EOL-Wide Data Management Plan Outline

Draft: 21 May 2007

Additions? Deletions? Assign sections to be written for Draft deadline 1 August 2007? Final Deadline early-September 2007
Each section should include general description and address priority, level of effort, and collaboration.

1. Introduction
2. EOL Data Management System (EMDAC)
   1. Data Access
      1. EOL User Interface (EOL, Project, Dataset, etc.)
         1. ZINC (New CODIAC style User Interface)
         2. Master Lists - One stop shopping.
         3. Mass Store (MSS) Archive
         4. Community Data Portal
         5. Other EOL data access pages (NCAR/EOL Data Archive - "Research Data and Deployment Archive",
            ISFF Surface Data Archive, EOL/RAF Project Data Catalog, others?)
      2. Data Policy - EOL vs Project
   2. Browsing and Visualization
      1. GIS/MapserverField Catalog
      2. VOC
      3. S-PolKa Radar Image Archive
      4. Externally Developed Tools (IDV, ncplot, other?)
      5. Other EOL Tools (Suds, Solo, ISS Interactive Data Plot Browser, other?)
   3. Metadata Catalog Export
      1. THREDDS
      2. ISO 19115/TC 211 Geographic Information/Geomatics metadata Standard
      3. NASA GCMD
      4. RSS Feeds
      5. XML
      6. Other
   4. Internal Tools
      1. Data Tracking System
      2. Database Maintenance (GUImaint)
      3. Metrics (QCODIAC, other?)
3. Other EOL Data Services
   1. Web Services
      1. Content Management System
      2. Wikis
   2. Satellite Data Services
      1. Satellite Data Archive
      2. Visualization (Terascan, McIDAS)
      3. Satellite MSS Query Tool
   3. "Personalized" Data Services - Scientific DM
      1. Data collection, customized processing, QA/QC, Project Web Pages for National/Int'l projects and maintanence, Questionnaires, mailing lists, DM Project Plan development, Data source investigations, special media creation/distribution and publication management.
      2. Platform support vs overall project support
   4. Data Stewardship
      1. Long-term data archival and stewardship (with and without EOL platforms) including access and retrieval of data from various media types and formats.
4. Schedule and Manpower