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1 Introduction
Pages 9-11

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... However, the substantial resources typically required to collect or generate environmental data imply that they have significant social, economic, and/or scientific value. As described in Chapter 2, the volume and variety of data collected by NOAA and its partners have increased dramatically over the past decade, as has the demand for access to these data by an increasingly diverse range of users.
From page 10...
... These preliminary steps will need to be connected and extended by an effective, integrated, enterprise-wide data management plan, and accompanied by broad support and sustained funding, in order to meet the formidable challenge posed by anticipated increases in data archive volumes and data access demands and to ensure that NOAA's environmental data continue to be available to meet societal needs. This report provides the foundation for such a plan by describing the principles that underlie effective environmental data management and providing guidelines and examples that explain and illustrate how these principles could and should be implemented within an integrated data management framework.
From page 11...
... Each of these three chapters is organized around a single major principle, supplemented with more detailed guidelines and examples that describe and illustrate how these principles could be applied to current and future environmental data sets at NOAA. The final chapter provides one final principle and outlines how the nine principles and guidelines offered in this report, when considered in the context of NOAA's existing data management activities and accompanied by sufficient ongoing support, could yield a reliable and cost-effective "system-of-systems" for data management that meets or exceeds anticipated user requirements.


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