[ESP] Proposed GO-ESSP mission statement

[Steve Hankin]

Hi Chris,

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 ...

The only substantive change that I made is in the final sentence --
following the description of the member organizations -- I added
(for your comments):

     "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."

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?)

    - steve

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MISSION STATEMENT FOR THE THE GLOBAL ORGANIZATION FOR EARTH SYSTEM
SCIENCE PORTALS

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.

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

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). 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.

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Chris Kerr wrote:

> Go-essp members:
>
> Changes to the proposed mission statement are posted to:
>
> http://ndg.nerc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/my-kwiki/index.cgi?DraftGoals
>
> Please make your comment on this page or post them to the list.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>
> --
> Dr. Christopher L. Kerr
> Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
> Forrestal Campus
> Princeton University
> Princeton, New Jersey  08542
> Telephone: (609) 452-6573
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> Email:     chris.kerr at noaa.gov
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