Domain Content Mapping in the USGCRP Global Change Information System
Abstract
The U.S. Global Change Research Program's (USGCRP's) developed the Global Change Information System (GCIS) to better coordinate and integrate the use of Federal information products on changes in the global environment and the implications of those changes for society. GCIS provides specialists and the general public with links to the data and other material that transparently underpins the scientific findings presented by the USGCRP. GCIS's focus is on the cross-cutting theme of Global Change Information that is spread across federal government repositories and the broader research community. An open source web-based resource, the GCIS provides human and programmable interfaces, relational and semantic representations of information, and discrete identifiers for various resources. GCIS's capabilities originally developed to support the 2014 National Climate Assessment have been extended to support the 2016 Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health: A Scientific Assessment. GCIS provides named sources and contacts for figures, images and data sources, with the provenance continuing to the platforms and instruments or other observations on which the these documents are based. The USGCRP GCIS team has been working with NASA's Climate Data Initiative (CDI) team to demonstrate that by extending the GCIS ontology, links can be provided between assessments and data, as well as, help curate climate sub-themes such as those focused on a specific societal benefit area (e.g. health). To support this capability, a support for domain specific content maps has been added to GCIS.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016AGUFMIN51D..06W
- Keywords:
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- 1916 Data and information discovery;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1960 Portals and user interfaces;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1976 Software tools and services;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1994 Visualization and portrayal;
- INFORMATICS