Metadata: A Case Study from the Environmental Sciences.

Francis P. Bretherton, William L. Hibbard: Metadata: A Case Study from the Environmental Sciences. SSDBM 1997: 166-172

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ssdbm/BrethertonH97,
  author    = {Francis P. Bretherton and
               William L. Hibbard},
  editor    = {Yannis E. Ioannidis and
               David M. Hansen},
  title     = {Metadata: A Case Study from the Environmental Sciences},
  booktitle = {Ninth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical
               Database Management, Proceedings, August 11-13, 1997, Olympia,
               Washington, USA},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  year      = {1997},
  isbn      = {0-8186-7952-2},
  pages     = {166-172},
  ee        = {db/conf/ssdbm/BrethertonH97.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/ssdbm/97},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Environmental data are increasingly being processed automatically into derived products which are then used for a variety of scientific purposes. Lack of adequate documentation of the quality control and transformation algorithms can seriously diminish product credibility and utility, particularly for studies of global change which require consistent information over many decades. Formal modeling of the concepts, algorithms, and data structures provides an approach for increasing the quality and reducing the burden of structuring and providing appropriate metadata. Pilot studies of seemingly simple examples have revealed significant conceptual issues such as the need for a science-based theory of approximate equivalence among different finite representations of the same physical object, and for a careful division of roles between scientists and software designers when implementing support for physical units as metadata.

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