A unified framework for measuring stewardship practices applied to digital environmental datasets

Data Science Journal

Volumn 13, Issue , 2015, Pages 231-253

  Peng, Ge ^a   Privette, Jeffrey L ^b   Kearns, Edward J ^b   Ritchey, Nancy A ^b   Ansari, Steve ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA/National Climate Data Center (NCDC)   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Data integrity; Data interoperability; Data quality; Digital earth data; Environmental data; Preservability; Stewardship maturity; Transparency; Usability

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; TRANSPARENCY; TRANSPORTATION;

ACCESSIBILITY; DATA INTEGRITY; DATA INTEROPERABILITY; DATA QUALITY; DIGITAL EARTH; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; PRESERVABILITY; STEWARDSHIP MATURITY; USABILITY;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84926637226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16831470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2481/dsj.14-049     Document Type: Article

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