Ted Habermann, NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC
ISO Metadata Standards and Interoperable Understanding
Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 1:30 p.m. MDT
Bldg 2, Rm 1001- NCAR Foothills Laboratory
Join the *live* webcast: http://www.fin.ucar.edu/it/mms/live.htm
Abstract:
Documentation provides the context that adds understanding and
knowledge to data. The ISO Standards for documenting data
(19115,19115-2), and services (19119) extend the range of standard
documentation considerably beyond previously available approaches.
They include increased utilization of technologies like UML, XML and
linking and content areas like data quality and processing history.
These extensions can build an emerging foundation of data
interoperability into an infrastructure for interoperable
understanding. This process will involve active collaboration between
many environmental data providers and archives all over the world that
are currently in the process of adopting and understanding how to
effectively use the ISO Standards.
This seminar will describe ISO capabilities in the context of
parallels between metadata tools and data interoperability approaches
developed and used by UCAR and others. I will demonstrate how
directories shared over the web, transport standards, and community
conventions build the foundation for documentation access and data
understanding. I will also demonstrate crosswalks and connections
between ISO, THREDDS, and NetCDF documentation and some ideas and
approaches to improving documentation across the entire spectrum of
environmental data and products.
If you have a question that you would like Ted to answer during the Q&A
period, please forward the question
to jweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx who will pass the question to Ted for a reply.
If you are unable to join us for the live presentation, the webcast will
be recorded for later viewing. That URL is:
http://www.fin.ucar.edu/it/mms/webcasting.htm
Thanks for your interest!
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Linda Miller - lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Community Services, Unidata
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303-497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690
