ISWAT information architecture and data utilization overarching clusters, a natural follow up of IHDEA
Abstract
The International Heliophysics Data Environment Alliance (IHDEA) emerged as a result of the first International Heliophysics Data Environment (IHDE) meeting held at the European Space and Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Madrid, Spain, late 2018. Meeting attendees representing NASA, ESA, JAXA, and CNES have all agreed that increasing collaboration and coordination through the use of standard formats (for both data and metadata) and community-based data tools are critical for enabling interoperability of data systems and services while improving sharing of space-based, ground-based, and model-based heliophysics data sets. IHDEA was officially created late 2019 based on a charter and bylaws agreed by all agencies mentioned above and Nagoya university-ISEE (https://ihdea.net). It is a collaborative organization whose goal is to guide the development of a data environment in which the international heliophysics and space weather research community can seamlessly find, access, and use all electronically accessible, heliophysics relevant data sets. The specific mission of the IHDEA is to facilitate global access to, and exchange of, high quality scientific data products managed across international boundaries. This will be achieved by adhering to, and promote the use of, a set of governing metadata and data standards, data exchange protocols, visualization and data analysis tools. The role of the IHDEA is to serve as the focal point to engage the heliophysics data centres and the scientific community, foster communication, and identify and develop the standards and services that will best serve the heliophysics and space weather science needs. As a natural follow up, IHDEA representatives are actively participating to the information architecture and data analysis overarching groups/clusters of the International Space Weather Action Teams (ISWAT). Four action teams have emerged within these clusters including: use of metadata to facilitate data science, data preparation to advance machine Learning, on Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) to support space weather and develop the use of Kamodo to enhance the visualization in Python of the output of models. Thanks to the first ISWAT conference held in February, each of these teams has defined a list of actions. This presentation will be the opportunity to present IHDEA, review the list of actions from these teams and invite the heliophysics community at large to get involved in this endeavor.
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43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January - 4 February
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021cosp...43E2422M