Integration of Phenological Forecast Maps for Assessment of Biodiversity: An Enterprise Workflow
Recent open data policies of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which were fully enforceable on October 1, 2016, require that federally funded information products (publications, etc.) be made freely available to the public, and that the underlying data on which the conclusions are based must be released. A key and relevant aspect of these policies is that data collected by USGS programs must be shared with the public, and that these data are subject to the review requirements of Fundamental Science Practices (FSP). These new policies add a substantial burden to USGS scientists and science centers; however, the upside of working towards compliance with top-down policies is improved discovery, accessibility (including machine readability), integration, and use of data for novel applications in support of the broader USGS mission. The purpose of this research was to exercise these new policies, as they relate to production of real-time and short-term forecasts of gridded biodiversity data, as a model for similar production and delivery of data products from other USGS projects and programs.
The objectives of this project were as follows:
- Establish and document a generalized workflow for making USGS biodiversity data and data products available for use by other programs within the USGS as well as by external partners and the public.
- Develop technical documentation and open-source code, enabling others to reuse infrastructure for data processing, validation, delivery, and reporting on data usage.
- Document this generalized workflow and lessons learned to significantly advance the delivery and translation of critical ecological information for a variety of stakeholders within the Department of Interior (DOI) and beyond in a USGS open-file report (OFR).
- Produce and release dynamic gridded maps, historical, real-time, and short-term forecasted predictions of leaf-out and flowering for several plant species, and underlying accumulated temperature data products through a case study serving as a test bed for developing a generalized workflow for real-time delivery of dynamic biodiversity data products.
: Jake Weltzin
Cooperator/Partner : Alyssa Rosemartin, Lee Marsh, Sky Bristol, Tim Kern, Theresa Crimmins
- Source: USGS Sciencebase (id: 56d8784fe4b015c306f6cfca)
Development and release of phenological data products—A case study in compliance with federal open data policy Development and release of phenological data products—A case study in compliance with federal open data policy
USA National Phenology Network gridded products documentation USA National Phenology Network gridded products documentation
Recent open data policies of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which were fully enforceable on October 1, 2016, require that federally funded information products (publications, etc.) be made freely available to the public, and that the underlying data on which the conclusions are based must be released. A key and relevant aspect of these policies is that data collected by USGS programs must be shared with the public, and that these data are subject to the review requirements of Fundamental Science Practices (FSP). These new policies add a substantial burden to USGS scientists and science centers; however, the upside of working towards compliance with top-down policies is improved discovery, accessibility (including machine readability), integration, and use of data for novel applications in support of the broader USGS mission. The purpose of this research was to exercise these new policies, as they relate to production of real-time and short-term forecasts of gridded biodiversity data, as a model for similar production and delivery of data products from other USGS projects and programs.
The objectives of this project were as follows:
- Establish and document a generalized workflow for making USGS biodiversity data and data products available for use by other programs within the USGS as well as by external partners and the public.
- Develop technical documentation and open-source code, enabling others to reuse infrastructure for data processing, validation, delivery, and reporting on data usage.
- Document this generalized workflow and lessons learned to significantly advance the delivery and translation of critical ecological information for a variety of stakeholders within the Department of Interior (DOI) and beyond in a USGS open-file report (OFR).
- Produce and release dynamic gridded maps, historical, real-time, and short-term forecasted predictions of leaf-out and flowering for several plant species, and underlying accumulated temperature data products through a case study serving as a test bed for developing a generalized workflow for real-time delivery of dynamic biodiversity data products.
: Jake Weltzin
Cooperator/Partner : Alyssa Rosemartin, Lee Marsh, Sky Bristol, Tim Kern, Theresa Crimmins
- Source: USGS Sciencebase (id: 56d8784fe4b015c306f6cfca)