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Hi Chris,
<p>Thanks for spearheading this -- a much-needed, important (sometimes
thankless) effort. Below I have taken an editorial pass over the
introductory paragraphs of the GO-ESSP mission statement. I've attempted
to shorten and clarify it. Some further word-smithing is needed.
For your comments ...
<p>The only substantive change that I made is in the final sentence --
following the description of the member organizations -- I added (for your
comments):
<blockquote>"Membership in GO-ESSP is open to any institution or group
that is committed to providing improved access to climate and weather data
through an open process for the benefit of the community."</blockquote>
I raise as an issue that we call ourselves "Earth System Science" portal,
but the text restricts our domain to climate and weather data. This
seems more restrictive than we need to be (what about operational ocean
models, for example?)
<p> - steve
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<p>MISSION STATEMENT FOR THE THE GLOBAL ORGANIZATION FOR EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE
PORTALS
<p>The Global Organization for Earth System Science Portals (GO-ESSP) is
a collaboration designed to develop a new generation of software infrastructure
that will provide distributed access to observed and simulated data from
the climate and weather communities. GO-ESSP will achieve this goal by
developing individual software components and by building a federation
of frameworks that can work together using agreed-upon standards.
The GO-ESSP portal frameworks will provide efficient mechanisms for data
discovery, access, and analysis of the data.
<p>GO-ESSP collaborations are intended to increase the availability of
climate and weather data to a range of communities. The traditional consumers
of climate and weather data have been within the scientific community.
Increasingly climate information is desired by other communities, including
impacts researchers and policy and decision makers. Over the last
decade the tremendous growth in the volume of climate and weather data
has also contributed to an increase in demand
<p>The distributed nature of climate and weather data requires institutions
participating in GO-ESSP to work closely together -- crossing institutional,
agency and international boundaries. GO-ESSP has evolved into a collaboration
that involves software developers from both Europe and the United States.
The agencies and institutions supporting the GO-ESSP include NOAA, NASA,
DOE, NSF/UCAR, British Atmospheric Data Centre/NERC (UK), and the Central
Laboratory of the Research Councils (UK). <u>Membership in GO-ESSP is open
to any institution or group that is committed to providing improved access
to climate and weather data through an open process for the benefit of
the community.</u>
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<p>Chris Kerr wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Go-essp members:
<p>Changes to the proposed mission statement are posted to:
<p><a href="http://ndg.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/my-kwiki/index.cgi?DraftGoals">http://ndg.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/my-kwiki/index.cgi?DraftGoals</a>
<p>Please make your comment on this page or post them to the list.
<p>Thanks
<p>Chris
<p>--
<br>Dr. Christopher L. Kerr
<br>Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
<br>Forrestal Campus
<br>Princeton University
<br>Princeton, New Jersey 08542
<br>Telephone: (609) 452-6573
<br>Fax: (609) 987-5063
<br>Email: chris.kerr@noaa.gov
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