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GCMD Publications: Archives

2007

  • Stevens, Tyler. "Contributions to the International Polar Year (IPY) from NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)". American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco,
    CA, 10-14 December 2007. (Presentation)
  • Stevens, Tyler and Mao,Jianping. "Accessing Earth Observation Platforms and Instruments through NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)". American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 10-14 December 2007. (Presentation)
  • Stevens, Tyler. "NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Support for eGY Initiatives". American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 10-14 December 2007. (Presentation)
  • Olsen, Lola and Mao, Jianping, "GCMD Population and Usage Stats", the DAAC Managers Meeting,Washington, DC, 14-16 Nov. 2007. (Presentation)
  • Olsen, Lola. Ritz, Scott. Mao, Jianping. Restrepo, Arturo. "Discover Climate Information through NASA's Global Change Master Directory". Climate Information: Responding to User Needs (CIRUN) Conference, College Park, MD, 22-23 October 2007. (Poster)
  • Stevens, Tyler. "CEOS WGISS 24 - IDN Task Team". CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS) Fall Meeting, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, 15-19 October 2007 (Presentation)
  • Stevens, Tyler. "IDN Services Update". CEOS Working Group on Information Systems and Services (WGISS) Fall Meeting, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, 15-19 October 2007. (Presentation)
  • Meaux, Melanie. "Improved Search and Retrieval of Ocean Biodiversity Information through NASA's Global Change Master Directory", International Conference on Biodiversity Data Management, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2-4 October, 2007. (Presentation)
  • Meaux, Melanie F. "The Antarctic Master Directory:  a metadata portal network for data discovery, access, and exchange of Antarctic data and services".  Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management (JCADM-11), Rome, Italy, 2-7 September, 2007. (Presentation)
  • Olsen, Lola (Editor), Chiddo, Chrissy and Ajayi, Anthony and Holland, Monica (Designers). Committee on Earth Observation Satellites International Directory Network (CEOS IDN) Newsletter, Issue 23, September 2007, 10 pp.
  • Stevens, Tyler. "Accessing Instrument and Platform Descriptions through NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)". Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Summer Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, 17-20 July 2007. (Poster)
  • Stevens, Tyler. "Discover Earth Science Data and Services Using NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) and the DIF/SERF". Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Summer Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, 17-20 July 2007. (Presentation)
  • Olsen, Lola (Editor). Chiddo, Chrissy and Holland, Monica (Designers). Committee on Earth Observation Satellites International Directory Network (CEOS IDN) Newsletter, Issue 22, April 2007, 10 pp.
  • Meaux, Melanie F. "All Roads Lead to Data: Searching from Multiple Entry Points." The Nineteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XIX), Trieste, Italy, 12-16 March 2007. (Poster)
  • Olsen, Lola. "The Value of Controlled Vocabularies Beyond the Data Reference Model (DRM 2.0): The Importance of Normalization For the Data Search." Presented at the Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP). February 6, 2007. (Presentation)
  • Stevens, Tyler. "Access to Local Geospatial Data and Metadata Through NASA's Global Change Master Directory and Prototype Mapserver". ESRI Federal User Conference, Washington, D.C., 9-11 January 2007. (Poster)
  • Meaux, Melanie F. "Demo: docBUILDER - A Web-based metadata authoring tool". 2007 Winter Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), Portland, Oregon, 3-5 January 2007. (Presentation)
  • Meaux, Melanie F. "Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)". 2007 Winter Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), Portland, Oregon, 3-5 January 2007. (Poster)

