IN42B:
Conventions and Data Formats for Sharing Earth and Space Science Data

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Session ID#: 25038

Session Description:
AGU includes many communities that are striving to share data among themselves and with scientists in other disciplines. This data reuse depends on being able to discover, read, and understand the data. Discovery is addressed in many cases by large repositories of standard metadata and portals for exploring those repositories and downloading data. After the download, scientists face the second and third obstacles: reading and understanding. The capability to read data, and access it with tools, is controlled by the data format. Understanding the scientific content of the file, i.e. the internal metadata, the data types and the data, depends on community conventions for representing domain objects in data files. This session will bring together practitioners from across AGU to focus on successful approaches to addressing these obstacles. The goal of the session is to identify and elucidate data formats, conventions, and community strategies that help communities share data.
Primary Convener:  Ted Habermann, Metadata Game Changers, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Derick Hess, IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center, Socorro, NM, United States, Jialin Liu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and David Durden, Battelle, National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Derick Hess, IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center, Socorro, NM, United States and Ted Habermann, Metadata Game Changers, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ted Habermann, Metadata Game Changers, Boulder, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

1904 Community standards [INFORMATICS]
1912 Data management, preservation, rescue [INFORMATICS]
1936 Interoperability [INFORMATICS]
1976 Software tools and services [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Hierarchical Data Format as a Foundation for Community Data Sharing (292300)
Ted Habermann, Metadata Game Changers, Boulder, United States
Improving Seismic Data Accessibility and Performance Using HDF Containers (222706)
Jingbo Wang1, Rui Yang2 and Benjamin James Kingston Evans1, (1)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (2)Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
The survey on data format of Earth observation satellite data at JAXA. (246239)
Masumi Matsunaga, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan and Yousuke Ikehata, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Satellite Applications and Operations Center (SAOC), Tsukuba, Japan
Usability and Interoperability Improvements for an EASE-Grid 2.0 Passive Microwave Data Product Using CF Conventions (296488)
Mary J. Brodzik, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Molly Hardman, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States and David G Long, Brigham Young University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Provo, United States

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