Talk:NARSTO 5min

NARSTO in GEOSS -- Erinmr 14:25, 8 December 2009 (EST)

I’ve tried to capture in a very draft figure (attached) the results of our discussion yesterday. Please feel free to correct/expand the figure as needed and send it back or give me call to clarify what I’ve missed. I’d like to go through an iteration or two before distribution. We do have additional metadata for each of our data sets (not data files). I think this may be what you refer to as access metadata. Are you familiar with GCMD and their DIF metadata content and format? We prepare a version of that when we submit our data sets to the Langley DAAC. It’s on the ftp site too. (St. Louis aethalometer DIF file is not on the ftp site yet.)

We also have our NARSTO data sets (most of them) indexed in a Mercury metadata search tool. http://mercdev3.ornl.gov/narsto/. (Our metadata editor creates the .xml file that gets harvested and indexed.) If you view a full metadata record, go the very end of the page, you’ll see a “View Metadata Source” link. This links to the metadata .xml file. I was talking with Giri Palanisamy, our resident FGDC and ISO metadata expert, about this activity and he mentioned that a new North American version of ISO19115 is about to be released. Giri is available to consult as needed.