Welcome to the Winter Meeting for the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)! The 2017 theme is Strengthening Ties Between Observations and User Communities. The theme is based on one of the goals in the 2015 - 2020 ESIP Strategic Plan, which provides a framework for ESIP’s activities over the next three years.
The discussions over lunch will discuss how we plan to leverage and expand the current state of our ToolMatch work to develop a system of services for discovering, downloading and transforming heterogeneous data products in an automated, cloud-based pipeline to get the data pre-analysis ready. Our approach relies on a variety of technologies to provide meaning to metadata describing the salient characteristics of data files; reasoning and querying engines to interrogate and evaluate metadata for compatibility with select data analytical services; automation of a prototype end-to-end system to facilitate data discovery, access and analysis. Besides the support given by ESIP’s Products & Services Testbed to ToolMatch, the project would leverage previous work done with ontologies and reasoning in the AIST-supported OLYMPUS project as well as work done with OPeNDAP and ArcGIS at NASA’s Atmospheric Science Data Center. We are planning to submit a proposal to that effect in the very near future, and are seeking ideas, partners, and collaborators.
