IT&I – Information Technology & Interoperability

Monthly on the second Thursday. Zoom link below. All meetings are scheduled in U.S. Eastern Time Zone. Convert to your time zone.

What we're working on

The Information Technology and Interoperability (IT&I) webinar series is a monthly gathering dedicated to learning about new tools and techniques in Earth science data. The group is organized by the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) IT&I Committee alongside the USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI).

Upcoming

Check out www.esipfed.org/collaboration-areas/iti-committee for more info on upcoming IT&I events.

This Month

Vinny Inverso IT&I Webinar on September 12th at 3 pm ET: Harmony – NASA’s System for Managing DataTransformation Service Workflows at Scale

As the amount of available Earth science data has increased it has correspondingly become increasingly difficult for users to obtain and work with this volume of data. As data production has outpaced network bandwidth and local computational resources, it is not practical for users to download and work with more data than they need. Often users are only interested in a subset of available data and would prefer to download just that.To this end, data providers and others have introduced services to subset, reformat, aggregate, or otherwise transform this data to allow users to download just what they want in the way they want it. These services have been vetted to work with specific collections and produce science-ready data. The next challenge, and the subject of this talk, is to make it easier to access all these services and to apply them to the dataThis talk describes Harmony, a NASA system that manages service workflows that allow users to access and transform Earth science data using widely accepted geospatial standards. The presentation includes a brief introduction to the problem Harmony solves along with Harmony’s role within the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project, followed by a brief discussion of the Harmony architecture as it pertains to how services are run.

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