DataONE Webinar: International Metadata Standards and Enterprise Data Quality Metadata Systems
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. This presentation will describe these and other capabilities of ISO 19157 with examples of how they can be used to describe data quality and also compare these approaches with other standards.
Dr Ted Habermann
Dr Ted Habermann worked for years leading a variety of data management and access projects at NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center. He is now the Director of Earth Science at The HDF Group. Ted is a well-known advocate for integrated data and metadata standards and leads several ISO development efforts. He works with NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information Systems Project and many others on technical and organizational adoption of data and metadata standards. Ted has been active in ESIP for many years and currently co-leads the Documentation Cluster.