Skip to main content

Currently Skimming:

Annex 3 - Producing Trustworthy Scientific Information in the EOS Information Federation
Pages 544-550

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 544...
... Perhaps the most important step in producing trustworthy information is managing the transition from algorithm development to maintaining a production environment. One set of issues involves scientists who develop algorithms to create information from instrument data or from other data products.
From page 545...
... A verifiable sum check and institutional signature would be added to the wrapper to provide users with an assurance of authenticity, an important attribute of trustworthy information. The second new idea is science concept modeling, a process that aims to formally capture in an object-oriented metadatabase a logically complete description of the science concepts and the assumed relationships among them that were actually invoked while converting the input data into the final product, including a declarative representation of the algorithms and the decision criteria for control functions.
From page 546...
... Such a science concept model would extend the object-oriented modeling used in the ECS Data Model12 to the metadata and scientific theory surrounding operational processing. By isolating how and where qualitative judgments were inserted by the algorithm developer or production scientist, such a model would aid the design of effective oversight procedures, which in turn could be described and recorded similarly.
From page 547...
... National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. National Research Council.


This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More information on Chapter Skim is available.