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Contents of this guide

This quick start guide will briefly introduce you to the EPISODES Platform , showing you the registration process, main menus and symbols. You will also see an example scenario how the Platform can be used to work with its data and applications. Each main page of the platform is additionally described on the subsequent pages of this documentation:

Citations

When publishing results obtained using EPISODES PLATFORM, please cite the following articles: 

• Orlecka-Sikora, B., Lasocki, S., Kocot, J. et al. (2020)  An open data infrastructure for the study of anthropogenic hazards linked to georesource exploitation. , Sci Data 7, 89, doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-0429-3.
• Lasocki, S. and Orlecka-Sikora, B. (2016)  Integrated approach to geophysical hazards induced by exploration and exploitation of georesources - to facilitate the way of attaining excellence , EPOS Newsletter 1, July 2016
• Leptokaropoulos, K., Cielesta, S., Staszek, M. et al. (2019).  IS-EPOS: A Platform For Anthropogenic Seismicity Research,  Acta Geophysica, 67(1), pp. 299-310, doi:10.1007/s11600-018-0209-z.

Data contained within the Platform also have their citing information provided in a How to cite section of each episode to which the data belongs (see also page AH Episodes of this guide).

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Registration/Sign up

The EPISODES web platform at https://tcs.ah-epos.eu is so far available in English, French and Polish. If a user has already an account, he/she can easily log in by clicking on the 'LOGIN' tab (top right corner of Figure 1) and simply providing the e-mail address and password. To create an account, the user shall click on either the 'SIGN UP' tab (blue button, the right top corner of Figure 1). The fields that the user is requested to fill are shown in Figure 2. After submitting the registration form the system verifies the provided affiliation and the user can hereinafter log in the EPISODES web platform.

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Figure 1. Start Page of the EPISODES Platform.

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Figure 2. Registration form to sign up.

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Logging in

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Affiliations

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EPISODES HOME PAGE

The home page of the EPISODES Platform is shown in Figure 3 . The user may switch among (from left to right, Field 1, Figure 3 ) the Platform Start Page, the EPISODES portal (demonstrated in Figure 3 ), Documents repository and Support. This latter field includes a shortcut to Platform User Guide, the Platform Forum and a contact form in order to submit queries and comments to EPISODES team. The portal grants access to three major facility categories: The AH Episodes (database), the Applications (Field 2, Figure 3 ) and the User's Workspace (Field 3,  Figure 3 ). In the Workspace the user may upload and use the available data and Applications at any combination. In the example of Figure 3 the AH-Episodes category is selected and the user may select an Episode from the list or filter this list by either involvement in particular Project or Impacting Factor (Field 4, Figure 3 ). In such way the user obtains access to the selected Episode. Alternatively, advanced data search can be performed (Field 5, Figure 3 ), which provides a plethora of additional filtering and searching options. The user may edit his/her profile and affiliations as well as request access to particular Project-related Episodes and Applications (Field 6, Figure 3 ). Finally, the User may choose  the operational language of the EPISODES Platform between English ('EN'), French ('FR') and Polish ('PL') (Field 7, Figure 3) .To log out, the user has to click on the icon shown in Field 8 of Figure 3 .  

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Figure 3. AH Episodes Main Page of EPISODES Platform with the basic features and available functionalities

TABS AND ICONS

Most of the command tabs are self-explanatory (such as 'search', 'plot', 'map', 'show', 'Add to workspace', etc).

The 'Actions' tab provide a list of actions:

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Contact form

For brief guide see: Contact form page of EPISODES Platform Documentation.

Example of estimating stationary seismic hazard (SSH) parameters from a catalog.

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Step 2: Select a data type from the list (e.g. ‘Catalog’ in this example). There are several data types available with respect to the episode and the induced seismicity technology:

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Step 3: Once the user selects one data type, access is granted to data attributes, numerical values and visualization applications. For further data processing the user has to click on the "Actions" tab and then on the 'ADD TO WORKSPACE' window which appears right below (red frame at the top right corner of Figure below). There are several options for that, either add as a link or a copy to a selected location (directory). The data has now moved to the workspace and can be processed by the means of any Applications and Visualization tools:

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Step 4: Once the selected data are uploaded in the workspace (a file has appeared in the workspace tree), the user may click either on the three dots icon to the right of 'SONG_TRANH_catalog.mat' or on the 'Actions' tab (right top corner of the figure) in order to use these data in one of the available applications as shown in the figure below. 'Source size distribution functions/ Stationary Hazard' is selected in this case:

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Step 6: The process soon terminates and the status changes to 'Finished'. The results of the process include a report with parameters values previously selected by the user and then estimated by the system (blue panel in the figure) and two charts plotting the PDF and CDF of the magnitude distribution, respectively, as functions of magnitude. The figures may be printed or downloaded by clicking on the icons indicated in the red frame of the figure. Options for figure handling are available below the charts. 

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Step 7: The output of the Application contains files in matlab format (.mat files shown in the blue frame of the Figure below). These files can be further used in a variety of actions including downloading, copying and use in other applications e.g. for estimating the Mean Return Period (red frames in the Figure below).

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EPISODES Platform and EPOS

The EPISODES Platform is the core of Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazard (TCS-AH), an e-research infrastructure of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS). TCS AH is one of 10 thematic core services forming EPOS, a solid earth science European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). It is integrated within the EPOS Integrated Core Service (ICS), providing additional opportunities for interoperability with different scientific communities engaged in solid earth science.

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Additional resources

IS-EPOS webpage: http://is-epos.eu/home,2,en.html

EPOS webpage: http://www.epos-eu.org/

EPISODES Platform User Guide : https://docs.cyfronet.pl/display/ISDOC/

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