Volume I Earth Science Data: Production and Structure
Introduction, Earth science foundations, Time, Horizontal Space, Vertical Space, Composition, Fluid Flow, Energy Flow, Biological Activity, Earth science data collection, The Rise of Automated Data Collection, Instrument Sensitivities to Earth Fields, Data Sampling Patterns, Instrument Models and Basic Measurement Errors, Higher Level Data Production, Validation and Error Assessment, Earth science data production engineering and data management, Designing Earth Science Data Production Systems, Production Engineering: I. Stochastic Schedules, Production Engineering: II. Stochastic Resources, Production Engineering: III. Hierarchical Planning and Production Control, Designing Earth Science Data Production Systems, Production Engineering: I. Stochastic Schedules, Production Engineering: II. Stochastic Resources, Production Engineering: III. Hierarchical Planning and Production Control, Production Engineering: IV. Computational and Storage Resource Estimation, The Residue of Earth science data production, Collection Structure as a Result of Earth Science Data Production Paradigms, Error Budgets and Provenance as a Result of Earth Science Data Production Paradigms
Volume II Earth Science Data: Users and User Access
Introduction, Quantifying Data User Communities, The Broad Picture: Research, Education, Management, and Other User, Communities, On User Modeling: A Market-based Approach, Research Data Users, Students, Managers, Other Kinds of Data Users: For-Profit and Related Data Uses, A Look Ahead: Automated and Intelligent Data Collection, Data Collections Built by Autonomous Agents, and Federated Archival Networks, Metadata and User Access, A Brief History of the Metadata Wars, Metadata Standards, Key Metadata Data Structures - An Overview, Faceted Search Entry I. Ownership and Related Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Faceted Search Entry II. Bibliographic Information, Faceted Search Entry III. Parameters, Faceted Search Entry IV. Gross Spatial Coverage, Faceted Search Entry V. Time Intervals, Faceted Search Entry VI. Data Sources, Faceted Search Entry VII. Data Quality Assessments and Summaries, Faceted Search Entry VIII. Available Data Formats, Faceted Search Entry IX. Logical Name Spaces or File Naming Conventions, The Mechanics of Guided Navigation, The Potential Role of Semantic Technologies, Reconciliation of Queries and Guided Navigation, On Categorizing User Navigation Paths and User Data Orders
Volume III Earth Science Data: Preservation and Affordability
Introduction, Accounting and the Economics of Data, The Accountant's View of Earth Science Data Collections, On the Cost of Developing Software to Process Earth Science Data, On the Cost of Reducing the Uncertainty in Earth Science Data: Calibration and Validation, On the Cost of Earth Science Information Preservation, A Cautionary Summary of Information Generation and Preservation Costing, Threat Analysis and Preservation Strategies, An Overview of Threat Analysis, Threat Category 1. Media Failure, Threat Category 2. Hardware Failure, Threat Category 3. Software Failure, Threat Category 4. Communication Errors, Threat Category 5. Failure of Network Services, Threat Category 6. Media and Hardware Obsolescence, Threat Category 7. Software Obsolescence, Threat Category 8. Operator Error, Threat Category 9. Natural Disaster and Physical Threats From Terrorists, Threat Category 10. External Attach, Threat Category 11. Internal Attack, Threat Category 12. Economic Failure, Threat Category 13. Organizational Failure, Preservation Strategy 1. Replication, Preservation Strategy 2. Migration, Preservation Strategy 3. Transparency, Preservation Strategy 4. Diversity, Preservation Strategy 5. Audit, Preservation Strategy 6. Economy, Preservation Strategy 7. Sloth, Using Stochastic Reliability Network Approaches to Evaluating Risk of Information Loss, Summary and Conclusions, A Look Backward at This Work, Imagining the Future