2006

  • Stevens, Tyler. "Providing a standardized approach for cataloging, discovering, and utilizing open source geospatial software and tools through NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)". American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 11-15 December 2006. (Presentation)
  • Stevens, Tyler. "An overview of NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)." American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 11-15 December 2006. (Presentation)
  • Stevens, Tyler. "The GCMD docBUILDER Solo metadata authoring tool." American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 11-15 December 2006. (Presentation)
  • Major, Gene R. and L.M. Olsen. "Re-discovering the past: Locating proxy records for paleoclimate reconstructions." Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 22-24 October 2006. (Presentation)
  • Meaux, Melanie. "Ancillary descriptions for instruments and platforms." Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) Sensor Interoperability Metadata Workshop, Portland, Maine, 19-20 October 2006. (Presentation)
  • Olsen, Lola. M. "Controlled vocabularies boost international participation and normalization of searches." Seventh International Conference on Hydrosciences and Engineering (ICHE), Metadata in Hydroscience Mini Symposium, Drexel University College of Engineering Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11 September 2006. (Presentation)
  • Meaux Melanie. "Are standards real standards any more?" Seventh International Conference on HydroScience and Engineering, Metadata in Hydroscience Mini Symposium, Drexel University College of Engineering Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11 September 2006. (Presentation)
  • Olsen, Lola (Editor), Committee on Earth Observation Satellites International Directory Network (CEOS IDN), Issue 21, August 2006, 13 pp.
  • Major, Gene R. "Wine-ing about Climate." In Olsen, L. (ed.) Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) International Directory Network (IDN) Newsletter, Issue 21, August 2006, p.9.
  • Stevens, Tyler. "Analyzing environmental geospatial data sets for the Annapolis area using the IDN prototype mapserver." In Olsen, L. (ed.) Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)
    International Directory Network (IDN) Newsletter, Issue 21, August 2006, p. 10.
  • Olsen, Lola. M. and Meaux, M. "Process and plans in support of the polar community". SCAR Open Science Conference XXIX / COMNAP XVIII SCALOP Symposium, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 9-19 July 2006. (Presentation)
  • Meaux Melanie. "The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD) progress and status. Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management (JCADM-10), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 9-19 July 2006. (Presentation)
  • Meaux, Melanie. "Serving fisheries and ocean metadata to communities around the world." Workshop on Using Metadata Standards to Achieve Data Interoperability, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, 13-14 June 2006. (Presentation)
  • Stevens, T. "NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD): Managing metadata for discovering and accessing Earth science data and services in support of the National Cyberinfrastructure." Geoinformatics 2006 Meeting, Reston, Virginia, 10-12 May 2006. (Presentation)
  • Olsen, Lola (Editor), Committee on Earth Observation Satellites International Directory Network (CEOS IDN) Newsletter, Issue 20, March 2006, 11 pp.
  • Stevens, Tyler. "The IDN mapserver update." Olsen, L.M. (ed.), Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) International Directory Network (IDN) Newsletter, Issue 20, March 2006, p. 6.
  • Stevens, Tyler and S. Ritz. Geospatial metadata support between the IDN and Geospatial One-Stop. Olsen, L.M. (ed.), Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) International Directory Network (IDN) Newsletter, Issue 20, March 2006, p. 6.
  • Major, Gene. "IDN data set descriptions reflect recent climate research results." Olsen, L.M. (ed.), Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) International Directory Network (IDN) Newsletter, Issue 20, March 2006, p. 7.
  • Olsen, Lola M. "Integrating ideas for international data collaborations through the International Directory Network (IDN)." Olsen, L.M. (ed.), Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)
    International Directory Network (IDN) Newsletter, Issue 20, March 2006, p. 11.
  • Meaux, Melanie. "IPY Data Workshop". International Polar Year Data Management Workshop, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, England, 3-4 March 2006, (Presentation)
  • Stevens, Tyler. "Geospatial metadata support between NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) and Geospatial One-Stop (GOS)". Towson University GIS Conference, Towson, Maryland. 21 March 2006. (Poster)
  • Major, Gene R. "Where's the data? Finding atmospheric science data sets for research in NASA's Global Change Master Directory." Ninth Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI)
    Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 1-3 February 2006. (Presentation)
  • Olsen, Lola M. "Role of the Global Change Master Directory in the ESIP Federation", Earth Science Information Partners Federation Winter Meeting, Washington, D.C., 3-6 January 2006. (Presentation)

