NASA ROSES 2009 ACCESS RFP

AQCluster Telecons

The NASA (ACCESS) Program is seeking proposals that address earth science user access to distributed web services and service registries.

NASA Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science(ACCESS) Program

• Increase the interconnectedness and reuse of IT software, techniques, and services for Earth Science
• Supports capabilities for freer movement of data and information in distributed environments

NASA 2009 ROSES Call for Proposals: ACCESS solicitation

1. Registering and finding NASA data and services: methods, tools and facilities
2. Data quality, usability, and legacy: methods, tools and facilities

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ESIP NOI for ACCESS Proposal

Details on NOI Pg. 38 of NASA Proposers Handbook

Brief Description

• Primary Research Areas
• Objectives of Proposed Research

Possible ESIP AQ Response to ACCESS CFP

Through its contributions to the GEOSS AIP, the ESIP Air Quality Workgroup appears to be in a position to submit a response. ESIP has been actively involved in the creation of the air quality community catalog and portal and their connection with the GEOSS Common Infrastructure (including the GEOSS Clearninghouses and GEOSS Registry) in providing standards-based interfaces for registering and finding data services. As the catalog, portal and overall ‘publish and find’ processes become more stable, one of the next steps is to solidify the process of ‘binding’ to and using the services.

ESIP’s investment in the AIP combined with the leveraging of Air Quality Workgroup participants own projects in creating and maintaining the air quality community components of the GEOSS AIP provides a foundation on which to address the ACCESS Program objectives. An ACCESS Program project could be an opportunity for support to enhance the community infrastructure and improve its value (aka use) and persistence by applying it to the air quality community’s activities in research, applied science and management.

The includes the following:

“Improving Earth science user access to web services and service registries: Users searching and using NASA Earth science data systems often do not have broad knowledge of services that may be available pertinent to their data of interest. Many web-based services have been created that are of direct applicability to Earth science research and applied science uses. Many of these services, however, are not easily discoverable or are exposed through very limited access points.

The ACCESS program seeks proposals that address this information gap by providing the means for users to discover and use services being made available by NASA, other Federal agencies, academia, the private sector, and others. Proposals should detail how existing services will be discovered by users and what other available data system components will be used to bolster the persistent availability of these services in both a traditional user interactive GUI interface or those using a machine-to-machine interface.”

Workgroupd Discussion Items

• Should the ESIP Air Quality Workgroup lead a proposal in response to the ACCESS solicitation?
• If so, which of the two topics: Publish-Find Services or Metadata

Schedule

• Letter of Intent due April 1.
• Proposal, June 2009