[ESP] ESP page

[Cathy Smith]

> Hi Chris,
> The page looks great.  Several things:  I did not see much traffic re: Earth
> Science Portal name problem.  My take is that the team should consider
> alternatives since, as you state, the NASA site already exists and we are not
> associated with that project- and its hard sometimes to compete, or confusing
> to users, with engines such as Google.   But....
>
> Here's a thought- are not the goals of the ESP similar to NCAR's Climate Data
> Portal (CDP).  Do you need another name-/ group?  Why not just merge this
> effort with CDP (-gee DonM heads that up).  Call it an advisory or technical
> devlp group/Provider Web template group for CDP- whatever.  I don't mean to be
> uncooperative here but it's safe to say that the end goals are key.  Not
> another group.  Most of the goals there also parallel the NOMADS goals.   It
> just seems most of the folks on the ESP are part of NOMADS, and/or CDP (ESMF,
> ESG, etc.).  No doubt the NOMADS focus is on data access.  ESP is back end
> devlp no?  Why not just pull folks into CDP who work on the back end
> stuff...and into NOMADS who'll focus on the data access part?   When it comes
> down to it- distributed access provided by the Lab's and Center's is the
> goal.  I off base here?  Maybe so, but I thought I'd throw this out there.
>
> If not, for the new name consider the efforts goals, and the major benefits to
> the community- to name the page.  I liked the earlier suggestion by Cathy
> Smith but not sure one would necessarily omit the data part, solely based on
> the inclusion of model code.  Thinking out loud: Climate (should) include
> ocean,  weather is (mean) climate.  What else?  That's about it- no?  Websters
> says Earth Science fits the bill (better than GeoScience anyway).  GESP.
> Change the G to Global?   I don't know it needs some more thought tho'.
>
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Hi, I think merging with NCAR's climate data portal is a great idea!! How
much of a possibility is that? The term "climate data portal" is basically
what we are trying to be so ideally it's the name we want.  Earth Science
is close but I think climate data (atmosphere/ocean/land surfaces) is
really a subset of that. I think we are providing data and data products
only (data, metadata, references, sources, models, plotting tools) and not
really links to science processes and the like so (IMHO) data should be in
whatever title we use. For me "data" does imply these other things. But,
if we wanted a more descriptive title we could be something like "climate
data and data services" (cdds) which seems rather long and loses the
trendy "portal" name.

If not that, then I would vote for "Global Earth Sceince Data Portal".

Cathy

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