1. The NOAA National Geophysical Data Center And Collocated World Data Service for Geophysics Dan Kowal Data Administrator, Information Services Division NOAA / NESDIS / NGDC dan.kowal@noaa.gov GeoData Workshop 2014 Failure to Connect? 1

2. Technical issues of connecting geodata in and between governmental agencies.

3. Challenges and Accomplishments Metadata Publication Software Development Data Citation

4. Metadata Tools http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/docucomp/

5. Measurement of Completeness RecordsRubric Scores ValidInvalidCount ≥ 20Count ≥ 25MeanMinMax 33142183157251222.9641

6. Count of Broken URLS ComponentsOther XlinksBroken URLsBroken Xlinks CountReuseCountReuseCountReuseCountReuse 2777057031333420222226

7. Metadata Publication - Local NGDC Metadata Homepage NGDC Metadata Homepage – Immediately available NGDC Geoportal – synchronized weekly or upon request

9. Software Challenges ● Wide variety of data types ● Diversity of data providers ● Decreasing staff and funds ● Increasing number of data sets ~ 600 to date ● Legacy code bases ● Lack of communication

10. Engineering Objectives ● Common framework o standardize on common technologies, shared knowledge, centralization supporting tracking / reporting ● Isolate dataset specific components o share things like file handling, messaging across disparate datasets ● Modular and extensible o ease maintenance and facilitate testing, phasing in new capabilities (incremental improvements), reduce likelihood of system-wide impacts to errors or malfunctions

11. Engineering Objectives - cont’d ● Industry-standard and best practices and patterns o develop in teams, automated builds, test coverage, leverage industry tools ● Resilient o eliminate single points of failure, be able to restart processes following errors without data loss, secure ● Minimize custom code o reduce software maintenance

12. New Access Interfaces at NGDC 12

13. DOI Landing Page 13

14. DOI Landing Page 14

15. DOI Readiness Assessment

16. Data Citation Summary Data Linkage to Publications: – Data Citation Index in Thomson-Reuters’ Web of Knowledge Data Citation Index – Elsevier ScienceDirect – Ongoing discussions. Elsevier ScienceDirect Procedural Directive for Data Citation in the works. – Leverage ESIP Guidance – NCAR’s Data Citation White Paper DataCite – ~ 50 Datasets minted through EZID.

17. In Summary… Need to fix the catalog publishing disconnect. Enterprise approach to development paying dividends. – Creating opportunities for reuse. – Generic functionality shared across data sets. – Going to take more resources to transition legacy data sets. Collaboration in Data Citation practices across Data Centers bodes well for future consolidation. Begin “Interoperability” discussion early when initiating a new Archive Project.