1. LBA-DIS Working Group Report
Luiz M. Horta
LBA Science Steering Committee Meeting
Brasilia
May 16-18, 2001

2. Topics LBA-DIS System Updates Data Ingest Activities
Beija-flor Data Registration Status
LBA-DIS System Updates
Data Ingest Activities
LBA-DIS WorkGroup Concerns

3. Beija-flor Registration Status December 2000 => May 2001
LBA-CLAIRE (6 => 6)
LBA-EUSTACH (19 => 29)
LBA-Europe (15 => 15 )
LBA-Brazil (7 => 7)
LBA-Ecology (52 => 88)
AERONET (23 => 23)
Regional Data (19 => 19)
LBA-Hydromet (4 => 5)
LBA-TRMM (2 => 2)
Non-LBA Amazonia Data (31 => 31)
Total increased: 181 => 232 (+ 51)
Data sets increased: 106 => 152 (+ 46)
Posters increased: 75 => (+ 5)

4. Beija-flor Entries by Metadata Record Type

5. LBA Data Sets By Science Theme
Total=152

6. LBA Data Sets By Science Theme
Total=152
LBA Data Sets By Science Theme

7. Total Number of Entries by Science Module

8. Data Sets Only by Science Module

9. LBA-DIS System Updates
LBA home page web site
Redesigned pages are on production server
Web site maintenance an ongoing LBA DIS task
Science Team Information (STI )
“Cloned” STI now operational at CPTEC
Personnel searches, distribution lists, LBA Group Lists
Spatial searches improved in Beija-flor
Can now handle coordinates for individual sites within a data set, in addition to the “bounding box” for overall data set
Data & posters can now be differentiated in LME
Documentation tool
Ready for DIS WG review
Expect to be publicly available in a short time as part of LME

10. New LBA Home Page

11. STI Information

12. LME == Metadata Tool + Documentation Tool
Tool Integration
LME == Metadata Tool + Documentation Tool
Metadata
Documentation
Poster Link (+) (0/2 items completed)
Search Text Link (+) (0/2 items completed)
Other Link (+) (0/2 items completed)
Data Documentation (+) (45/88 items completed)
Document Editor fields are modeled after the 20-section DAAC Guide Document
Fields may be added, modified or deleted without changing underlying software
Documentation Tool

13. Transitioning between Metadata & Documentation
Using the LME
Transitioning between Metadata & Documentation
Both tools are fully integrated
Investigator can easily switch between metadata and documentation edits
Information is automatically exchanged between metadata and documentation
Metadata
Documentation
Documentation Tool

14. Data Ingest Activities
EOS Webster (UNH / LBA-Ecology / ESIP)
Working with Berrien Moore’s group to integrate “on the fly” data processing capabilities of Webster with search capabilities in Beija-flor
May be able to use technology learned in this activity to integrate with other LBA data centers that have similar interactive data processing capabilities
LBA-HydroNET (UNH / LBA-Hydromet)
Working with Charlie Vorosmarty’s group to make the hydrology/climatology data in the HydroNET archive available via Beija-flor
ESIP = Earth Science Information Partners (NASA)
UNH = University of New Hampshire

15. Data Ingest Activities (cont.) Non-LBA Amazonia Data
DIS WG requests authority to evaluate potential non-LBA funded data for registration into Beija-flor
Recommendations would be approved by SSC representatives in the DIS WG
IAI-DIS interactions
Can be achieved with minimal effort from LBA DIS
IAI-DIS working to resolve minor technical problems at their end
ANEEL Hydrology/Climatology Data
Seek input from interested SSC members re: prioritization
Mangrove Dynamics and Management (MADAM) Data
Will be made available to LBA community via Beija-flor at no resource costs to LBA

16. LBA DIS WG Concerns
We encourage registration of posters from all LBA science meetings
Due to recent security violations NASA/GSFC has blocked access to BRN. This may have some impact on LBA
LBA DIS ready to centrally archive data; investigators preferring to host data on their servers
Data Policy Working Group
DIS WG members Holger Hoff, Merilyn Gentry and Luiz Horta to serve on the data policy WG
Ready to help define data policy and investigate ways of improving compliance

17. Data Policy Working Group
Suggested Data Policy WG roles/responsibilities
Identify classes of data for determining reasonable data policy requirements pertinent to each class of data, e.g. physiology data, models, remote sensing, surveys, derived products
For each class of data define:
What constitutes a “data set”?
When does the one-year clock start ticking?
What data quality objectives should be met?
What level/extent of documentation is adequate?

18. Data Policy Working Group Suggested Roles (cont.)
Define compliance
Does registration in Beija-flor + public availability at the PI web site = compliance?
What is “data” and what is not?
Field log books, note books, unprocessed/raw data
Posters, journal reprints, etc.
Though a valuable information source, does data policy require that these be archived?
Analysis of the situation
The DIS WG encourages the LBA project to actively pursue an analysis to determine the obstacles to data registration and submission and is prepared to participate in this effort.

19. Optional Slides

20. Total Entries by Metadata Record Type