IN047-10
Increasing visibility of historical datasets through modern repository practices

Thursday, 17 December 2020: 04:27
Virtual
Madison Burrus1, Fianna O'Brien1, Charuleka Varadharajan1, Valerie C Hendrix1, Shreyas Cholia1, Hesham Elbashandy1, Jannean Elliott2, Christopher S. Jones3, Matthew B. Jones3, Zarine Kakalia1, Emily Robles1, Crystal Sherline2, Peter Slaughter3, Cory Snavely4, Sara Studwell5, Karen Whitenack1 and Deb Agarwal1,6, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Department of Energy Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, United States, (3)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NERSC, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Department of Energy Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (6)LBNL, Berkeley, CA, United States
Abstract:
The Environmental Systems Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) repository preserves, expands access to, and improves usability of Earth and environmental science data. Amongst several efforts to improve the visibility of ESS-DIVE data, we’ve adapted the “Portals” feature from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) Metacat platform, providing our repository users a space to showcase their custom data collections.

Here, ESS-DIVE demonstrates the utility of Portals for data discovery using the legacy data collection of Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) datasets. CDAIC was a DOE climate-change data archive containing high-value fossil fuel emission and vegetation response data that ceased operations in 2017. Originally the CDIAC data was available through web pages with limited metadata, which limited their discoverability to web search engines. When ESS-DIVE took on the responsibility of maintaining these decades worth of vital climate change data, we had the opportunity to increase the discoverability of these datasets using a modern, manageable user interface.

In collaboration with the DOE’s Office of Science, Technology and Information (OSTI), we enhanced the CDIAC metadata previously obscured from users and coupled the datasets and metadata into packages on ESS-DIVE. Then, using the NCEAS feature, we created a portal to easily view all CDIAC datasets within the ESS-DIVE repository and transferred project information into portal landing pages, providing an archive-centric view of CDIAC data. Portals are a permanent feature in ESS-DIVE that any user can leverage to create custom, branded landing pages about their research topic with any related datasets published on ESS-DIVE.

As an interdisciplinary archive for earth science data, the preservation and modernization of data previously held by CDIAC was paramount for ESS-DIVE. Using “Portals”, we could increase the findability and accessibility of data as well as through metadata improvements and the CDIAC Portal on ESS-DIVE.

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