[Esip-disasters] ESIP Disasters cluster request for letter of commitment - RSVP 3/11/15

[Moe, Karen (GSFC-4070)]

Greetings,

Attached is a letter of support for an EarthCube proposal indicating that our Disasters Life Cycle cluster/community is interested and commits to supporting the proposed workshops, should the EarthCube proposal be selected. We determined that their objectives for defining ‘advertising’ metadata tags for web-based data discovery and access was very much in line with our goals of generating and evaluating disasters data products and services. As we won’t have another DLC cluster telecon until after Ruth and her team need to submit their proposal (they need the letter by this Wednesday), we are sending this info along via email.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any comments. Hopefully you will agree that getting involved in workshops to address how best to advertise DLC products to the disasters management community would be mutually beneficial.

Thanks,
Karen and Emily





From: Ruth Ellen Duerr <rduerr at colorado.edu<mailto:rduerr at colorado.edu>>
Subject: ESIP Disasters Cluster - defining community-based content for data ads?
Date: February 17, 2015 at 11:50:02 AM MST
To: "Law, Emily S (3980)" <emily.s.law at jpl.nasa.gov<mailto:emily.s.law at jpl.nasa.gov>>, "Moe, Karen (GSFC-4070)" <karen.moe at nasa.gov<mailto:karen.moe at nasa.gov>>

Hi Emily, Karen,

I don’t know much about the Disasters cluster, though its great to see the activity about identifying disaster-related data sources.

Siri Jodha and I are planning to submit a proposal to NSF's EarthCube call for Integrative Activities, and are looking for communities that tend to have a large amount of data that isn't in central repositories. We aim to provide an online tool that generates OpenSearch documents for people to put on their websites so that the "Google for Data" web crawler that we've designed can find and aggregate them. We plan to propose a series of workshops with targeted communities where we would allow the community to define the core content of these ads. Our objective would not be to set a standard for full metadata records, but only the fields would be most useful in advertisements. For example, temporal resolution, quality assessments, access restrictions, etc.

Do you think that there would be adequate interest within your community for this sort of self-advertisement process for data?  If so, we can talk more by phone about our plans.

Ruth

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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

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Ruth Duerr
Data Stewardship and Informatics Lead
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 80309
(303) 735-0136
rduerr at nsidc.org<mailto:rduerr at nsidc.org>

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