Kathy Fontaine

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Welcome and Logistics

• Kathy Fontaine
• Earth Science Data Systems Working Group 6th
  Joint Meeting
• Philadelphia, PA October 23 - 25, 2007

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Welcome to the 6th Joint ESDSWG Meeting

• First meeting was in January 2004
• Held semi-annually for a few years, then went
  annual
• The year in reviewcoming soon
• Part of this years activity is to review
  achievements for 2007 and plan for 2008
• These will be assembled in an annual report
• Annual reports for 2005 and 2006 are on our web
  site
• Miscellaneous items of note
• Cost Estimation Toolkit approved for open source
• NASA will do an internal review for next steps
• ACCESS pages loaded - please send your info to
  me!
• Single sign-on for metrics and eBooks in the
  works (hopefully by the end of the calendar
  year).

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ESDSWG Relationships with Other Organizations

• Tend to be fostered through individuals
  transferring the knowledge from the working group
  in question. For example -
• NOAA basing a standards process (with some
  modifications) after the Standards Processes
  Group
• USGEO interest in standards and information
  service security issues for the Service Oriented
  Architecture white paper being completed by the
  Architecture and Data Management Working Group
• CEOS and GEO interest from the information
  systems and services working group on CEOS
• Experience with sensor web technologies and
  services from the TIWG could be a key
  contribution
• Participation in the Standards and Interfaces
  Forum (part of the GEO Architecture and Data
  Committee)
• Preservation and Adding Value Conference
  (PV2007) presented status of the cost
  estimation toolkit

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Continued Progress, Increasing Awareness

• ESDSWG members have given talks, posters, and
  sessions at AGU, EGU, IGARSS, ESIP Federation,
  and other conferences
• HQ data system solicitations via ROSES now
  require membership in these working groups
• These groups are a KEY component of the NASA core
  and community data system approach
• Core all the hardware, software, physical
  infrastructure, and intellectual capital NASA
  recognizes as necessary for meeting its
  requirements for Earth science data system
  management. Core data system elements reflect
  NASAs responsibility for managing Earth science
  satellite mission data characterized by the
  continuity of research, ready access to and
  usability of data.
• Community those tools or capabilities developed
  and deployed largely outside NASAs core elements
  and are characterized by their evolvability and
  leading-edge innovation.

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Considerations for the Week

• The landscape is changing data systems are
  evolving at NASA
• EOSDIS evolution study underway
• Decadal Survey from NRC is providing further
  guidance
• New solicitations are on the horizon to highlight
  areas where the community can provide crucial
  components (watch ROSES)
• Partnerships are more critical to NASA than ever
  before (both national and international)
• Our working groups have a broad perspective, and
  are working with and within the latest
  technologies, services, and paradigms
• You will have the opportunity to see, discuss,
  and perhaps evaluate some of the key
  technologies, services, and practices that will
  enable success
• How can those technologies, services, practices,
  partnerships, help us evolve.

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