IOOS DMAC Standards Adoption Process

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IOOS DMAC Standards Adoption Process

• Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
• Data Management and Communications (DMAC)

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Presentation

• Overview of IOOS and DMAC
• DMAC organization
• DMAC standards adoption process
• Outcome and next steps
• Questions

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IOOS Overview
Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

• Multidisciplinary system of systems
• Quality controlled data and information
• Delivered in formats/rates required by decision
  makers
• Global to local scales (ocean basin to coastal
  ecosystems)

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I is for Integrated
OPeNDAP netCDF FGDC OBIS xml currents Nutrients

GEOSS IODE NOAA EPA NODC GOOS
Data collected Every second Every 20
minutes Every 90 minutes Twice a day
... Century Decade Year Season Month Day Hour
Minute Second
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DMAC One of three IOOS subsystems
Satellites
Safe Efficient Maritime Operations
Aircraft
Metadata standards Data discovery Data
transport Online browse Data archival
Homeland Security
Natural Hazards
Fixed Platforms
Climate Change
Societal Goals
Ships
Public Health
Drifters Floats
Ecosystem Health
AUVs
Living Marine Resources
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Presentation

• Overview of IOOS and DMAC
• DMAC organization
• DMAC standards adoption process
• Outcome and next steps
• Questions

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DMAC Participating Organizations

• Federal agencies
• National programs
• International programs (through national
  representatives)
• Regional associations

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DMAC Implementation

• Team approach
• Steering Team
• Expert Teams
• Caucuses
• Working groups
• Interagency Oversight Working Group

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DMAC Steering Team

• Representatives from government, industry,
  academia, public, and non-profits
• Role
• Coordinate and oversee DMAC standards evolution
• Identify and provide recommendations on gaps
• Conduct process in an open, objective, and
  balanced manner

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DMAC Supporting Teams

• Expert teams
• Archive
• Metadata and data discovery
• Transport and Access
• Role
• Address key issues as defined in DMAC plan
• Review and make recommendations on standards
• Working group
• Systems engineering

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DMAC Caucuses

• Outreach and community engagement
• International
• Private sector
• Education
• K-12
• Professional development
• Modeling
• Regional
• Role
• Respond to Steering Team needs for information

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Interagency Coordination

• Interagency Oversight Working Group (IOWG)
• Representatives of federal agencies
• Role
• Oversight of DMAC implementation within agencies

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Roles

• Teams
• Review standards
• Make recommendations
• Identify gaps
• Organizations
• Implement standards and recommendations
• Fill-in gaps

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Presentation

• Overview of IOOS and DMAC
• DMAC organization
• DMAC standards adoption process
• Outcome and next steps
• Questions

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Standards

• Standards are key to the success of DMAC
• Identify standards needed
• Coordinate with other standards processes
• DMAC standards mantra
• Adopt
• Adapt
• Develop only as a last resort

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DMAC Standards Adoption Process

• Process has been identified and agreed upon
• NOAA IOOS Program has developed the online system

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DMAC Standards Adoption Process

• Three status levels for standards
• Submitted
• Has no standing within IOOS.
• Proposed
• Has status within IOOS and can be used
  provisionally by IOOS information system managers
  for evaluation purposes.
• Recommended
• All IOOS data systems should consider supporting
  these guidelines wherever applicable

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DMAC Standards Adoption Process
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Brief Overview of Steps

• Originator inputs standard or best practice
• Gatekeeper reviews
• Steering team chair determines if entry is
  appropriate for IOOS
• Submitted
• Review period
• Expert team review
• Steering team review and on-line poll
• Steering team discussion and final poll
• Proposed
• Review period
• Federal register announcement
• Public comment
• Expert team review
• Steering team review
• Recommended

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Possible Recommendations

• Steering team may decide the following on the
  standards
• Move forward (submitted to proposed)
• Request additions or changes
• Table and revisit in next round
• Reject

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Presentation

• Overview of IOOS and DMAC
• DMAC organization
• DMAC standards adoption process
• Outcome and next steps
• Questions

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Next steps

• First cycle of standards adoption process is
  complete
• Lessons learned being reviewed
• Draft of recommendations for improvements in the
  works

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Outcome of 1st Cycle

• Eight standards were reviewed
• Four standards were moved to proposed stage
• IOOS Vocabulary Version 1
• Metadata Catalog Services
• Data Access Protocol DAP 2.0 (transport)
• Standards Package for the Representation and
  Transport of Gridded Data netCDFCFOPeNDAPaggre
  gation
• Four standards require more discussion
• Required and Recommended Vocabularies for IOOS
  Metadata
• Real Time Quality Control Tests for In Situ Ocean
  Surface Waves
• Quality Control Standards for Real-Time, In Situ
  Currents Measured by Teledyne RD Instruments
• High Frequency Radar Surface Currents

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Lessons learned

• Better alignment with IODE and GEOSS
• No major changes expected
• Improve submission process
• Better templates
• Better directions
• Standards vs best practices
• How-to guides for data providers

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Next cycle underway

• Federal register announcement on standards at
  proposed stage
• Public review and comment
• Expert team and steering team review starts
  mid-March
• New standards may be input at any time
• Cut-off for May meeting will be beginning of
  March for newly submitted standards
• Expert team review in March
• Steering team review in April
• Content standards are very important
• Need to vet content with community
• Need to show examples of content in different
  formats
• Next

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Benefits

• Vetting of standards with others
• Comments on how to improve standards
• Potential wider adoption of standard or best
  practice

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Presentation

• Overview of IOOS and DMAC
• DMAC organization
• DMAC standards adoption process
• Outcome and next steps
• Questions?