Appendix C
Questionnaire to the Active Archives, Data Centers, and Data Services
Information Requested from the Space Science and Earth Science Facilities
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Number of unique users in FY95 and FY00.
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Actual FY00 budget and projections to FY05.
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Total number of staff (including active archive and Civil Servants) in FY00.
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Volume of holdings in FY00 and projected holdings to 2005.
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List of instruments providing data between now and FY05.
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List of data holdings as of January 2001.
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Current membership and the last 2 reports of your User Working Group.
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Metrics and/or statistics on users, holdings, publications that cite NASA data, etc.
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Results of user surveys (if any).
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Who is processing/will process the data from each instrument (active archive, science computing facilities, other)?
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Who are the current users and what user groups should be served in the future?
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How is the satisfaction of current users assessed?
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How are new user groups identified and entrained?
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What are you doing to make data: (1) accessible and (2) useable to nonscientists?
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How do you determine how useful your data has been to: (1) scientists, (2) private sector companies, (3) policy makers, (4) educators, and (5) the general public?
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How do you or will you decide how to retire any data sets?
Additional Information Requested of the Space Science Active Facilities
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Brief history of the center (e.g., 2–3 sentences on when it was formed, how it evolved)
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Host institution
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Disciplines served by the center
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Mission of the center
Additional Information Requested of the Distributed Active Archive Centers
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For what instruments are you using the ECS? Is the ECS working to specification?