[Sdi-northamerica] Environmental Data Management at NOAA: Archiving, Stewardship, and Access

[Kate Lance]

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12017
Environmental Data Management at NOAA: Archiving, Stewardship, and Access
This report offers nine general principles for effective environmental data management, listed below, along with a number of guidelines and examples that describe and illustrate how these principles could and should be applied at NOAA. This guidance is based on the following categories of information reviewed: NOAA’s legal and administrative mandates; the data archiving requirements and access capabilities required by NOAA’s mission objectives; the findings and recommendations from many previous reports; the documents and feedback received from NOAA, its agency partners, and its data users regarding current and planned data management activities; and the knowledge and experience of the members of this committee.
 
1. Environmental data should be archived and made accessible.
2. Data-generating activities should include adequate resources to support end-to-end data management.
3. Environmental data management activities should recognize user needs.
4. Effective interagency and international partnerships are essential.
5. Metadata are essential for data management.
6. Data and metadata require expert stewardship.
7. A formal, ongoing process, with broad community input, is needed to decide what data to archive and what data not to archive.
8. An effective data archive should provide for discovery, access, and integration.
9. Effective data management requires a formal, ongoing planning process.
 
See also: http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11659
Preliminary Principles and Guidelines for Archiving Environmental and Geospatial Data at NOAA: Interim Report


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