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Valerie Dixon
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NASA’s Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keyword Viewer Beta
The Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keyword Viewer is a web-based client that allows metadata curators and ontologists to search for and navigate the GCMD keywords in a user-friendly and human-readable tree structure. The Keyword Viewer is built on top of the Keyword Management Systems (KMS) API, which provides machine-to-machine access to the keywords.
State of the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) Portal
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A Framework for Assessing Earth Observation Metadata Quality: Implications for Data Discovery and Open Science
The Common Metadata Repository (CMR) contains metadata records describing NASA’s collection of over 8,000 Earth observation data products. The Analysis and Review of CMR (ARC) Team at Marshall Space Flight Center assesses the quality of these metadata records. Metadata, rather than the data itself, is indexed for search in both discipline-specific datacenters and global or aggregated catalogs (such as Earth data Search), making it essential for determining whether a data product is appropriate for a given research question or application need. Since metadata connects users to data, it should be as accurate and complete as possible in addition to meeting minimum database requirements. The ARC team has developed a metadata quality framework by which to assess quality. The framework consists of a set of quality criteria that converge around the dimensions of correctness, completeness, and consistency, with the goal of improving the discoverability, accessibility, and usability of NASA’s Earth Observation data. The application of the framework has resulted in a measurable improvement in NASA’s metadata quality. Key aspects of the framework’s success are the ability to systematically evaluate metadata and provide actionable quality improvement recommendations. Lessons learned from the project will be shared along with implementation details which may be relevant to other science disciplines. By aiming to make data more discoverable and accessible to a broad user community, the ARC metadata quality framework helps contribute to NASA’s commitment to open science.
Keywords for All People: How Keyword Governance and Coordination with the NASA ESDIS Standards Coordination Office (ESCO) Improves GCMD Keywords for Discuvery and Use
The Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords, initiated over twenty years ago, are a hierarchical set of controlled Earth Science vocabularies that help ensure Earth science data, services, and variables are described in a consistent and comprehensive manner and allow for the precise searching of metadata and subsequent retrieval of data, services, and variables. GCMD keywords are periodically analyzed for relevancy and will continue to be refined and expanded in response to user needs. The periodic analysis is a result of successful coordination with the ESDIS Standards Coordination Office (ESCO), which is responsible for standards activities across ESDIS, and assists with providing valuable stakeholder and subject matter expert (SME) feedback on GCMD vocabularies. The ESCO is also turning to the GCMD to discuss how the keyword review process can be improved and more streamlined. In addition to the ESCO, keyword requests and feedback are also received through the GCMD Keyword Forum.
Introducing AI/ML GCMD Keywords
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Multi-Factor Authentication - Under Analysis
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords
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Advancing Suborbital Metadata in the NASA CMR to Facilitate Open and Versatile (re)Discovery and (re)Use of Airborne and Field Observations
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State of ESDIS Search and Discovery Tools
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