[Esip-documentation] Interesting report about open data

[Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-5860)]

Ted,

Thanks for forwarding that; it clarified something that’s been bothering me for a while now, to wit the statement:
>> "Using and Reusing the data- “Differing data structures and formats often demand disproportionate efforts before a range of datasets can be used and analysed effectively”. 

I think this is (almost completely) missing the point for data produced by scientific instruments:  it’s understanding the data measuring method and processing that is the biggest hurdle.  Just because I’m giving you a nice GeoTIFF that can be ingested into any tool doesn’t mean you know how to use it.  Unfortunately, a lot of data documentation seems to assume that it is talking to a specialist within that discipline, not to, say, an interdisciplinary scientist.

On Jul 10, 2017, at 14:29, Ted Habermann via Esip-documentation <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
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