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*Make ESIP testbed activities more visible to the public.
 
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Ultimate Benefit: Promotion of expert skills available within the Federation.
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The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent naming schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship.  These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles and must include versioning representations.  Many naming options have been promoted, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination.  Two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating facets (dimensions) not relevant to classification schemes for books (Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal).
 
The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent naming schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship.  These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles and must include versioning representations.  Many naming options have been promoted, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination.  Two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating facets (dimensions) not relevant to classification schemes for books (Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal).
 
This testbed registers several Federation datasets to multiple naming conventions to evaluate the practical differences between them.
 
This testbed registers several Federation datasets to multiple naming conventions to evaluate the practical differences between them.
Ultimate Benefit: Permanent, unique names for data Federation data products.
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== Data and information Quality ==
 
== Data and information Quality ==
 
The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies.  The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings.  
 
The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies.  The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings.  
Ultimate Benefit: Better classification and discovery of specialized Federation products and services
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== Re-usable Metadata Editor ==
 
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Develop a generic, reusable software system to facilitate the support for multiple metadata standards and their variations.
 
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== Data Stewardship ==
 
== Data Stewardship ==
The Air Quality Working Group has been developing an inventory of air quality data and data services.  Other GEOSS Societal Benefit Areas could benefit from a similar capability to highlight offerings from Federation members.  For this task, the Air Quality has been cloned for use by other application areas. Initially, a Water portal has been developed.
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Explore & document the operational & implementation issues resulting from assignment of citable Identifiers to data content resources at both the data set and granule / component level
Ultimate Benefit: Better marketing of targeted Federation products and services.
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Revision as of 13:18, May 9, 2012

Back to: Products and Services

Products and Services Testbed

Objectives: Provide a test environment where prototype standards, services, protocols, and best practices can be explored and evaluated. The testbed serves as a forum for innovative collaborations across all sectors of the Federation to improve availability and access to our member products and services for mutual benefit. Comments about each testbed activity can be shared on this page. Past Testbed Tasks

Current or Ongoing Testbed Activities

Amazon Web Services best practices

ESIP has opened an Amazon Web Services account that can be leveraged to provide virtual instances for accessing the testbed projects. In an effort to save pain and share experiences, please read and contribute to the ESIP Testbed Amazon Web Services Best Practices topic if you are going to work on the Amazon instances or have and want to contribute insight.

Testbed Portal

(Chen Xu, Jing Li, Chaowei Yang)

  • Support ESIP members to interact with hosted testbed activities;
  • Support interactivities between ESIP members and testbed task developers;
  • Make ESIP testbed activities more visible to the public.

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Discovery Services and Clients

The Preservation and Stewardship Cluster and the NASA Technology Infusion Working Group have been considering permanent naming schemes for data products http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Preservation_and_Stewardship. These identifiers can serve as references in journal articles and must include versioning representations. Many naming options have been promoted, but the best choices for Earth science data require careful examination. Two datasets may differ only in format, byte order, data type, access method, etc., creating facets (dimensions) not relevant to classification schemes for books (Library of Congress, Dewey Decimal). This testbed registers several Federation datasets to multiple naming conventions to evaluate the practical differences between them.

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Data and information Quality

The Semantic Web Cluster has been developing ontologies for Data Service, Data types, and science concepts http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Data_Service_Ontologies. The testbed enables providers to register their products and services semantically, which will provide more precise descriptions of their offerings.

Ultimate Benefit:

Comments:


Re-usable Metadata Editor

(Jerry Yun Pan, Nigel Banks)
Develop a generic, reusable software system to facilitate the support for multiple metadata standards and their variations.

Ultimate Benefit: : Comments:


Data Stewardship

Explore & document the operational & implementation issues resulting from assignment of citable Identifiers to data content resources at both the data set and granule / component level

Ultimate Benefit:

Comments:

Testbed FY 2011 Proposal Effort

The Products and Services committee submitted a proposal for new Testbed activities to the ESIP Finance and Appropriations Committee for suggested funding of the efforts. The proposal is available for review here (doc) and (pdf) .

The funding proposal was approved so below is the Request for Proposal solicitation to all ESIP members to encourage proposals for participation in building the new Testbed functionality. (pdf)

The Testbed Configuration Board decided Task 1 (Testbed Portal Development) needed to be kept more focused on the Drupal development of a site that would integrate with the ESIP portal, so it has been re-drafted and sent back out for new responses. The revised RFP for Task 1 is here: (pdf).