[Esip-preserve] Quality Assurance s another set of objects for Provenance information.

[Bruce Barkstrom]

Wow!  Imagine the work of a future scholar who had to work through the
Wiki and e-mail conversations that we've had.

Bruce B.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Al Fleig <al.fleig at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
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>>   1. An Ancient Archeological Find in my Basement (Bruce Barkstrom)
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>> In looking through some past  Esip-Preserve messages I found the below
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> comment from Bruce B. about including calibration and validation data.
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> There is an extensive actrivity in Europe on this subject as indicated by
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> the meeting announcement pasted below.  The provenance trail for QA
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> information could be extensive.
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> *REVISED “SAVE THE DATE”:* *October 18 – 20, 2011***
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> *QA4EO Workshop on Providing Harmonised Quality Information in Earth
> Observation Data by 2015***
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> The Quality Assurance for Earth Observation (QA4EO) Workshop on Providing
> Quality Information in Harmonised Earth Observation Data by 2015 will be
> held from 18 - 20 October 2011 at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) near
> Oxford, UK.   **
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> The workshop will present and discuss data quality assurance implementation
> examples across a wide variety of societal benefit areas.  In particular how
> quality information is derived, maintained and presented following the QA4EO
> principle that “all data and derived products must have associated with them
> a Quality Indicator (QI) based on documented quantitative assessment of its
> traceability to community agreed (ideally SI) absolute reference standards”.
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> Examples will be drawn from a broad cross-section of disciplines that span
> from global modeling and systems of distributed sensors to local
> environmental monitoring and small-scale field-based observations.  Best
> practices within each community will be discussed with the ultimate aim of
> addressing any existing gap(s) and necessary improvements to achieve the
> implementation of QA4EO.
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> This event will establish a roadmap of key objectives by 2015 that will
> cover technical, coordination and governance aspects of QA4EO.  Your active
> participation in this very important workshop is critical to moving forward
> with the Group on Earth Observation (GEO)’s vision for a Global Earth
> Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).
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> Additional logistical information about the workshop will follow shortly;
> *please reserve the workshop dates in your calendar.*  If you have a
> contribution to make to this event by way of a presentation or poster,
> please do not hesitate to contact the workshop local organiser Dave Smith (
> dave.smith at stfc.ac.uk) to register your interest.
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> Sincerely, *The GEO QA4EO Team*
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> *Marie-Claire Greening*
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:27:45 -0500
>> From: Bruce Barkstrom <brbarkstrom at gmail.com>
>> To: Ruth Duerr <rduerr at nsidc.org>, Curt Tilmes <Curt.Tilmes at nasa.gov>,
>>        ESIP Preservation cluster <esip-preserve at rtpnet.org>
>> Subject: [Esip-preserve] An Ancient Archeological Find in my Basement
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>> I was looking for some project documentation from projects I've worked on
>> and happened to find a typerwritten document that I wrote back at the
>> beginning of EOSDIS - say about 1990 or so.  I scanned in that document
>> and converted the formatting to LaTeX -- meaning that the PDF is a bit
>> better formatted than the original was.
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>> You might call what's in the document a "data management plan"
>> for EOS investigators.  In rereading it to get it into LaTeX, it's clear
>> to me that the document shows its age.  *On the other hand, I haven't
>> seen any of the data management plan samples on the Web that
>> mention calibration and validation, as well as some of the other kinds
>> of information we need to document to keep the data understandable
>> - at least for people who are trying to conduct Earth science research.*
>>
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