Report from the PV 2007 Conference, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, October 9â€“11, 2007

Alexander Ball

doi:10.2218/ijdc.v2i2.29

Abstract

This is a report from the conference PV 2007, held at the German Remote Sensing Data Centre, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, on October 9â€“11, 2007. The PV conference is held every two years, and is concerned with the preservation of scientific and technical data, and the activity of adding value to the data to ensure it can be widely used and re-used. The theme for 2007 was â€˜the Challenge of Heterogeneityâ€™, not only in the data being supported but in the tools used to access and process the data, and in the uses to which the data may be put.

Highlights

The PV conference series — otherwise known as Perennisation et Valorisation or, in full and in English, Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation of and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data — began in 2002, with the aim of promoting good prac tice with respect to the preservation of scientific and technical data along with the means of understanding and interpreting it
Stein of Washington University talked about the processes used by the Geosciences Node of the Planetary Data Sys tem (PDS) at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), including co-operation with mission-specific data archiving working groups, setting stringent minimum standards for ingested data, and using pre-launch dry runs to ensure data is generated and channelled correctly
Sergio d’Elia talked about European Space Agency (ESA)’s Service Support Environment (SSE), which can coordinate the processing of a set of data by a chain of difference service providers, and its Knowledge-centred Earth Observation (KEO) distributed component-based processing environment, which supports the feature extraction algorithms and probab ilistic data mining needed for image information mining

Summary

Introduction

The PV conference series — otherwise known as Perennisation et Valorisation or, in full and in English, Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation of and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data — began in 2002, with the aim of promoting good prac tice with respect to the preservation of scientific and technical data along with the means of understanding and interpreting it. Over the course of the three days, thirty-eight papers and fourteen posters were presented on the topics of preservation, adding value to data, lessons learned from cur rent practice and prospects for future research.

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