ESS DIVE_News_Updates
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Title: ESS-DIVE News Updates on Data Integration, Infrastructure Enhancements, and Community Initiatives (2025/02/28)
Summary: This collection of news articles from the ESS-DIVE (Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem) website highlights key updates, events, and initiatives related to Earth science data management, integration, and infrastructure advancements.
Key Updates:
Webinar on BER Bio-Eco Data Integration (March 18, 2025):
Focuses on integrating data across DOE Biological and Environmental Research (BER) systems (e.g., JGI, EMSL, NMDC, KBase).
Topics include global search capabilities, linking ESS-DIVE datasets to related resources (papers, workflows), and improving FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles.
Encourages participation from projects and mentions an NMDC Ambassador program deadline (February 28, 2025).
Winter 2025 Infrastructure and Service Updates:
Community Data Curator Support: Kim Ely (LBNL) offers curation assistance for high-quality dataset preparation until September 2025.
File Level Metadata (FLMD) v1.1.0: Backward-compatible update addressing community feedback.
API Enhancements:
Dataset API improvements for dataset search, submission, and sharing.
Deep Dive API for advanced file-level data discovery (requires ESS-DIVE reporting formats).
Publication Service Interruption (Spring 2025): Due to OSTI service unavailability, DOI reservations and dataset publishing will be paused.
Recognition of Deb Agarwal:
Former ESS-DIVE Lead PI (2017–2023) named 2024 AGU Fellow for pioneering data infrastructure contributions.
AGU 2024 Participation:
ESS-DIVE team presented on scalable infrastructure, FAIR data workflows, and participated in town halls on complex citations and unified Earth science data infrastructure.
2024 Community Fund Projects:
ESS Community Data Curator: Supports dataset curation.
Sensor Data Workflow: Standardizing sensor data processing (Stephanie Pennington, PNNL).
Hydrologic and Chemistry Reporting Formats: Improving machine readability (Amy Goldman, PNNL).
ATS Model Data Archiving: Prototyping standardized procedures (Ethan Coon, ORNL).
Technical and Collaborative Focus:
Emphasis on FAIR principles, automated validation tools (e.g., CSV guidelines), and interoperability across BER repositories.
Development of a tiered storage model (primary for metadata, Tier 2 for large datasets) and resilient infrastructure (DataONE federation integration).
Relevant Links: - ESS-DIVE Status Page - AGU 2024 Presentation Abstracts
Key Personnel: - Joan Damerow: Community Engagement Lead, overseeing webinars and sample data integration. - Dylan O’Ryan: Manages dataset publication review and reporting format adoption.
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