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Appendix B
Workshop Agenda

University of Texas, Austin ACES Building, Room 6.304

April 29, 2002

Plenary Session

8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:30

Welcome and Introductions

Jeff Dozier, Committee Chair, University of California, Santa Barbara

Keri Moore, Study Director, National Research Council

8:45

Major Challenges to Environmental Data Management—One User’s Perspective, Eugene Clothiaux, Pennsylvania State University

9:15

Coping with Increasing Demands on Government Data Centers, John Bates, NOAA

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2003. Government Data Centers: Meeting Increasing Demands. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10664.
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9:45

Myth Connections, Richard McGinnis, NASA

10:15

Lessons Learned from EOSDIS, Bruce Barkstrom, NASA

10:45

Break

11:15

The Emerging Infrastructure for Environmental Information Management, Jim Frew, University of California, Santa Barbara

11:45

Data Ingest: A Case Study, Building a Global Environmental Database from Many Sources, Sydney Levitus, NOAA

12:15 p.m.

Data Distribution and Processing, Joel Saltz, Ohio State University

12:45

Lunch

2:00

Working Group Discussions

4:00

Break

5:00

Breakout Group Presentations

6:00

Recess

April 30, 2002

Plenary Session

8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:30

Recap and Reiterate Objectives, Jeff Dozier, Committee Chair

8:45

Reaction Panel

• What is your reaction to the first day’s deliberations?

• Are we on the right track?

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2003. Government Data Centers: Meeting Increasing Demands. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10664.
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• What technologies can be resource multipliers (near versus long term)?

• If there’s one you’d apply in the short term, which would it be?

• What have we missed?

• What’s the coolest thing you’ve heard so far?

Tom Barclay, Microsoft

Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center

Vanessa Griffin, NASA

Rob Mairs, NOAA

Basem Na:yfeh, digiMine, Inc.

9:45

Discussion

10:15

Break

10:45

Revisit and Develop Themes and Conclusions From Yesterday

1:00 p.m.

Lunch

2:00

Workshop Adjourns

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Environmental data centers have been successfully acquiring, disseminating, and archiving data for decades. However, the increasing volume and number of data sets, coupled with greater demands from more diverse users, are making it difficult for data centers to maintain the record of environmental change. This workshop report focuses on technological approaches that could enhance the ability of environmental data centers to deal with these challenges, and improve the ability of users to find and use information held in data centers. Among the major findings are that data centers should rely more on off-the-shelf technology -- including software and commonly available hardware -- and should shift from tape to disk as the primary storage medium. Such technological improvements will help solve many data management problems, although data centers and their host agencies will have to continue to invest in the scientific and human elements of data center operations.

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