Summer 2007 Session: Agency Standards Adoption

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

Agency Standards Adoption Session Summary

What multi-agency groups already exist that are interested in standards? ESIP, FGDC, OSTP Data Sharing Committee, CODATA, US-GEO, GEOSS, CEOS, World Data Centers (ICSU)

How do we use these existing groups effectively?

How do we aggregate and present to the community the benefits that projects have achieved from using standards? Journals – CODATA Data Science Journal, new Earth Informatics Journal

How do we aggregate and present to the community / management the costs of not using standards? (this is sometimes embarrassing to the agencies)

   Deaddata.org – a web-based community that leverages mass
   collaboration to read datasets that have become separated from their
   documentation.
   Special Sessions at AGU?

Led by Ted Habermann