Difference between revisions of "NOAA Sessions on NIDIS, CLASS, the Data Centers, and much much more!"
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== Metadata - One size does fit all!!== | == Metadata - One size does fit all!!== | ||
* Discussion led Ted Habermann (Ted.Habermann@noaa.gov) | * Discussion led Ted Habermann (Ted.Habermann@noaa.gov) | ||
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| + | This discussion requires that you suspend your disbelief and imagine for a bit that the title is true. Imagine that there is a metadata standard that can be used successfully for many data types served, preserved, and used by NOAA and our ESIP partners. I will use the current ISO 19115 and 19115-2 standards as a straw-person for that imaginary "universal" metadata standard. | ||
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| + | ===ISO Features=== | ||
| + | As a starting point we can consider this list of features provided by these ISO Standards. Please use these pages to describe datasets or situations which present these needs. If you are currently addressing these needs with metadata, please describe how. | ||
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| + | *[[ISO Identifiers|Do you need to unambiguously identify things using your own namespace?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Database|Do you want to manage metadata using a relational or XML database?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO REST|Do you want to serve metadata using a REST web service?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO People|Do you need to identify people in different roles?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Scope|Do you need different documentation for different parts of your data?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Extents|Do you need different documentation for different temporal and spatial subsets?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO On-Line Resources|Do you need to reference On-Line Resources?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Aggregation|Do you need to describe many kinds of aggregations?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Quality Scope|Does data quality vary within the dataset?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Compliance Reports|Do you need to track compliance with standards?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Feature Reports|Do you need to use spatial features to describe quality, like grids of quality flags?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Users|Do you need to keep track of user problems?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Source Scope|Do you need to describe sources with different spatial and temporal extents?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Requirements and Objectives|Do you need to describe requirements and objectives?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Platforms and Instruments|Do you need to describe platforms and instruments?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Rationale|Do you need to explain why you did things to the data?]] | ||
| + | *[[ISO Sharing|Do need to share data with international partners?]] | ||
Revision as of 10:37, July 13, 2008
NOAA is hosting a series of breakout sessions at the Summer ESIP Meeting and we hope you will participate. In all of these sessions, we hope to inform you of some things going on within NOAA, and more importantly, be informed BY you. Your input, feedback, and advice is critical to us! Please join in the discussions. Our initial list of topics is provided below, and of course we welcome your ideas as well... this is a wiki after all, so please feel free to add your ideas here as well.
Overall Organizer: Ken Casey (Kenneth.Casey@noaa.gov)
National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)
- "how do we organize a larger activity based upon what we learn from smaller activities".
- Discussion led by Mike Brewer (Michael.J.Brewer@noaa.gov)
The NEW Comprehensive Large Array Data Stewardship System (CLASS) - NOAA Data Center Paradigm
- "how the Open Archival Information System Reference Model is leading us into the light".
- Discussion led by Ken Casey (Kenneth.Casey@noaa.gov)
The CLASS Application Programming Interface - SNAAP!
- "could it really be that easy?".
- Discussion led by Bob Rank (Robert.Rank@noaa.gov)/Ken Casey (Kenneth.Casey@noaa.gov)
The Evolution of Data Management at NOAA
- "We are data management - how NOAA is living up to this quote form the NOAA Administrator at a previous ESIP meeting".
- Discussion led by Ken McDonald (Kenneth.Mcdonald@noaa.gov)
Metadata - One size does fit all!!
- Discussion led Ted Habermann (Ted.Habermann@noaa.gov)
This discussion requires that you suspend your disbelief and imagine for a bit that the title is true. Imagine that there is a metadata standard that can be used successfully for many data types served, preserved, and used by NOAA and our ESIP partners. I will use the current ISO 19115 and 19115-2 standards as a straw-person for that imaginary "universal" metadata standard.
ISO Features
As a starting point we can consider this list of features provided by these ISO Standards. Please use these pages to describe datasets or situations which present these needs. If you are currently addressing these needs with metadata, please describe how.
- Do you need to unambiguously identify things using your own namespace?
- Do you want to manage metadata using a relational or XML database?
- Do you want to serve metadata using a REST web service?
- Do you need to identify people in different roles?
- Do you need different documentation for different parts of your data?
- Do you need different documentation for different temporal and spatial subsets?
- Do you need to reference On-Line Resources?
- Do you need to describe many kinds of aggregations?
- Does data quality vary within the dataset?
- Do you need to track compliance with standards?
- Do you need to use spatial features to describe quality, like grids of quality flags?
- Do you need to keep track of user problems?
- Do you need to describe sources with different spatial and temporal extents?
- Do you need to describe requirements and objectives?
- Do you need to describe platforms and instruments?
- Do you need to explain why you did things to the data?
- Do need to share data with international partners?
