Center-wide strategy and plans Clark Judy Julia Collins

Center-wide strategy and plans: Why a Center-wide approach? Provides a comprehensive view of all NSIDC data management activities, both DAAC and non-DAAC. This viewpoint allows us to identify and leverage existing data management infrastructure strengths across all Center activities. A Center-wide approach ensures that we consistently and efficiently support all NSIDC users in an evolving data management environment. PoDAG 25: Data Systems

Center-wide strategy and plans: Priorities Start from an understanding of the users' needs. Establish a basis in proven technologies, concepts, and standards. Ensure compliance with standards when making infrastructure changes. Apply incremental improvements through shorter- development cycle prototyping and deployment. Look beyond the horizon: keep in mind the need to adapt to as yet unknown technologies. PoDAG 25: Data Systems

Center-wide strategy and plans: Standards and scalability Drivers (interdisciplinary research, data synthesis, responsiveness to changing technology and user needs) require a solid foundation of metadata. Data interoperability relies on well-formed information about the data. Enforcing standards at data ingest allows seamless integration into standards-based tools. Increased efficiency, decreased maintenance and integration costs. Standards-based metadata vs. complete metadata: Identify the required parts, then make sure associated values exist. PoDAG 25: Data Systems

Center-wide strategy and plans: Current activities Internal review of existing capabilities metadata database transformation tools the existing user experience Ongoing review of external technologies and trends Use case development, based on: previous PoDAG feedback local users (research scientists, scientific programmers) external users, via USO feedback Intuitive search interfaces for geo-spatial data Search engines which more effectively present data search results according to relevance Search output that can be managed by the user, and incorporates clearly indicated scientific parameter(s), spatial and temporal characteristics Applications for viewing and importing data Interfaces for comparing data form different sources or programs PoDAG 25: Data Systems

Center-wide strategy and plans: Next steps Assess ability of current NSIDC web/data environment to support use case(s). Identify any infrastructure changes required to satisfy use case(s). Prototype changes incrementally; seek feedback throughout the process. PoDAG 25: Data Systems

Center-wide strategy and plans: Culture shift From “order data” to “discover and use data.” From manually or time-delayed staged processes to on-the-fly format conversions, re- projections, subsetting, etc. From “data repository” to a data exploration environment. PoDAG 25: Data Systems

Center-wide strategy and plans: How does it mesh with NASA DAAC plans? Complementary efforts Goal: interoperability of all NSIDC data, regardless of project/program association Evolution 2015 Tenets equally valid for non- DAAC data, including: Data interoperability Find data using common search engines Custom processing to provide only the needed data in the needed format PoDAG 25: Data Systems

Discussion PoDAG 25: Data Systems