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
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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