Protocols

• manual records
• sampling strategies

Physical formats

• digital vs. analog

Metadata capture

• "context and connections"

Examples

• field notebooks
• CA snow survey
• commercial satellite imagery

Archiving

• security / stability
• maintenance

Accessibility

• online vs. offline
• multiple formats

Metadata capture

• "context and connections"

Examples

• abandoned RBV data
• shuffled tape seals (anecdote)
• "How Much Information? 2003"

"Guide" issues

• existence
• characteristics

"Directory" issues

• scope & custody

Metadata

• intercomparability

Examples

• GCMD
• data product handbooks
  • USGS DEMs
  • Landsat 7
• Google Scholar
• MELVYL
  • at CDL
  • at Library of Congress
• THREDDS

Queries

• attributes
• conditions

Subsetting

• projection
• subsampling

Formatting

Examples

• SQL
• URLs
• phone / email
• "TeraScale SneakerNet" [PDF]

Types

• discrete vs continuous

Formats

• "wire filesystem" vs. "wire schema"

Auditing

• tracking process steps

Examples

• GIS
  • ESRI
• general-purpose
  • MATLAB
  • IDL
• models
• ad hoc programs ("hacks")

Visualization

• media
• metaphors

Formats

• "displayability"

Results vs intermediate steps

• data vs conclusions

Examples

• poster
• Web page
• article
• CD-ROM
• video
• web service
  • Santa Barbara 7m sea level rise (requires Google Earth)
• web site
  • lightblueline.org