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Solving the Global Change Puzzle A U.S. Strategy for Managing Data and Information. (1991) / Chapter Skim
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... That strategy is to build on the successes of the current data centers' infrastructure to achieve a data and information system in support of the USGCRP. A global change data and information system should be based on simple principles that result from an analysis of existing data center activities.
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... • Create integrated product teams involving a partnership between active scientists and data centers, responsible for all aspects of relevant data collection, quality assurance, product generation, product accuracy assessment, and product distribution. • Provide for visiting scientists and postdoctoral positions at each of the major data centers on a continuing basis.
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... 4. The global change data and information system should provide for an evolving data management system and an expanding user base.
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... • Be driven by and accountable to scientists involved in global change research. • Support developmental experiments with prototypes that help define functionality, technical and organizational approaches, and resource requirements.
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... SUMMARY Prepare products and analyses both by the primary data gatherers and by scientists at data centers or at individual institutions. Ensure that validated products and their documentation go back into the data and information system.
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  • information management
  • change research
  • global program
  • national data
  • change datasets

  • primary data
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  • expanded user
  • existing components
  • user community

  • adequately supported
  • address global
  • locate global
  • relevant global
  • data units

  • change issues
  • effective data
  • evolving data
  • link data
  • relevant data

  • major data
  • describes data
  • distributed data
  • environmental data
  • data center

  • project data
  • information functions
  • existing national
  • product teams
  • product distribution


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