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Information Quality Cluster
ON HIATUS
What we do: Providing authoritative information and guidance to data providers on how best to implement data quality standards
Why we do it: Information quality is vital to ensure trustworthy, reproducible, and fit-for-purpose data, validating standards for global use and critical decision-making
About the Cluster
Vision: Become internationally recognized as an authoritative and responsive resource of information and guidance to data providers on how best to implement data quality standards and best practices for their science data systems, datasets, and data/metadata dissemination services.
Goals:
- Bring together people from various disciplines to assess aspects of quality of Earth science data and information
- Establish and publish baseline of standards and best practices for dataset quality for adoption by inter-agency and international data providers
- Build framework for consistent capture, harmonization, and presentation of dataset quality for the purposes of climate change studies, Earth science and applications
Cluster Events and Activities
2024
- 2024-07-26: ESIP July Meeting session: “Evolving Information Quality For Earth Sciences: New Challenges and Opportunities“
- 2024-01-26: ESIP January Meeting session: “Embracing Data Quality for AI-ready Open Data“
2023
- 2023-07-18: ESIP July Meeting session: “Information Quality for Open Science across Disciplines“
- 2023-01-24: ESIP Winter Meeting session: “Open Science and Information Quality across ESIP“
2022
- 2022-07-19: ESIP Summer Meeting session: “Towards A Community Guide for FAIR Digital Earth Science Data and Quality Information – Approaches and Practices Promoting Trustworthy FAIR Data and Repositories“
- 2022-06-23: SciDataCon 2022 session: “Enhancing Research Transparency and Trustworthiness by Making Dataset Quality Information Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR)“
- 2022-06-22: RDA 19th Plenary session: “Defining, managing, and reporting dataset quality in a multidisciplinary Open Data space“
- 2022-03-31: Peer-review paper “Global Community Guidelines for Documenting, Sharing, and Reusing Quality Information of Individual Digital Datasets” published in the Data Science Journal, led by IQC co-chairs.
- 2022-01-20: ESIP Winter Meeting session: “Enhancing the Guidelines for Sharing and reusing dataset quality information“
2021
- 2021-11-03: RDA 18th Plenary session: “Representing and Communicating Data Quality Information“
- 2021-10-19: SciDataCon session: “The State of Documenting and Reporting Data and Information Quality for Supporting Open Science“
- 2021-10-01: White paper: “International Community Guidelines for Sharing and Reusing Quality Information of Individual Earth Science Datasets” – the outcome of the international effort led by IQC co-chairs.
- 2021-07-22: ESIP Summer Meeting session:”Toward Improving Representation of Data Quality Information“
- 2021-05-05: Peer-review paper “Call to Action for Global Access to and Harmonization of Quality Information of Individual Earth Science Datasets“, an international effort led by IQC co-chair Ge Peng, was published in the Data Science Journal.
- 2021-03-31: ESIP IQC had a joint meeting with the Australian/New Zealand Data Quality Interest Group (IG). Presentation recordings can be accessed on Youtube.
2020
- 2020-07-13: Virtual Pre-ESIP Workshop. The purpose of this workshop, in a nutshell, is to bring together national and international subject matter experts (SMEs) on dataset quality to kick off the development of community guidelines for consistently curating and representing dataset quality information. Pre-ESIP Workshop: About. IQC POC: Ge Peng.
- 2020-01-08: ESIP Winter Meeting session – Citizen Science Data and Information Quality
2019
- 2019-07-16: ESIP Summer Meeting 2019 – IQC Breakout Session – Presentations and notes
2018
- 2018-07-18&19: ESIP Summer Meeting 2018 – IQC Breakout Sessions – Presentations and notes
- 2018-01-09: ESIP Winter Meeting 2018 – IQC Breakout Sessions – Presentations and notes
Pre-2018
- ESIP Summer Meeting 2017: IQC Plenary and Breakout Session Presentations and notes
- ESIP Winter Meeting 2017: IQC Breakout Session Presentations
- AGU Fall Meeting 2016:
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- IN43D: Managing Earth Science Data Quality Information for the Benefit of Users II, Oral session, AGU Meeting [2016-12-15 1:40PM – 3:40PM]
- IN41C: Managing Earth Science Data Quality Information for the Benefit of Users I Posters, AGU Meeting [2016-12-15 8:00AM – 12:20PM]
- ESIP Summer Meeting 2016:
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- Summary of Use Case Evaluations from ESIP Summer Meeting File:Summary of Evaluations of Use Cases.pdf
- ESIP IQ Cluster Poster for ESIP Summer Meeting 2016 File:ESIP IQ Cluster Poster – 20160620.pdf
- 2016-05-16: Scientific Stewardship in the Open Data and Big Data Era — Roles and Responsibilities of Stewards and Other Major Product Stakeholders by Peng et al. (please see the “IQ Papers” section below).
