HDF Conventions and Communities [1]
HDF is used to support communities throughout the ESIP community and across many scientific disciplines. In many cases, these communities develop a set of conventions for describing their data and tools that support data access using those conventions. In Earth science the most well known community APIs are HDF-EOS and netCDF, but there are many others (BAG [5], KEA [6], ...).
The HDF Group has recently initiated several projects aimed at increasing interactions with these groups in Earth Science and beyond. The first is a technical one that involves developing machine-actionable descriptions of conventions using well known expert system [7] tools. The second is a community engagement effort aimed at developing an active and interactive HDF community initially starting (hopefully) as an NSF Research Coordination Network. These two efforts will be described during this session.
- Introduction - Ted Habermann
- His Expert's Voice: Community Conventions and Expert Systems - Gerd Heber
- HDF Communities and Outreach - Lindsay Powers