[Esip-preserve] Stewardship Best Practices: availability of source code

Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102) christopher.s.lynnes at nasa.gov
Wed Oct 6 12:27:49 EDT 2010


On Oct 6, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Cook, Robert B. wrote:

> 
> I wanted to let you know that in practice the ORNL DAAC has been archiving and distributing source code for terrestrial biosphere models for several years.  The rationale for this practice can be found in the following Eos  article from 2005:
> http://daac.ornl.gov/MODELS/EOS_Model_Archiving_Thornton.pdf
> 
> The ORNL DAAC's archive of model source code can be found on our Web site:
> http://daac.ornl.gov/models.shtml
> 
> Another approach for keeping track of processing steps is scientific workflow, such as Taverna, VisTrails, and Kepler (Science Pipes).

Hmmm...here's an interesting project for a summer intern:  take a piece of the "classic" science processing chains (e.g., MODIS L1) and reimplement it in Taverna...
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Dr. Christopher Lynnes     NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2    phone: 301-614-5185




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