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Environmental Data Management at NOAA Archiving, Stewardship, and Access (2007) / Chapter Skim
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... 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.
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... The environmental data collected by NOAA and its partners constitute an invaluable resource that should be securely archived and made broadly accessible so that a diverse group of users can conduct the analyses and generate the products necessary to describe, understand, and predict changes in the Earth's environment. Although it is impossible to save everything, the goal of NOAA's data management enterprise should be to ensure that the broadest possible collection of environmental data is archived and made discoverable and accessible to   Throughoutthis report, the term "environmental data" is used broadly to indicate all types of Earth System observations (including physical samples as well as in situ and r ­ emotely sensed data)
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... However, for environmental data, both user needs and the data themselves are constantly evolving. Thus, all environmental data management activities, including decisions regarding archiving and access of specific data sets as well as the development of the enterprise-wide data management plan, should incorporate substantial and ongoing user input.
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... [3, 5] Any environmental data management planning process or system needs to include substantial coordination and agreement among the relevant federal agencies and international partners in order to achieve maximum cost-effectiveness and to ensure proper data stewardship.
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... These activities include maintaining a scalable and reliable infrastructure to support long-term access and preservation, preserving data access and archive integrity during media migration and software evolution, providing effective data support services and tools for users, and enhancing data and metadata by adding information that is established throughout the data life cycle. By adding a data management framework that maintains and improves the archive and assures access and understanding for users, the stewardship function supplements and enhances data collection, spans data archiving and access to enable discovery and integration, and facilitates the realization of societal benefits.
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... [7] NOAA faces a formidable data management challenge due to rapidly growing data volumes and data access demands, a diverse spectrum of data types, a heterogeneous population of users and potential users asking increasingly inter- and multidisciplinary environmental questions, and an environment of rapidly evolving technologies and constant budgetary pressures.
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... The data management plan should also include a formal, ongoing planning process -- developed and integrated across NOAA with substantial user involvement and coordination with other agencies -- to prioritize data management activities and to make sure the system keeps pace with changes in observing systems, models, data storage and access technologies, scientific understanding, user demands, and available resources. Fortunately, NOAA has the opportunity to build on a number of successful data management activities that are already providing reliable data archiving, stewardship, and access capabilities for many user communities, as well as several prototype projects designed to improve data discovery, utilization, and integration.
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... Hence, it is critical to archive and provide access to the environmental data needed to describe, understand, and predict changes in the Earth System and the impacts of these changes on ecosystems, society, and other elements of the system. NOAA is clearly dedicated to providing excellent service for its many user communities, and the agency is to be commended for soliciting external advice to make sure it continues to provide effective stewardship of important national assets.
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