2005

  • Ritz, S. G. Major, L. Olsen. 2005. "Streamlining The Exchange of Metadata through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)", presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Winter meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 7, 2005.
  • Weir, H., J. Pollack, G. Major and L. Olsen. 2005. docBUILDER - Building Your Useful Metadata for Earth Science Data and Service. Presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Winter Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 6, 2005.
  • Meaux, M. "Increasing the visibility of global ocean data sets through the GLOBEC Metadata Portal: NASA's Global Change Master Directory". Article in the Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) International Newsletter, Volume 11, No. 2. October 2005.
  • Meaux, M. 2005. "Online Metadata Directories: A way of preserving, sharing and discovering scientific information". Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership (GoMODP) Metadata Training Workshop, October 19-20, 2005, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME
  • Weir, H., G. Major and L. Olsen. 2005. Natural Hazard Information through NASA's Global Change Master Directory. Presented at the Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT., October 16, 2005.
  • Meaux, M. "Antarctic Master Directory (AMD) Part 5: What's Next". Talk presented at the Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management, JCADM-9, Buenos Aires, September 12-16, 2005.
  • Meaux, M. "Antarctic Master Directory (AMD), Part 4: Progress Report 2005". Talk presented at the Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management, JCADM-9, Buenos Aires, September 12-16, 2005.
  • Meaux, M. "Antarctic Master Directory (AMD), Part 3: What's New". Talk presented at the Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management, JCADM-9, Buenos Aires, September 12-16, 2005.
  • Meaux, M. "Antarctic Master Directory (AMD), Part 2: A Hands-On Demonstration of Entering a DIF". Talk presented at the Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management, JCADM-9, Buenos Aires, September 12-16, 2005.
  • Meaux, M. "The Antarctic Master Directory (AMD), Part 1: The DIF Standard". Talk presented at the Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management, JCADM-9, Buenos Aires, September 12-16, 2005.
  • Meaux, M and T. de Bruin. "JCADM-9, Buenos Aires, 12-16 September 2005". Article in the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) International Directory Network (IDN) Newsletter, Issue 19, August 2005.
  • Lief, C., G. Major and L. Olsen. 2005. Global Observing Systems Datasets in the Global Change Master Directory. Presented at the 2005 ESRI International User Conference, San Diego, CA July 27, 2005.
  • Meaux, M. "Edging Toward Interoperability". Talk presented at the 4th Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal (GO-ESSP) Community Workshop, British Atmospheric Data Center (BADC), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (CCLRC), Chilton, Didcot, England, June 6-8, 2005.
  • Meaux, M. and L. Olsen. "Locating Marine Data, Services and Tools through the NASA's Global Change Master Directory". Poster presented at the International Marine Data and Information Systems (IMDIS) Conference, Brest, France, May 31-June 3rd, 2005.
  • Lief, Christina, L. Olsen, and G. Major. 2005. "Global Observing Systems Information Center (GOSIC) Dataset Information Available through NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)". To be presented at International Marine Data and Information Systems Conference, Brest, France, 31 May - 3 June, 2005.
  • Meaux, M. and L. Olsen. 2005. "Pathways to Earth Science Data and Services through NASA's Global Change Master Directory", Presented at the International Oceanograhic Data Exchange (IODE) XVIII, Oostende, Belgium, April 25-30, 2005.
  • Meaux, M. and L. Olsen. 2005. "The Life Cycle of NASA's Global Change Master Directory Metadata Format - Directory Interchange Format". Presented at the International Oceanograhic Data Exchange (IODE) XVIII, Oostende, Belgium, April 25-30, 2005.
  • Meaux, M. and L. Olsen 2005. "Simplifying the search for ocean data sets and services through NASA's Global Change Master Directory". Presented at the ASLO 2005 Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 20-25, 2005.
  • Stevens, T. 2005. "Serving NASA's Data To The GIS Community: An ArcIMS Mapserver Example". Presented at the the ESRI Federal User Conference, Washington, DC. February 1-3, 2005.
  • Major, G., Lief, C., Olsen, L., Ritz, S., Servin, G., and White, D. 2005. "Global Observing System Information Center (GOSIC) Data Set Information Available Through NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)". Presented at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 8-13, 2005

