Abstract
Abstract. The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Data Management Principles (DMP) provide direction for managing geospatial data and related information products and services. Offering opportunities for enabling discovery, accessibility, usability, preservation, and curation, the GEO DMP challenge repositories, such as scientific archives and data centers, to improve practices that foster the use of Earth science data today and in the future. In addition, the Data Management Principles Implementation Guidelines (IG) offer many practical suggestions for implementing the DMP with examples that can inform the consideration of options for improving geospatial data management practices. Implementing such improvements offers value to the users of geospatial data by enabling data providers to support the use of the data products and services that they disseminate. Adopting these improvements also can assist repositories in their efforts to meet the requirements for attaining data repository certification, which offers value for repositories and their stakeholders. This article shows how repositories can improve data management practices for geospatial data by adopting the GEO DMP, with examples drawn from a scientific data center. Current and future opportunities for improving data management practices to attain data repository certification also are described along with practical approaches that repositories can adopt in the short term.
Highlights
1.1 Enabling Data Use by Managing Geospatial DataThe management of geospatial data is necessary to facilitate its use, today and in the future
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Data Management Principles (DMP) and the GEO DMP Implementation Guidelines (IG) are organized by topics and, within each topic, provide a descriptive title of the principle that is recommended
Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) review procedures are initiated from pre-acquisition to post-production and include inspections by data producers, tests conducted by project scientists, and previously described reviews conducted by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the SEDAC UWG, alpha and beta reviewers, the SEDAC Configuration Management Board (CMB), and users who voluntarily identify errors and offer suggestions for improving data products and services
Summary
The management of geospatial data is necessary to facilitate its use, today and in the future. Recognizing the challenges for these current and future scenarios for using geospatial data, as well as other kinds of scientific data, data creators, stewards, application developers, distributors, and other data stakeholders have a responsibility to ensure that the data are properly managed so that current and future users will be able to discover, explore, and use the data that are being created today. In light of this responsibility, stakeholders who have faced challenges with scientific data management and have attained experience in overcoming such challenges, should offer guidance for others to manage scientific data, including geospatial data, so that the data can be properly prepared for use by current and future users
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