- 2016-04-14: NASA Data Quality Working Group 2015-2016 Findings by David Moroni and H. K. “Rama” Ramapriyan (Media:NasaDataQuality_2015_16_Report_ESIP_IQC_04142016.pdf)
- 2016-02-26: 2016IQCPlan
- 2016-01-08: ESIP Winter Meeting 2016 – IQC Breakout Session Presentations
- 2015-12-15, 8:00 AM – 12:20 PM: IN21A: Approaches to Improved Collection and Dissemination of Earth Science Data Quality Information II Posters,AGU Meeting
- 2015-12-14, 4:00 – 6:00 PM: IN14A: Approaches to Improved Collection and Dissemination of Earth Science Data Quality Information I,Oral session, AGU Meeting
- 2015-07-17, 8:30 – 10:00 AM: Asilomar Summer 2015 Meeting – Agenda, Minutes and Presentations
- 2014-07-08, 11:00AM – 12:30PM: Frisco Summer 2014 Meeting – Agenda, Minutes and Presentations
- 2014-06-18: Telecon
- 2014-05-21: Telecon
- 2014-02-19: Telecon
- ESIP Jan 2014 DQ events
- 2012-11-05: November 2012 IQ Cluster Meeting
- 2012-01-04: ESIP 2012 Meeting in Washington DC
- 2011-12-20: Telecon
- AGU’11 happenings: Several quality/uncertainty sessions
- 2011 October: QA4EO’11
- 2011-09-20: Telecon
- 2011-09-14: MDSA interim review
- 2011-07-14: ESIP Federation Summer Meeting in Santa Fe
- 2011-06-28: The NEXT Next Telecon, discussing/finalizing Santa Fe Agenda
- 2011-03-25: IQ telecons established
- 2011-01-06: IQ cluster kick-off meeting
- 2010-12-22: QA&V White Paper Kick-off meeting
Upcoming events on the community calendar
7 events found.
Week of Events
October 27, 2025
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Canceled
Partnership Committee – CANCELED
Canceled Partnership Committee – CANCELED
Join via Zoom. All meetings are scheduled in U.S. Eastern Time Zone. Convert to your time zone. What we're working on ESIP Partners work together to meet environmental data challenges […]
October 28, 2025
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Open Science
Open Science
Monthly on the fourth Tuesday. Join via Zoom. All meetings are scheduled in U.S. Eastern Time Zone. Convert to your time zone. What we're working on: The cluster aims to […]
Free
October 28, 2025
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Physical Sample Curation
Physical Sample Curation
This Month: Joseph Lane from the University of Memphis will present: Progress Toward Establishing a Physical Sample Repository, or the Mississippi Embayment Research Center Monthly on the fourth Tuesday. Join […]
Free
October 30, 2025
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Agriculture and Climate Exploratory Meeting
Agriculture and Climate Exploratory Meeting
The ESIP community has some renewed interest in reactivating the Agriculture and Climate Cluster. This event will be an exploratory meeting to identify what types of activities the Cluster could […]
Featured
October 30, 2025
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Featured
Open Office Hour – JAN26 ESIP Meeting Sessions
Featured
Open Office Hour – JAN26 ESIP Meeting Sessions
Join ESIP staff to discuss your session ideas and get feedback. View the Call for Sessions Intended for ESIP JAN26 Meeting session organizers, this time is available to you for […]