The work package 8 meeting was held on 20 June 2014 in Évora, Portugal. Participants were: Hugues Lantuit, Vladimir Romanovsky, Gerhard Krinner, Jean-Pierre Lanckman, and Boris Biskaborn. The participants discussed the issues of NetCDF files for modellers, DOIs, the ESSD-paper on metadata statistics, data embargo, interactions with national correspondents, and the GTN-P website.