ESIP UPDATE: Travel Well. Here's some Info.

• Winter Meeting Information!

Around the Federation

• Meeting breakouts this week.

See the full telecon calendar here. Select the meeting you'd like to attend, login instructions are included in description. 

We are looking forward to seeing you this week! This note has a few details to know before you go and some pre-ESIP Meeting highlights on Tuesday.
We are moving toward a paperless meeting:

• Sched: (Online schedule… you can make up your own personal schedule). https://2017esipwintermeeting.sched.com/
• The meeting guide is online: http://bit.ly/2iPux2B  NOTE: information on remote participation is included.
• We also have a real-time find-out-whose-in-your-session app called ImHere. Check it out (& check in): http://bit.ly/2i25h7c
• Pre-meeting list of registrants FYI: http://bit.ly/2i23Gye
• Wireless: Marriott_Conference | Password: earthscience

If you are new to ESIP. Take a few minutes and look at the ESIP 101 video: http://bit.ly/2j2qAYb

Pre-ESIP Tuesday Highlights :

• The NOAA Environmental Data Management Workshop will be Monday and Tuesday. On Tuesday afternoon, Dr. Bill Hooke, Associate Executive Director & Senior Policy Fellow at AMS will be the final keynote . Starting at 4, there will be an informal reception at the end of the afternoon. If you get in early drop in for this great talk or the reception.

https://nosc.noaa.gov/EDMW_2017/EDM_2017_Schedule_Close.html

• ALSO on Tuesday there is a GeoSemantics Symposium hosted by the ESIP Semantic Tech Committee:

https://esipfed.github.io/stc/symposium.html

• The ESIP Meeting registration desk will open from 3-5pm on Tuesday and badges will be available.

PARKING INFORMATION: IMPORTANT IF YOU DRIVE! There is some construction that will impact where you can park Wednesday – Friday.

http://deals.marriott.com/marriott-hotels-resorts/usa/md/north-bethesda/parking

DataONE Webinar on International Metadata Standards
Join DataONE on Tuesday 1/10 for a free Webinar on “International Metadata Standards and Enterprise Data Quality Metadata Systems” presented by Tedd Habermann (HDF Group).
Tuesday January 10th at 0900 am Pacific Time, 1200 noon Eastern Time

Register now via https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3238549206667117058

Abstract: 

Well-documented data quality is critical in situations where scientists and decision-makers need to combine multiple datasets from different disciplines and instrumentation to address scientific questions or difficult decisions. Standardized data quality metadata could be very helpful in these situations. Many efforts at developing data quality standards falter because of the diversity of approaches to measuring and reporting data quality. The “one size fits all” paradigm does not generally work well in this situation.

The ISO data quality standard (ISO 19157) was recently endorsed by the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee. Rather than seeking to align different quality measurement systems (a daunting task), the standard focuses on systematically describing how data quality is measured. ISO 19157 also introduces the idea of standard data quality measures that can be well documented in a shared repository and used for consistently describing how data quality is measured across an enterprise. The standard includes recommendations for properties of these measures that include unique identifiers, references, illustrations and examples. Metadata records can reference these measures using the unique identifier and reuse them along with details (and references) that describe how the measure was applied to a particular dataset.