2004

  • L.M. Olsen and A. Kleidon. 2004. Clouds Versus Carbon: Predicting Vegetation Roughness by Maximizing Productivity. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA December 13-17, 2004.
  • S. Ritz and L. Olsen. 2004. Utilizing the extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) Standard to Enhance Interoperability Between NASA and NOAA XML Metadata-Databases. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17, 2004.
  • H. Weir and L. Olsen. 2004. Locating Geoscience Data and Tools through NASA's Global Change Master Directory. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 13-17, 2004.
  • H. Weir, G. Major, and L. Olsen. 2004. Locating Geoscience Data and Tools through NASA's Global Change Master Directory. Presented at the Geological Society of America (GSA), Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 5-11, 2004.
  • M. Meaux and L. Olsen. 2004. NASA's Global Change Master Directory: Supporting Operational, Numerical, and Research Ocean Data Set. Presented at the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) 2nd Symposium, St. Petersburg, FL, Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2004.
  • Leicester, S. and L. Olsen, 2004. "Discovering the Growing Data Resources in the Antarctic", Presented at: "eAntarctica: From data management to information portals", Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) annual meeting in Bremen, July 25-31, 2004.
  • Stevens, T. 2004. Accessing Geospatial Data and Services through the NASA Global Change Master Directory, Presented at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 14-19, 2004.
  • Pollack, J. and L. M. Olsen. 2004. Metadata Authoring with Versatility and Extensibility. Presented at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 14-19, 2004.
  • Rutledge, G.K., J. Alpert, R. Stouffer, S. Hankin, B. Doty, E. Davis, B. Lawrence, M. Fiorino, D. Williams, L.Olsen, and L. Buja. 2004. The NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS): A Status Report. Presented at the 20th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, January 11-16, 2004, Seattle, WA.

