[Esip-marinedata] Marine Data Cluster - 2020-03-12 - Vardis Tsontos

[Andrew Barna]

Here is the current github discussion regarding string (vs char array) attributes:
https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/issues/141

> On 2020-03-10, at 18:45, Carolina Berys-Gonzalez via Esip-marinedata <esip-marinedata at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:
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> Topic: Addressing Data Interoperability Challenges for Animal Telemetry Datasets
> Time: Thursday, 2020-03-12, 10:30 PT, 1:30 ET, 17:30 UTC
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> Hello all,
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> Please join us this week's call for what should be a fascinating presentation from Vardis Tsontos, “Addressing Data Interoperability Challenges for Animal Telemetry Datasets”.
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> Over the past decade, there has been a rapid proliferation of electronic tagging studies involving sensor deployments on biological sampling platforms.  The extent and importance of such data from an ocean observation, movement ecology and fisheries management perspective has prompted calls for the inclusion of animal telemetry as complementary and integral part of ocean observing system and resulted in the development of data assembly centers such as IOOS-ATN and IMOS-ATF in the US and Australia respectively.  Electronic tagging data, however, are generally characterized by data interoperability issues relating to the paucity of metadata and the use of ad hoc file formats for instrument output data files that pose significant challenges to their broader usability and long term preservation. Here I discuss some of these issues and provide an overview of the nc-eTAG specification that leverages self-describing scientific data formats (netCDF), widely used Earth Science metadata standards (CF/ACDD) and extensions to these to support the full suite of (non-acoustic) electronic tagging data types from the range of tag manufacturers.
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> Vardis is based at the NASA’s Physical oceanography data archive (PO.DAAC) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
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> Hope you can join!
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> Carolina Berys-Gonzalez
> Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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