NOAA Data User Workshops
During the January 6-8, 2009 ESIP Federation meeting, NOAA/NESDIS will conduct a series of workshops related to the topics below. The workshops will be designed to not only educate data users about the many things NOAA is offering but to elicit feedback from those in attendance. This page is for sharing topic ideas under the initial tracks that have been identified. Please note that the information on this page is a work in progress and not the final program description.
Access Tools for Targeting Environmental Information Users
Track Leader, Timothy W. Owen, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
CLASS SNAAP API
Abstract: [Coming Soon]
Climate Portal
Abstract: [Coming Soon]
IOOS
Abstract: [Coming Soon]
Portal Tools for Targeting Climate Information Users: The NIDIS Experience
Timothy W. Owen and Michael J. Brewer NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center Asheville, North Carolina
Abstract: Translation of scientific information for targeted user groups is a critical challenge facing the development of any comprehensive climate services framework. This talk explores the lessons learned from the development of a National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) portal (drought.gov) to this end. The NIDIS portal focuses on communities of shared user interest, distinct tabular and map-based data accessibility pathways, and the judicious use of database crawlers to incorporate new and emerging data and information. These foci are informing the development of a climate services portal within NOAA scheduled for initial release in 2009.
- List Potential Topics Here
Data Stewardship At the NOAA Data Centers
Track Leader: Kenneth Casey, NOAA's National Ocaeanographic Data Center
Abstract: NOAA maintains three Data Centers: the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Each of these data centers is responsible for preserving data and information over the long term for their respective user communities, and each is also working toward providing broader, more comprehensive data stewardship. Included within this emerging concept are activities such as data archaeology and rescue, quality assurance and monitoring, and the generation of value-added products to meet user requirements. Please join NOAA representatives and managers in a discussion of these and related issues, and help the NOAA Data Centers refine their focus on data stewardship and chart a course for the future.
- Data Archaeology and Rescue - Data centers routinely seek to acquire and preserve information that is in danger of being lost forever, from causes as diverse as deteriorating storage media to retiring principal investigators who never submitted their data to an archive. Participants are encouraged to discuss with the Data Centers their needs, areas of focus, and new technologies to support these rescue efforts.
- Long Term Archive and Access - Preserving data and information in the digital age - and making it accessible in meaningful ways - presents new challenges (and opportunities!) to archives that must ensure their information remains available through the next technological revolution. Participants are encouraged to look forward and share with the Data Centers their thoughts and predictions on what that revolution might look like, and what the Data Centers can do to prepare.
- Quality Monitoring for Long Term Applications - While many observing systems include quality monitoring for real or near real time applications, Data Centers must also be concerned with the sometimes more subtle and difficult to detect long term changes. Quality assurance from an archive perspective is also critical to avoid the "garbage in - garbage out" problem that can occur when data streams flow into the archives unchecked and unmonitored. Participants are...
- Value-Added Databases and Authoritative Long Term Records
- Keeping Pace with Evolving Communities
