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The Data Conservancy: Science-Driven Information Science, Christine L. Borgman, Carole L. Palmer Jun 2010

The Data Conservancy: Science-Driven Information Science, Christine L. Borgman, Carole L. Palmer

Christine L. Borgman

The Data Conservancy –which is a National Science Foundation funded Datanet project with a diverse array of partners – embraces a shared vision: data curation is not an end, but rather a means to collect, organize, validate, and preserve data to address grand research challenges that face society. Key to the data conservancy approach is information science research on the data practices of the science domains. Three teams are conducting social studies of individual science domains. Prof. Carole Palmer of the University of Illinois will report on their comparative studies of multiple biosciences domains. Prof. Christine Borgman of the University …


Calibration Of The Total Carbon Column Observing Network Using Aircraft Profile Data, Debra Wunch, G C Toon, Paul O. Wennberg, Steven C. Wofsy, Robert S. Stephens, M K.R. Fischer, O Uchino, J Abshire, P Bernath, S C Biraud, J-F Blavier, C Boone, K P. Bowman, E V. Browell, T Campos, B Connor, Bruce C. Daube, Nicholas M. Deutscher, M Diao, J W. Elkins, Christoph Gerbig, E Gottlieb, David W. Griffith, D F. Hurst, Rodrigo Jimenez, Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, E A. Kort, Ronald Macatangay, T Machidda, H Matsueda, F Moore, I Morino, S Park, J Robinson, C M. Roehl, Y Sawa, V Sherlock, C Sweeney, T Tanaka, M A. Zondlo Jan 2010

Calibration Of The Total Carbon Column Observing Network Using Aircraft Profile Data, Debra Wunch, G C Toon, Paul O. Wennberg, Steven C. Wofsy, Robert S. Stephens, M K.R. Fischer, O Uchino, J Abshire, P Bernath, S C Biraud, J-F Blavier, C Boone, K P. Bowman, E V. Browell, T Campos, B Connor, Bruce C. Daube, Nicholas M. Deutscher, M Diao, J W. Elkins, Christoph Gerbig, E Gottlieb, David W. Griffith, D F. Hurst, Rodrigo Jimenez, Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, E A. Kort, Ronald Macatangay, T Machidda, H Matsueda, F Moore, I Morino, S Park, J Robinson, C M. Roehl, Y Sawa, V Sherlock, C Sweeney, T Tanaka, M A. Zondlo

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The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) produces precise measurements of the column average dry-air mole fractions of CO2, CO, CH4, N2O and H2O at a variety of sites worldwide. These observations rely on spectroscopic parameters that are not known with sufficient accuracy to compute total columns that can be used in combination with in situ measurements. The TCCON must therefore be calibrated to World Meteorological Orga-nization (WMO) in situ trace gas measurement scales. We present a calibration of TCCON data using WMO-scale instrumentation aboard aircraft that measured profiles over four TCCON stations during 2008 and 2009. These calibrations are …


From Artifacts To Aggregations: Modeling Scientific Life Cycles On The Semantic Web, Alberto Pepe, Matthew Mayernik, Christine Borgman, Herbert Van De Sompel Jul 2009

From Artifacts To Aggregations: Modeling Scientific Life Cycles On The Semantic Web, Alberto Pepe, Matthew Mayernik, Christine Borgman, Herbert Van De Sompel

Alberto Pepe

In the process of scientific research, many information objects are generated, all of which may remain valuable indefinitely. However, artifacts such as instrument data and associated calibration information may have little value in isolation; their meaning is derived from their relationships to each other. Individual artifacts are best represented as components of a life cycle that is specific to a scientific research domain or project. Current cataloging practices do not describe objects at a sufficient level of granularity nor do they offer the globally persistent identifiers necessary to discover and manage scholarly products with World Wide Web standards. The Open …