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1 Introduction
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... Consequently' William Townsend, then Acting Associate Administrator of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, requested that the NRC conduct a workshop to educate users and producers of ESE data about federations. In this report, the Steering Committee on a Workshop for an Earth Science Enterprise Federation examines the federation concept, compares different governance models, and offers some lessons for managing scientific data in an ESE federation.
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... . Demand for EOSDIS data products and information extended beyond the earth science community to embrace a broad range of users policy makers, educators, business people, and the general public.
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... Type 3 ESIPs. These ESIPs are responsible for providing innovative, practical applications of earth science data to a broad range of users beyond the global change research community.
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... · What are the criteria for judging the success of an ESE federation as a management model? Chapter 3, Models for an ESE Federation, compares six federation models and provides lessons for managing ESE data and inflation.


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