Ruth Duerr's presentation at RDAP11 Summit, Data Publication at NSIDC

2. Affiliations and sponsorship Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Main sponsors: World Data Center for Glaciology (since 1976) University of Colorado at Boulder Data Publication at NSIDC Presented at the RDAP Summit, Denver, CO 2011

3. 3 The National Snow and Ice Data Center… Creates tools for data access Manages and distributes scientific data Performs scientific research Educates the public about the cryosphere Supports data users

4. Data Publication at NSIDC Presented at the RDAP Summit, Denver, CO 2011 NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center Data from NASA's past and current Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites and other satellite and field measurement programs. AMSR-E (Aqua) AMSR (ADEOS II) SMMR (Nimbus 7) SSM/I, SSMIS (DMSP series) VIS/IR Moderate Resolution MODIS (Terra/Aqua) snow and ice products AVHRR polar data (NOAA series) Satellite & Airborne Altimetry IceSAT I/GLAS altimetry and atmospheric lidar data Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) Passive microwave * Metrics for 2010 calendar year Yearly Ingest Total Archive Yearly Distribution 25.7 TB 98.8 TB 150.0 TB 11.6 million files 27.2 million files 17.5 million files

6. Preparing Data for Ingest, presented 10/27/09 by R. Duerr LID590DCL Foundations of Data Curation Data Publication at NSIDC Presented at the RDAP Summit, Denver, CO 2011

7. arXiv & the Data Conservancy Link

8. What do we know how to preserve? The bits! 0100110001001110 001101 010 100001 00000 0 1 1 0 1 00010 000101 010 1000100 Data Publication at NSIDC Presented at the RDAP Summit, Denver, CO 2011

9. = Data Publication at NSIDC Presented at the RDAP Summit, Denver, CO 2011

12. Metadata - Quantity and Quality Preparing Data for Ingest, presented 10/27/09 by R. Duerr LID590DCL Foundations of Data Curation Reference Data Community Data Research Data Data Publication at NSIDC Presented at the RDAP Summit, Denver, CO 2011

13. Levels of Service as a Function of Metadata Preparing Data for Ingest, presented 10/27/09 by R. Duerr LID590DCL Foundations of Data Curation Quantity and Quality of Metadata Simple Data Set Metadata Simple Discovery & Access Complete Data Set & Item Metadata Advanced Discovery & Access Services ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02158/

16. Questions?