LBA-DIS Working Group Report

1. LBA-DIS Working Group Report Luiz M. Horta LBA Science Steering Committee Meeting Brasilia May 16-18, 2001

2. Topics • Beija-flor Data Registration Status • LBA-DIS System Updates • Data Ingest Activities • LBA-DIS WorkGroup Concerns

3. Beija-flor Registration StatusDecember 2000 => May 2001 • LBA-CLAIRE (6 => 6) • LBA-EUSTACH (19 => 29) • LBA-Europe (15 => 15 ) • LBA-Brazil (7 => 7) • LBA-Ecology (52 => 88) • AERONET (23 => 23) • Regional Data (19 => 19) • LBA-Hydromet (4 => 5) • LBA-TRMM (2 => 2) • Non-LBA Amazonia Data (31 => 31) • Total increased: 181 => 232 (+ 51) • Data sets increased: 106 => 152 (+ 46) • Posters increased: 75 => 80 (+ 5)

4. Beija-flor Entries by Metadata Record Type

5. LBA Data Sets By Science Theme Total=152

6. LBA Data Sets By Science Theme Total=152

7. Total Number of Entries by Science Module

8. Data Sets Only by Science Module

9. LBA-DIS System Updates • LBA home page web site • Redesigned pages are on production server • Web site maintenance an ongoing LBA DIS task • Science Team Information (STI ) • “Cloned” STI now operational at CPTEC • Personnel searches, email distribution lists, LBA Group Lists • Spatial searches improved in Beija-flor • Can now handle coordinates for individual sites within a data set, in addition to the “bounding box” for overall data set • Data & posters can now be differentiated in LME • Documentation tool • Ready for DIS WG review • Expect to be publicly available in a short time as part of LME

10. New LBA Home Page

11. STI Information

12. Document Editor fields are modeled after the 20-section DAAC Guide Document • Fields may be added, modified or deleted without changing underlying software Tool Integration LME == Metadata Tool + Documentation Tool Metadata Documentation • Poster Link(+) (0/2 items completed) • Search Text Link (+) (0/2 items completed) • Other Link (+) (0/2 items completed) • Data Documentation (+) (45/88 items completed) Documentation Tool

13. Using the LME Transitioning between Metadata & Documentation • Both tools are fully integrated • Investigator can easily switch between metadata and documentation edits • Information is automatically exchanged between metadata and documentation Metadata Documentation Documentation Tool

14. Data Ingest Activities • EOS Webster (UNH / LBA-Ecology / ESIP) • Working with Berrien Moore’s group to integrate “on the fly” data processing capabilities of Webster with search capabilities in Beija-flor • May be able to use technology learned in this activity to integrate with other LBA data centers that have similar interactive data processing capabilities • LBA-HydroNET (UNH / LBA-Hydromet) • Working with Charlie Vorosmarty’s group to make the hydrology/climatology data in the HydroNET archive available via Beija-flor

15. Data Ingest Activities (cont.)Non-LBA Amazonia Data • DIS WG requests authority to evaluate potential non-LBA funded data for registration into Beija-flor • Recommendations would be approved by SSC representatives in the DIS WG • IAI-DIS interactions • Can be achieved with minimal effort from LBA DIS • IAI-DIS working to resolve minor technical problems at their end • ANEEL Hydrology/Climatology Data • Seek input from interested SSC members re: prioritization • Mangrove Dynamics and Management (MADAM) Data • Will be made available to LBA community via Beija-flor at no resource costs to LBA

16. LBA DIS WG Concerns • We encourage registration of posters from all LBA science meetings • Due to recent security violations NASA/GSFC has blocked access to BRN. This may have some impact on LBA • LBA DIS ready to centrally archive data; investigators preferring to host data on their servers • Data Policy Working Group • DIS WG members Holger Hoff, Merilyn Gentry and Luiz Horta to serve on the data policy WG • Ready to help define data policy and investigate ways of improving compliance

17. Data Policy Working Group • Suggested Data Policy WG roles/responsibilities • Identify classes of data for determining reasonable data policy requirements pertinent to each class of data, e.g. physiology data, models, remote sensing, surveys, derived products • For each class of data define: • What constitutes a “data set”? • When does the one-year clock start ticking? • What data quality objectives should be met? • What level/extent of documentation is adequate?

18. Data Policy Working Group Suggested Roles (cont.) • Define compliance • Does registration in Beija-flor + public availability at the PI web site = compliance? • What is “data” and what is not? • Field log books, note books, unprocessed/raw data • Posters, journal reprints, etc. • Though a valuable information source, does data policy require that these be archived? • Analysis of the situation • The DIS WG encourages the LBA project to actively pursue an analysis to determine the obstacles to data registration and submission and is prepared to participate in this effort.

19. Optional Slides

20. Total Entries by Metadata Record Type