2018 ESIP Winter Meeting

Applications to use for metadata creation and curation.

To ask questions go to the sli.do for the winter meeting and choose Carpentry:
sli.do: https://app.sli.do/event/7smcrsyj 

Speakers:
Jeanné le Roux - Metadata curation dashboard
Sean Gordon -  Metadata Evaluation Web Services
John Relph - CoMET: Collection Metadata Enterprise Tool 
John Davidson and Tod Dabolt - Geoplatform.gov Object Editor 

Panel participants will share their experiences and perspectives on the uses of granule metadata.

To ask questions go to the sli.do for the winter meeting and choose Granules:
sli.do: https://app.sli.do/event/7smcrsyj 

Following the panel discussion Ted Habermann will present an initial model for variable metadata that includes spatial representations, standard names and other properties, lineage (processing and sources), data quality, additional attributes, and acquisition information.

The Information Quality Cluster (IQC) conducted two sessions at the Summer 2017 ESIP Meeting on the topic of uncertainty as it relates to data and information quality. The first was a plenary session followed by the second, a break-out session. One of the key action items recommended during the break-out session was that a clear understanding of the concept of uncertainty, and its communication to users was essential, and that the IQC should develop a white paper on this topic. The purpose of the session being proposed here is to follow-up on that action with some further discussion leading to the formulation of such a white paper. The session will consist of a brief recapitulation of the outcomes from the summer meeting, presentations on statistical and scientific perspectives on uncertainty, subtopic breakouts and regrouping for formulation of the definition (both mathematical and conceptual) and recommended usages of uncertainty (crossing all Earth Science science disciplines and ranging from quantification to characterization) that will provide the foundation for the white paper and planning further actions. Although the scientific element of the white paper discussion intends to cover interdisciplinary Earth sciences, the primary emphasis will be based on use cases involving data, sensors, and retrieval algorithms from spaceborne Earth observing systems.
Agenda:
•Introduction – David Moroni (10 min)
•Panelist Presentations (30 min):
–Jonathan Hobbs (JPL)
–Jessica Matthews (NOAA/NCEI/CICS-NC)
–Robert Wolfe (NASA/GSFC)
•Panelist Q&A and Discussion (15 min)
•Focus Group Breakout and Discussions (20 min)
•Focus Group Lightning Summary (15 min) –Provides recommendations for White Paper topics.

The Information Quality Cluster (IQC) has been active over the last several years with the following goals as expressed in the Strategic Plan: 1. Bring together people from various disciplines to assess aspects of quality of Earth science data; 2. Establish and publish baseline of standards and best practices for data quality for adoption by inter-agency and international data providers; and 3. Build a framework for consistent capture, harmonization, and presentation of data quality for the purposes of climate change studies, Earth science and applications. As a part of accomplishing these goals, the IQC has been following progress in topics related to information quality in various organizations through either direct member participation, organizing open sessions at science and informatics conferences outside of ESIP (e.g., AGU), or a slate of invited speakers at monthly telecons. The purpose of this session is to report on the IQC’s progress and collect ideas for future work and collaboration.
Agenda:

• Introduction - Ramapriyan (10 mins.)

• NASA’s Data Quality Working Group - Yaxing Wei (12 mins.)

• Data Quality Metrics for Socio-Economic Data - Bob Downs (12 mins.)

• NOAA NCEI - Ge Peng (12 mins.)

• WDS/RDA Working Group on assessment of data fitness for use - Bob Downs(12 mins.)

• DataONE - Rebecca Koskela (12 mins.)

• Discussion and ideas for further work - 20 mins.

The HDF Group has held a one day workshop during the ESIP Summer Meeting for the last five years. This session will update the ESIP community on HDF Cloud and other current topics.


Rich Signell: "Scalable, Data-Proximate, Reusable Workflows in the Cloud"