Long Term Preservation
Archival Policies and Implementation
Archival Standards and Technologies
User Needs
Provider Interactions


Poster Reviews
P2 LSST: Preparing for the Data Avalanche through Partitioning, 
   Parallelization, and Provenance (Kirk Borne).
   Theme: User Interactions? Standards and Technologies
   
   Kirk presents some of the challenges that face the Large
   Synoptic Survey Telescope (Chile).  This project will generate
   data on the order of 30 TB/day (65 PB/life).  The data will
   be processed and parameterized in real-time such that the meta-data
   associated with each 6 GB (3 gigapixel) is actually larger than the
   image itself.  All of this data must be moved from its acquisition
   site to the science center in San Diego.  In addition, since much
   of the analysis and parameterization occurs in real-time, the 
   provenance of the images (telescope configurations, software versions,
   policies, etc.) need to be tracked along with the data. Kirk discusses 
   how the LSST data management team has addressed these challenges and 
   the database principals that they have employed.
   
P3 Science Archives in the 21st Century: a NASA LAMBDA report 
   (Paul Butterworth)
   Theme: Archival Policies and implementation
   
   Paul runs a small data center (2 FTEs) the serves a small user community, 
   the cosmic microwave background (CMB) scientists.  The resources are 
   limited so the data center focuses on the specific needs of its user 
   community. If NASA mandates that his system must comply with various 
   information system methodologies, or that he provide complex metadata 
   for Virtual Observatory access, it may bankrupt or cripple his data 
   center.  He makes a strong case for developing the Virtual Observatories 
   and other inter-disciplinary data systems in such a way as to have 
   minimal impact on current data providers and small data centers. 
   
   
P8 AND Archives: Freeing ourselves from the "Tyranny of the OR" 
   (Ted Habermann)
   Theme: Archival Policies and Implementation
   
   Ted presents a case for including both GIS (geospatial) and 
   intrinsically scientific data representations.  In the NOAA system, 
   data are initially ingested into a GIS database, and then written 
   back out to the file system in more standard forms. This approach 
   allows users to search, retrieve, and analyze the data using 
   standard geospatial techniques AND to access the data
   files themselves through standard search and retrieve functions.
   
   
P9 An application of CCSDS archival standards to meet both submitter 
   and archive needs during data ingest (Kent Hills et al.)
   Theme: Archival Standards and Technologies
   
   Kent describes the past, present, and near future of the NSSDC data 
   ingestion process.  The process has transitioned from one that relied 
   on human interaction to one that is standards and tools based with 
   only a human review process. This transition will impact both the Center 
   and its users, however, the end result will be a more useable, more 
   reliable system.
   
P13 NASA Datasets Management Using Process Libraries and Electronic 
   Handbook [Where Shakespeare meets Frued] (Barry Jacobs)
   Theme: N/A
   
   Barry presented a real-time demonstration rather than a poster. The 
   demonstration showed a database of project proccess that he has assembled 
   in order to assists new projects with the development of their processes.
   In the past, this information was placed in project databases and not
   available to other projects.  As a result, each project invents new
   processes to solve problems that have been previously solved by others.
   By gathering the process information, and distributing making it available
   to new projects, the workload for new projects should be reduced and
   eventually many of the common processes may become standardized.
   
P20 Guidance for Science Data Centers through Understanding Metrics
   (John Mosses et al.)
   Theme: Archival Policies and Implementation???
   
   John presents a poster that describes the metrics that the EOSDIS 
   project has been been acquiring.  His presentation includes a 
   discussion of some of the pitfalls that arise in the presentsation
   of metrics.  In some cases the raw metrics can easily be misinterpretted.
   
P33 Tradeoffs in the Development in the SPASE Data Model (Jim Thieman et al.)
   Theme: Archival Standards and Technologies

   Jim presents a discussion of many of the tradeoffs that were discussed
   and implemented during the development of the SPASE data model. These
   include, but were not limited to:
       data accessiblity:     search/retrieve    vs   analyze/transform
       documentation level:   file collections   vs   files
       metadata level:        rich, manual       vs   minimal, automated
       metadata language:     cross-discipline   vs   intra-discipline
       metadata content:      conceptual         vs   structural
                              describes objects  vs   describes bytes