GHRC 2015 UWG Agenda

Opening Remarks

• NASA HQ (Murphy)
• NASA ESDIS (Berrick)
• UWG Chair (Gentemann, Kummerow)

• Recommendation 1: Evaluate and update the GHRC mission and objectives in coordination with the UWG, ESDIS, and Program Managers at NASA HQ.
• Recommendation 2: Develop a 5-10 year vision for GHRC and ensure the new website reflects that message.

• Recommendation 7:  Review NOAA and PO.DAAC data lifecycle documents.
• Recommendation 8:  Create a data lifecycle process for GHRC that can be applied to current and future holdings.
• Recommendation 10: Develop a data maturity model for GHRC data.  Provide this on website and include maturity information for each dataset.

• Recommendation 4: Carry out dataset holdings analysis and create a reporting structure that categorizes what is available at GHRC and possibly elsewhere. This compilation should enable prioritization of efforts that will fill the most significant data voids, where these efforts align with the new GHRC mission.

• Recommendation 6: Determine a set of useful user metrics, with feedback obtained from the UWG, that can be routinely updated and made available to the NASA sponsor, UWG and broader community. Analysis of these metrics should inform the 5-10 year plan.
• Recommendation 5: Update public dataset information pages to include data holding analysis results that might be helpful to the user community.

• Recommendation 13: Update the ‘cite our data’ webpage to include DOI in all the examples given and include a link to the ‘cite our data’ page on individual dataset information pages

• Recommendation 14: Communicate with the LPDAAC to understand their transition to HTTPS process. Provide highly visible examples, links to examples via email, and as much visibility as possible to ease the transition. A page with examples of different methods to download data, accompanied by example code, would be helpful

• Recommendation 15: Look at netCDF4 as an internal data format, define common CF-compliant metadata for each data type, and develop tools that will check for metadata compliance

• Suggestion 4: Continue web search optimization

• Recommendation 12: Develop a single tool that can provide broad use to multiple field campaigns and data types
• Suggestion 1: Ease of use should be paramount to GHRC. Supplying APIs in both IDL and Python that allow users to download datasets from their local machines is highly desirable

• Improvements to Data Portfolio (Conover)
• Improvements to Operations - Data Ingest (Conover)
  • Suggestion 3: Provide fixed single browse image for most products
  • Recommendation 9: Develop some guidelines or work flows, based on the NODC netCDF data template, for GHRC to handle future field campaign data.
• Improvements to Operations - Science Outreach (Ramachandran)
  • Recommendation 3: GHRC should hold AMS and AGU town halls, develop and distribute information brochures that describe their capabilities to potential data providers (e.g. field campaign PIs) and data users, utilize the NASA hyperwall, and pursue other opportunities (BAMS) to enhance GHRC visibility.
  • Recommendation 11: Determine LIS technical specifications for data products, latency, formats, etc. Publicize this future data source at appropriate venues.