NASA ROSES 2009 ACCESS RFP

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

< Air Quality Work Group

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


NASA 2009 ROSES Call for Proposals: ACCESS solicitation

Area of Interest 1: Registering and finding NASA data and services: methods, tools and facilities

  • Many web-based ES applicable services have been created
  • However, these are are not accessible or easily discoverable

The ACCESS program seeks proposals to:

  • Provide means for users to discover and use services provided by NASA, other Agencies, academia..
    • Detail how services will be discovered by users
    • What data system components will be used to bolster the persistent availability of these services
      • through GUI interface or
      • machine-to-machine interface

Area of Interest 2: Improving knowledge of NASA’s Earth science data quality and production legacy:

  • Users need substantial information about product quality, usability, and legacy of inputs and processes to these data.
  • Substantial data quality and processing lineage of the data products offered.
  • However, it is not available with the data delivered, nor is it included in attached metadata.

NASA is seeking proposals that help users better interpret data product metadata, read me files, and other associated materials.

  • Including methods for improving data product knowledge
  • [DataSpaces] for connecting users to product information; best practices, known errors, etc.
  • Describe metrics used to verify the impact of enhanced data product on achieving science goals and ES research.

Additional Requrements

  • Serve the research and applied science – include IT and Earth science experts.
  • Identify the Earth science focus area and tie to an Earth science research issue(s)
  • Identify the improvements of by the proposed tools/services.
  • Provide an operations concept for continuance of the tools and services
  • ES Data and Software rights, life-cycle cost for the targeted users.
  • Encourages Edu/Outreach supplement, tool or service life cycle, continued operation after ACCESS.

ESIP NOI for ACCESS Proposal

Details on NOI Pg. 38 of NASA Proposers Handbook

Short Title (50 Char)

Service Oriented Data System for Air Quality (SODAQ)

Sharing, Finding and Using Air Quality Services

Adoptive, Collaborative, AQ DataSystema

Long Title (254 Char)

Service Oriented Data System for Air Quality (SODAQ)

Sharing, Finding and Using Air Quality Services

Adoptive, Collaborative, AQ DataSystema

Outline

  • Lots of data resources in NASA, elsewhere
  • Not available as data as services
  • if it is a service, e.g. openDaP, may need rich clients, hard coded, loose coupling not easy
  • Even if reusable service is available it cannot be found.


  • Service Orientation, while accepted has not been widely adapted for serving NASA products
  • SOA allows the creation of loosely coupled, agile, data systems
  • SOA -> requires ability to Publish, Find, Bind (Register, Discover, Access)
  • While, binding to data through standard data access protocols, publishing and finding requires metadata system
  • Metadata system for publishing and finding content has to be jointly developed between data providers and users.
  • Generic catalog systems - metadata collection of not only what provider has done but also tracking what users need
  • Communication along the value chain, in both direction;
  • Metadata the glue and the message
  • Market approach; many providers; many users; may products

Names of Co-Is and Collaborators

To be added.

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

RBH Apr 1 09:

  • ACCESS is for development, not for maintenance - how we phrase it?
  • Tone down operational. Want be near TR7 this summer.
  • Lots of work on service standard, metadata standard, discovery standard; metadata flow
  • ACCESS calls for finding, accessing NASA products ??, not GEOSS. Need to phrase it as both.
  • Should use this platform for including EPA, NASA, DOE +++ International Orgs into the Publish/Find/Bind system

Schedule

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