Earth System Curator: Metadata infrastructure for climate modeling
Dunlap, R., Mark, L., Rugaber, S., Balaji, V., Chastang, J., et al. (2008). Earth System Curator: Metadata infrastructure for climate modeling. Earth Science Informatics, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-008-0016-1
| Title | Earth System Curator: Metadata infrastructure for climate modeling |
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| Genre | Article |
| Author(s) | R. Dunlap, L. Mark, S. Rugaber, V. Balaji, Julien Chastang, Luca Cinquini, Cecelia Deluca, Donald E. Middleton, Sylvia Murphy |
| Abstract | The Earth System Curator is a National Science Foundation sponsored project developing a metadata formalism for describing the digital resources used in climate simulations. The primary motivating observation of the project is that a simulation/model's source code plus the configuration parameters required for a model run are a compact representation of the dataset generated when the model is executed. The end goal of the project is a convergence of models and data where both resources are accessed uniformly from a single registry. In this paper we review the current metadata landscape of the climate modeling community, present our work on developing a metadata formalism for describing climate models, and reflect on technical challenges we have faced that require new research in the area of Earth Science Informatics. |
| Publication Title | Earth Science Informatics |
| Publication Date | Nov 7, 2008 |
| Publisher's Version of Record | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-008-0016-1 |
| OpenSky Citable URL | https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7kd20c7 |
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| CISL Affiliations | TDD |