The Living with a Star Data Environment

Living with a Star (LWS) is a program of applied scientific research geared towards understanding and predicting the effects of the Sun on human society. The LWS data environment is key to the success of the program. We will have to combine diverse data sets from a wide array of sources, including ones beyond the formal LWS missions. Data must be integrated with models and across disciplines. The size of some of the data sets will be unprecedented in our field, requiring innovations in data searching and selection techniques. We will have to work together as a community to develop easy data access, metadata standards, community software trees, and other essentials to the free sharing of data needed to attain LWS goals.