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Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmsm34a..07d&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SM34A-07
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[1934] Informatics / International Collaboration, [1946] Informatics / Metadata, [1960] Informatics / Portals And User Interfaces, [1982] Informatics / Standards
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Researchers, the PIs of VOs, and funding agencies frequently refer to an overarching “the data problem”. The Heliophysical Data Environment and other programs in the US and around the world have been put in place to address this issue. The data environment in space physics has evolved significantly in the last decade, and as a result there has been a dramatic and definitely positive increase in the effectiveness of systems for delivery of data to the research community. This has manifested itself in the form of in general much shorter (frequently less than a day) times between observation and the availability of scientific data products, greater uniformity in and long-term stability of file types and structures, the implementation of metadata standards, the establishment of remarkably effective summary plots and web-based browsing tools, and the growing availability of software that makes working with the scientific data products much easier than it used to be. Still, there are issues related to data and data services that need to be revisited as the data environment continues to evolve. Foremost in my mind is a sense that from the perspectives of funding agencies, producers of different types of data, and data users there is certainly not one “data problem”. For example, as a general rule funding agencies want data widely used, while university researchers who are producing data want to lead discovery-type research that uses that data in some key way. The PI of a big project usually benefits optimally if the data is totally open and widely utilized, while the interests of a grad student carrying out a project that centers in some way on data are often best served by a possibly years-long period during which access to that specific data is not open to the broader community. Novice or one-time users of a type of data are often best served by a web-based tool that will make a straightforward plot for them, while expert users usually just want access to a directory tree populated with data files that they have their own tools to work with. I assert that the pressures on and motivations of the different stakeholders are in general quite different, and that as we move forward our community would be best served by a more nuanced approach to the “data problem”.
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