Winter Meeting 2011 - Session Abstracts

CECWG

The ESIP Education committee is forming a Climate Change Education Working Group (CCEWG) to support member’s climate education initiatives. The Working Group will commence with a 90 minute panel-led town hall meeting featuring experts from several ESIP member organizations, including but not limited to NASA, NOAA, GLOBE, EPA, NSF, CLN and GLOBE. This will be followed by a group discussion to establish common ground. After the break we'll reconvene to set a course of action for 2011.

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ESIP 101

The ESIP Federation has grown its membership during the past several years and has evolved its activities during the same time. For those new to the ESIP Federation or anyone interested in learning more about its activities, join us for an overview presentation that will highlight the history, current activities, opportunities for involvement and how to become a partner. Session leader: Carol Meyer, Jim Frew

Data Preservation

Citation Guidelines and Identifiers

Citation and reproducibility are key concepts underpinning the science enterprise. Given that data have become central to the scientific process in many fields, the ability to cite data in a uniform manner is becoming increasingly important. For these reasons, the Stewardship and Preservation cluster of the ESIP federation has agreed to work on citation recommendations for both data providers and data users over the upcoming year. One of the core issues for citation is data identification, a topic that the cluster has addressed through its identifier assessment and testbed activities. In this session, the status of current data citation practice is reviewed, an update of cluster activities will be given, and a work plan for moving forward over the next year in these areas will be developed.

Towards an Earth Science Provenance and Context content standard sessions

During the first session in this two part track, existing guidance on what information needs to be kept in order to ensure usability and trustability of Earth Science data will be described and discussed. John Moses of NASA will also describe the reality as compared to this guidance as it applies to several NASA missions. Given this background, the remainder of these sessions will be dedicated to developing an action plan for the Preservation and Stewardship cluster to move forward with the development of a content standard for Earth Science provenance and context.

Towards an Earth Science Provenance and Context ontology sessions

During the first session in this two part track, an overview of the leading provenance ontologies will be given, the gaps in these ontologies for Earth Sciences reviewed, and a number of pre-existing use cases discussed. Over the course of the session, additional use cases will be developed and a plan or roadmap for developing an Earth Science specific Provenance/Context Ontology within the cluster will be developed.

Cluster business meeting

The cluster will hold its annual officer election and flesh out its work plan for the next year based on the results of the previous sessions and a discussion of the existing testbed activities.