2003

  • Major, G. 2003. "Beyond bibliography: A dynamic approach to the cataloging of multidisciplinary environmental data for global change research", in Balwin, V., ed. Online Ecological and Environmental Data, The Haworth Information Press, Inc., pp. 21-36. DOI: 10.1300/J122v23n04_03. Joint publication in Science & Technology Libraries, Vol 23. No. 4 pp. 21-36.
  • Weir, H. 2003. "NASA's Global Change Master Directory: Introducing Services It's not just data any more", Poster presentation at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall 2003 Annual Meeting, December 7-12, 2003, San Francisco, CA.
  • Stevens, T. 2003. "Retrieving geospatial data and services using the NASA Global Change Master Directory", Poster presentation at the Towson University GIS Conference (TUGIS), June 2-5, 2003, Towson State University, Towson, MD.
  • Ritz, S. 2003. "Locating and Referencing NASA Terra and Aqua Data and Data-Related Services Using NASA's Global Change Master Directory", Poster presentation at the 19th Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) session at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, February 9-14, 2003, Long Beach, CA.
2002
  • Solomon, C. 2002. "The NASA Global Change Master Directory - An Online Database to locate Earth Science, including Human Health and Ecosystems, Data". Poster presentation at the Healthy Ecosystems Conference, June 7-8, 2002.
  • Holland, M., and L.Olsen. GCMD Ocean Sciences and Project Overview. Presentation at Second Session, International Oceanographic Data Exchange (IODE) MEDI software Steering Group. April 2-4,2002 East West Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI
  • Ritz, S. 2002. "NASA's Global Change Master Directory's New Distributed Metadata Database Attracts Large Influx of Data Descriptions", Distributed Data and Metadata Session, American Meteorological Association Annual Meeting, January 12-13, 2002, Orlando, FL.
  • Raskin, R., H. Burrows, H. Conover, J. Gallagher, G. Major, and T. Rhyne. 2002. Discovering and Accessing Data from the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners, EOS, Transactions of the American Geosphysical Union, Vol. 83, No. 47, 19 November 2002.
  • Major, G.R. and L. Olsen. 2002. "Earth Observing System (EOS) Data and Service Records Growing Through NASA's Global Change Master Directory", Poster presentation: Special session of EOS, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
  • Major, G. R. and L. Olsen. 2002. "Integrating traditional user-based search and retrieval with information technologies for metadata sharing in a global environmental change information system", presented at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, November 2002. In Proceedings of the 65th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Vol. 39, pp. 545-546.
  • Holland, M. 2002. "Online Data Portals: Organizing ocean data for the scientific community" featured article in International GLOBEC Newsletter Volume 8, No.2. page 37
  • Holland, M. 2002. "Online Data Portals: Organizing Ocean Data for the Scientific Community", Presented at the Seventh International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, May 20-22, 2002, Miami, FL
  • Holland, M., and G.Major. 2002 "Data Discovery through the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) DODS Portal", Presentation at the NVODS/DODS Technical Working Conference January 9-11, 2002, Boulder, CO (Presentation)
2001
  • Weir, H. 2001. "Using NASA's Global Change Master Directory in an Earth Science Curriculum" presented at the "Strategies Which Foster Broad Use and Deployment of Earth and Space Science Informal and Formal Education Resources" session at the Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, December, 2001.
  • Weir, H. 2001. "Discovering Data You Can Use in Earth Science Education Through NASA's Global Change Master Directory" presented at "DLESE and Digital Earth: Bridging Multidimensional Geospatial Data Resources for Educators II" session, American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, May 29-June 2, 2001.
  • Pollack, J. 2001. "Syntactic and Semantic Validation within a Metadata Management System" presented at the EO/GEO Meeting Fredericton, NB, Canada June 25-29, 2001.
  • Holland, M., and L.Olsen. Presentation at First Session of the IODE Steering Group for MEDI, Oostende, Belgium, 23-27 April 2001.
  • Pollack, J. 2001. "An Interactive, Web-based Approach to Metadata Authoring", presented at the Association of American Geographers, February 27-March 2, 2001.
  • Olsen, L. 2001. "Supporting Interagency Collaboration through the Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS), presented by H. Weir at American Meteorological Society, January 16, 2001.
  • Miled, Z.B., Sikkupparbathyam, S., O. Bukhres, K. Nagendra, E. Lynch, M. Areal, L. Olsen, C. Gokey, D. Kendig, T. Northcutt, R. Cordova, G. Major, and J. Savage. 2001. "Global Change Master Directory: Object-oriented active asynchronous transaction management in a federated environment using data agents. Proceedings of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 11-14, 2001, Las Vegas, NV, USA. ACM 2001, 207-214.
  • Leicester, S., G. R. Major, L. Olsen, and L. Belbin. 2001. "The Virtual Antarctic Master Directory: A portal to Antarctic data sets". Poster presented at the Geological Society of America, November, 2001. 2001 Annual Proceedings of the Geoscience Information Society, Vol. 32, pp. 143-154.
  • Ritz, S. 2001. Portals Of Discovery: Customized Gateways to Discovering Earth Science Data". Presented at the American Meteorological Society, January 16, 2001.
2000
  • Holland,M., and L.Olsen. "Global Change Master Directory". Plenary Presentation and Interactive Poster Demonstration at Sixteenth Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE), Lisbon, Portugal, October 30 – November 9, 2000.
  • Kendig, D., C. Gokey, R.T. Northcutt, and L. Olsen. 2000. "Metadata Sharing Among Distributed Heterogeneous Databases Using Java Technology: A Turn-key Solution" presented at EO/GEO 2000, London, England, April 17-19, 2000.
  • Smith, S. and R.T. Northcutt. 2000. "Improving Multiple Site Services: The GCMD Proxy Server System Implementation ", presented at EO/GEO 2000, London, England, April 17-19, 2000.
  • Olsen, Lola, 2000, "Discovering and Using Global Databases" Chapter 10 in Global Environmental Databases - Present Situation: Future Directions, ed R. Tateishi and d. Hastings. International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.
  • Holland,M, Kendig, D, and L.Olsen. Presentation about GCMD and host for IODE Group of Experts on Technical Aspects of Data Exchange (GETADE) Eighth Session, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre Greenbelt, MD, United States of America,March 13-17, 2000.
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