Products and Services

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

Monthly Teleconference

Next telecon: Friday May 15, 2:30pm EDT (11:30am PDT)
Dial: 800-508-7631
Access Code: *1297219*

Agenda:

Summer Meeting activities
Testbed of standards, metadata, and protocols -
- Proposal Version0515
- Revised Proposal to Federation
- Original version: Proposal to Federation

Committee E-mail List

http://rtpnet.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-products

Telecon Minutes:

P&S Monthly Apr 17, 2009
P&S Monthly Mar 20, 2009
P&S Monthly Feb 24, 2009
P&S Monthly August 29, 2006
P&S Monthly May 23, 2006
P&S Monthly April 25, 2006
P&S Monthly March 28, 2006

Topics of Interest

Improving metadata compliance within ESIP Federation
Metadata for data quality, services, and provenance
Representation of versioning
Peer-reviewed datasets
Permanent dataset names, parameter names, registries, and identifiers
Metadata harvesting and exchange and associated catalog services
Client access to catalogs
Service quality
Data Quality
Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records
Federation Inventory

Possible Summer Meeting Activities

Metadata Showcase/Fair
Technical Workshop
Service Showcase

Metadata Clearinghouses for ESIP Products and Services

ECHO
GCMD
GCMD ESIP Data Portal
GCMD ESIP Data Services Portal
Geospatial One-Stop

Data Standards

ECHO Data Model
GCMD DIF
FGDC
[ISO 19115]

Service Standards

GCMD SERF
OGC
OPeNDAP

Data Ontologies

Data types
Data services
Space-time
Earth system science

Use Cases

AQ Use Case 3: Publish, Harvest, and Query Metadata via Clearinghouse

Purpose (from ESIP Bylaws)

a. To encourage the development, use and improvement of best science practices to ensure the quality, usability, and breadth of data and resultant information, products, and services;
b. To provide a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for Federation Earth science products; and
c. To provide a Federation-wide forum for defining, developing and evaluating requirements for product services and user services.

About

Committee Chair: Rob Raskin, JPL
Committee Vice-Chair: Tyler Stevens, GCMD

References

  1. ECHO - Enabling Interoperability with NASA Earth science data snd services
  2. AQ Use Case 3: Publish, Harvest, and Query Metadata via Clearinghouse