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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Statement of Task." National Research Council. 2006. Preliminary Principles and Guidelines for Archiving Environmental and Geospatial Data at NOAA: Interim Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11659.
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Appendix B:
Statement of Task

The ad hoc committee charged to conduct this study will assist NOAA as it develops plans to meet its data archiving and data access requirements. The committee will first produce a letter report that includes a preliminary list of principles and guidelines that NOAA can use to begin planning specific archiving strategies for the data streams it currently collects. This preliminary set of principles and guidelines for data archiving will be refined and expanded in a final report that also addresses the extent to which a wide variety of data sets should be made available. The final committee report will also include specific examples of how these principles and guidelines could be applied to existing and planned data streams across NOAA. In summary, the committee will:

  1. Consider the existing and planned observational and derived data streams collected by NOAA, along with current data management procedures, in the context of existing NOAA legal requirements.

  2. Consider the relative costs of preserving and providing access to certain types of derived data products versus regenerating these data from archived first-stream input.

  3. Develop a list of principles and guidelines regarding what types of data should be archived indefinitely (for at least 75 years), and what types of data could be stored for shorter durations under budgetary constraints.

  4. Develop a list of principles and guidelines on how best to provide access to different variables, data sets and derived products, illustrated with a limited set of examples and case studies.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Statement of Task." National Research Council. 2006. Preliminary Principles and Guidelines for Archiving Environmental and Geospatial Data at NOAA: Interim Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11659.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) collects and manages a wide range of environmental and geospatial data to fulfill its mission requirements--data that stretch from the surface of the sun to the core of the earth, and affect every aspect of society. With limited resources and enormous growth in data volumes, NOAA asked the National Academies for advice on how to archive and provide access to these data. This book offers preliminary principles and guidelines that NOAA and its partners can use to begin planning specific archiving strategies for the data streams they currently collect. For example, the book concludes that the decision to archive environmental or geospatial data should be driven by its current or future value to society, and that funding for environmental and geospatial measurements should include sufficient resources to archive and provide access to the data these efforts generate. The preliminary principles and guidelines proposed in this book will be refined and expanded to cover data access issues in a final book expected to be released in 2007.

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