the community - database. - It provides a way to publish data with proper documentation (metadata), and - link it to source - code and underlying assumptions.
-The address the problem of different name and data(base) formats, the - Open Energy Ontology - (OEO) - was developed. The ontology provides a controlled vocabulary with clear - definitions of terms and relationships between those terms. - Data annotation adds the possibility of enhanced searching functions and - logical querying across data sets. +
+ The Open Energy Family promotes quality, transparency, and reproducibility in + energy system research through a + collection of tools, + all developed openly. The primary module, the Open Energy Platform (OEP), offers a + web interface for accessing various tools and the community database, allowing users + to publish data with proper documentation.
- - -Openly licensed data relevant in the field of climate and energy research can - be published and accessed here. Especially energy system modelling data and - scenarios can be found, along with further information on the underlying - models, frameworks and studies.
-Energy system models are used to explore the current and future energy - systems and are often applied to questions involving the expansion of - renewables and energy storages as well as energy and climate policy. The - models themselves vary widely in terms of their type, design, programming, - application, scope, level of detail, sophistication, and shortcomings.
-The OEP considers the entire modelling process from the preprocessing of the - raw data, the simulations, the postprocessing of the result data. The heart - of the OEP is the underlying - Open Energy - Database (OEDB), - which can be used by everyone and is maintained by a team of developers from - different - institutes. +
+ To address the recurring issue of varying names and data(base) formats, the + Open Energy Ontology (OEO) + was developed. This ontology offers a controlled vocabulary with clear definitions + of terms and the relationships between them. By annotating data with the OEO, + enhanced search functions and logical queries across data sets are possible.
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+ + The platform provides openly licensed data relevant to climate and energy research, + including scenario projection data, qualitative information about scenarios, and + information about the models used to calculate projection data based on scenarios. +
+We follow and promote the principles of - Open Science - and offer an open infrastructure for energy system research. - The focus is on Open Data and the provision of modelling results under open - licenses. - The OEP uses an extensive metadata set, the - OEMetadata. - It is based on the - Tabular - Data Package - specifications and the - FAIR principles - to improve the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of - digital assets. +
+ The OEP adheres to + Open Science principles + by offering an open research data infrastructure for climate and energy system + research, emphasising the publishing of data and information under open licenses. + The platform uses an extensive metadata set, + OEMetadata, to + adhere to the + FAIR principles: the + findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reuse of digital assets.
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The Open Energy Family is a cross-project research project that is - continuously being developed by - various universities and institutes. The source code of all members of the - family is - open source and accessible on GitHub. - Get involved and contribute!
- ++ The Open Energy Family is a collaborative project involving various universities and + institutes, with all source code available on + GitHub. The project encourages + community involvement and contributions. +
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- Update the OpenEnergyFamily group picture on the about page [(#1816)](https://github.com/OpenEnergyPlatform/oeplatform/pull/1816)
- Update existing ontology layout [(#1850)](https://github.com/OpenEnergyPlatform/oeplatform/pull/1850)
+- Enhance the OEP-about page content and layout [(#1859)](https://github.com/OpenEnergyPlatform/oeplatform/pull/1859).
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## Features
- Add the OEP-extended (oeo-ext) feature. It enables users to create new composed units (ontology classes) that extent the units available in the OEO. The feature is implemented as a plugin html form, it can be easily added to any Webpage of the oeplatform. [(#1680)](https://github.com/OpenEnergyPlatform/oeplatform/pull/1680)