IN035
Making Data Uncertainty Information FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable

Session ID#: 82569

Session Description:
Data providers and repositories disseminate data leading to complex volumes of metadata and documentation accompanying their data. Users are increasingly becoming aware of uncertainty information, but not all users know where to find it, as it can be found in documentation, metadata, or only be available in a private repository. Without uncertainty information made publicly available for specific data, users are likely to be less informed about critical data in question, leading to reduced usability and capacity for decision making, as well as potential for inconsistencies regarding the perceived data validity. This session seeks to discover solutions (from conceptual prototype to operational) that intend to make uncertainty information for all varieties of Earth science data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable. Following these principles, we are targeting open-source solutions and of varying types, such as: web tools/services, documented practices/policies, metadata standards, data recipes, software packages, community repositories/hubs, cloud-based analytics, etc.
Index Terms:

1916 Data and information discovery [INFORMATICS]
1920 Emerging informatics technologies [INFORMATICS]
1950 Metadata: Quality [INFORMATICS]
1990 Uncertainty [INFORMATICS]


Primary Convener:  David F Moroni, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Hampapuram Ramapriyan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ge Peng, NC State University and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, North Carolina (CICS-NC), Asheville, NC, United States and Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  David F Moroni, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
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Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Data Programs, Washington, DC, United States and Robert R Downs, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Palisades, NY, United States
 
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