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ESDORA: A Digital Repository System Facilitating Data Preservation, Provenance, Discovery, and Access
Entry ID: ORNL_ESDORA

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Summary

Abstract: Delivering NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Data with Digital Content Repository Technology: A Software System to Promote Best Practice in Digital Provenance and Effective Access of Content and Associated Metadata

Digital content, including Earth Science observations and model output, is an essential part of contemporary scientific research activities. Not only is the rate of archiving for such ... content increasing rapidly, but there is also an increase in derived and on-demand data product creation and consumption. As a result of these trends, scientific digital content has become even more heterogeneous in format and more distributed across the Internet. In turn, this makes the content more difficult for providers to manage and preserve and for users to locate, understand, and consume. Specifically, it is increasingly harder to deliver relevant metadata and data processing lineage information along with the actual content, particularly when there are multiple ways of delivering the content, including the increasing use of web services. Readme files, data quality information, production provenance, and other descriptive metadata are often separated in the storage level as well in the data search and retrieval interfaces available to a user. Critical archival metadata, such as auditing trails and integrity checks, are often even more difficult for users to access, if they exist at all.

We propose to address these challenges by using and extending the capabilities of a contemporary digital object repository to work for science data and metadata delivery.

Digital repository technology has been used for digital libraries at great success, and we believe it can also be applied to the more complex needs of Earth Science data management. We will demonstrate this capability in the context of an existing modeling and synthesis data center project for the North American Carbon Program (NACP) as the primary science context and one of the more complex data projects for the ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics (ORNL DAAC) as a second context.

There are three high-level objectives in this project:

(1) Demonstrate the applicability of a digital object repository technology to science data. Based on our preliminary work, we expect to couple the Fedora Repository and a Drupal-based Graphic User Interface (GUI) as key elements of a next-generation NASA Earth system science data center infrastructure, using datasets collected as part of the NACP Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center (MAST-DC) as the primary science context.

(2) Use this implementation to enable better and more consistent access to critical metadata, including processing lineage information and administrative metadata, using the capabilities inherent in a digital repository (multiple streams for a given object and remote data streams). The enhanced metadata access ensures that science digital content becomes more transparent to the end user, with provenance and quality control information readily available.

(3) Demonstrate how data providers can more easily and effectively manage science data sets, associated metadata, processing lineage, and quality control/data provenance information. A consistent process, with associated user interfaces, application programming interfaces (APIs) can be used by the data provider to ingest, update, and modify a dataset for metadata changes or additional content dissemination revenues. Particularly in the context of the ORNL DAAC data, this work will demonstrate potential technology migration paths for existing data operations.

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Link: GET DATA

Description: ESDORA Data Collections.

Service Citation

Originators: Jerry Pan, Christopher Lenhardt, Biva Shrestha, Yaxing Wei, Robert Cook, Giri Palanisamy, Bruce Wilson
Title: ESDORA: A Digital Repository System Facilitating Data Preservation, Provenance, Discovery, and Access
Release_Date: 2010
Provider: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
URL: http://esdora2.ornl.gov/

Service Keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT/DATA HANDLING >ARCHIVING

DATA MANAGEMENT/DATA HANDLING >CATALOGING

METADATA HANDLING >DATA DISCOVERY

METADATA HANDLING >SERVICE DISCOVERY

Science Keywords

AGRICULTURE >AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES

AGRICULTURE >AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS

ISO Topic Category

FARMING
BIOTA

Project

NASA ACCESS >NASA's Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science

Access Constraints None

Ancillary Keywords

Data Discovery
Data Management
Provenance
Data Preservation

Service Provider

DOE/ORNL/ESD > Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy

Service Organization URL: http://www.esd.ornl.gov/

Service Provider Personnel
Name: JERRY YUN PAN Phone: 678-770-3721 Fax: 865-241-3685 Email: pany at ornl.gov Contact Address: Environmental Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory City: Oak Ridge Province or State: TN Postal Code: 37831-6407 Country: USA

Distribution Media

Distribution_Media: Online
Fees: No fees

Personnel

JERRY YUN PAN
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 678-770-3721
Fax: 865-241-3685
Email: pany at ornl.gov
Contact Address:
Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
City: Oak Ridge
Province or State: TN
Postal Code: 37831-6407
Country: USA

TYLER B. STEVENS
Role: SERF AUTHOR
Phone: (301) 614-6898
Fax: 301-614-5268
Email: Tyler.B.Stevens at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Change Master Directory
City: Greenbelt
Province or State: MD
Postal Code: 20771
Country: USA

Publications/References

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (FSLD)/Tufts University, British Columbia Ministry of Environment/Lands/Parks (BCMELP), Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre (ACRC), and American Society of International Law (ASIL) (2002), Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Collection of Treaty Texts, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), Palisades, NY, http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/entri-treaty-texts-collec...

Creation and Review Dates

SERF Creation Date: 2011-11-14
SERF Last Revision Date: 2011-11-15

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