1. Presented to the CEOS WGISS October 10, 2019
ISO Status
Presented to the
CEOS WGISS October 10, 2019
Hampapuram (Rama) Ramapriyan
Science Systems and Applications, Inc. &
ESDIS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

2. Topics
What is ISO ?
Background
Status
Next Steps

3. ISO
Title - Geographic information -- Preservation of digital data and metadata -- Part 2: Content specifications for Earth observation data and derived digital products
Submitted New Work Item Proposal (NWIP) in 2016
NWIP approved – August 2017
Development has been in progress

4. Background (1 of 2)
Importance of preservation of data and metadata for reusability, understandability and ideally reproducibility has been recognized by a large number of organizations
ISO – Geographic information -- Preservation of digital data and metadata -- Part 1: Fundamentals – most recent standard for this
Ramapriyan participated in Project Team led by Wolfgang Kresse
“specific content items needed to preserve the full provenance and context of the data and associated metadata depend on the needs of the designated user community and types of datasets (e.g., maps, remotely sensed data from satellites and airborne instruments, physical samples). Follow-up parts to this standard may be developed detailing content items appropriate to individual disciplines” (section 7.3.1; ISO )

5. Background (2 of2) Basis for ISO 19165-2
US – NASA/NOAA/ESIP – Provenance and Context Contents – listing Europe (ESA) – Long-Term Data Preservation (LTDP) Program documents
US – NASA – Earth Science Data Preservation Content Specifications
CEOS/WGISS - Earth Observation Preserved Data Set Content (PDSC)

6. Steps in Arriving at ISO Standard
00 – Preliminary
10 – Proposal – Approval through international balloting; Project Team members (experts from participating member countries) named to form Project Team (PT) ( )
20 – Preparatory – New project is registered with Technical Committee (TC 211); ( )
30 – Committee - CD registered; ballot initiated and closed; comments handled; CD approved for registration as Draft International Standard (DIS) ( ; 23-Yes, 0-No, 14-Abstain; 47 comments from 5 members – 17 editorial comments)
40 – Enquiry - DIS registered; ballot initiated and closed; comments handled; DIS approved for registration as Final Draft International Standard (FDIS)
DIS registered ( )
DIS ballot initiated ( )
40.60 – Close of voting ( )
50 – Approval – FDIS registered for formal approval; ballot initiated and closed; FDIS approved for publication
60 – Publication – International standard published
Green = Done

7. Sample Comments
Primarily spaceborne even though scope claims to be more general – included some wording about airborne and in situ
Has this been adopted by missions/projects? Gave NASA and ESA examples
Raw data preservation should be mentioned – it is
Include commercial and public communities in addition to science communities – included wording to cover them
Clarify how this standard relates to ISO , , 19157, etc. – an annex to the standard does this
Introduction should clarify: target audience, mission sizes covered, handling proprietary data, time-span covered, etc. - Added words to do this
Clarify which items in content tables are mandatory – all items are recommended (none mandatory)
Specific comments to add words to tables to accommodate airborne and in situ observations – included
Note: Comments are summarized and paraphrased. Summarized responses are shown in green

8. DIS – Table of Contents Foreword Introduction 1 Scope 2
Foreword
Introduction 1
Scope 2
Normative references 3
Terms and definitions 4
Symbols and abbreviated terms 5
Conformance 6
Missions and Stages
6.1
Mission Concept Stage
6.2
Mission Definition Stage
6.3
Mission Implementation Stage
6.4
Mission Operations Stage
6.5
Post Mission Stage 7
Preservation Content
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
Annex A (Normative)
Abstract Test Suite
Annex B (Informative)
Stages and Phases
Annex C (Informative)
XML Representation for ISO
Bibliography