A Unified Framework for Measuring Stewardship Practices Applied to Digital Environmental Datasets

Data Science Journal

Jeffrey L Privette²  Edward J Kearns²  Nancy A Ritchey²  Steve Ansari²  Ge Peng¹ 

[1] NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, North Carolina State University (CICS-NC) and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC);NOAA's NCDC

关键词: Stewardship maturity;    Data quality;    Data interoperability;    Digital Earth data;    Environmental data;    Preservability;    Accessibility;    Usability;    Data integrity;    Transparency;   

DOI  :  10.2481/dsj.14-049

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: Ubiquity Press Ltd.

【 摘 要 】

References(55)This paper presents a stewardship maturity assessment model in the form of a matrix for digital environmental datasets. Nine key components are identified based on requirements imposed on digital environmental data and information that are cared for and disseminated by U.S. Federal agencies by U.S. law, i.e., Information Quality Act of 2001, agencies�? guidance, expert bodies�? recommendations, and users. These components include: preservability, accessibility, usability, production sustainability, data quality assurance, data quality control/monitoring, data quality assessment, transparency/traceability, and data integrity. A five-level progressive maturity scale is then defined for each component associated with measurable practices applied to individual datasets, representing Ad Hoc, Minimal, Intermediate, Advanced, and Optimal stages. The rationale for each key component and its maturity levels is described. This maturity model, leveraging community best practices and standards, provides a unified framework for assessing scientific data stewardship. It can be used to create a stewardship maturity scoreboard of dataset(s) and a roadmap for scientific data stewardship improvement or to provide data quality and usability information to users, stakeholders, and decision makers.

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