Products and Services

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Monthly Teleconference

The Products and Services Standing Committee holds a teleconference on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 12:30pm PST (3:30pm EST).

Next call

Tuesday March 28, 2006
800-508-7631 Access Code: *1297219*

Discussion topic: Data Quality

  • What common data quality standards can the Federation offer within the Earth Information Exchange?
  • What dimensions of quality should be considered?
  • How can we enforce these standards within the Earth Information Exchange?
  • What 3rd party ratings can we support?
  • Are there similar ratings for "data services"?



Past Discussions:

Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records
Data Quality

Issues being addressed by Products and Service Standing Committee

  • How to deal with metadata records that have been harvested by multiple sources?


Charge to Standing Committee from Bylaws Section 2

V.2.1 The ESIP Federation shall include a Standing Committee on Earth Science Products and Services. Its roles are:

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.