2. Information ‘Refinery’ Value Chain Information Informing Knowledge Action Productive Knowledge Data Organizing Grouping Classifying Formatting Displaying Analyzing Separating Evaluating Interpreting Synthesizing Judging Options Quality Advantages Disadvantages Deciding Matching goals Compromising Bargaining Deciding e.g. DAAC e.g. Langley IDEA, FASTNET, Forecast Modeling e.g. WG Reports e.g. RPO Manager Info. Quality Transform. Processes Examples ESIP – Facilitation ? Sates, EPA, International Value Chain Based on Taylor, 1975: Value-Added Processes in Information Systems

3. Data Flow & Processing in AQ Management AQ DATA EPA Networks IMPROVE Visibility Satellite-PM Pattern METEOROLOGY Met. Data Satellite-Transport Forecast model EMISSIONS National Emissions Local Inventory Satellite Fire Locs Status and Trends AQ Compliance Exposure Assess. Network Assess. Tracking Progress AQ Management Reports ‘ Knowledge’ Derived from Data Primary Data Diverse Providers Data ‘Refining’ Processes Filtering, Aggregation, Fusion

5. Air Quality Data Use (EPA Ambient Air Monitoring Strategy, 2004) Ecosystem assessment Science support, processes Strategies, SIPs, model eval. Tracking progress (trends) NAAQS compliance NAAQS (Nat. Amb AQ Std) Informing the public ESIP Role AQ Mangmt Activity

15. NSF-NOAA-EPA/EMAP (NASA)? Project: Real-Time Aerosol Watch System Real-Time Virtual PM Monitoring Dashboard. A web-page for one-stop access to pre-set views of current PM monitoring data including surface PM, satellite, weather and model data. Virtual Workgroup Website. An interactive website which facilitates the active participation of diverse members in the interpretation, discussion, summary and assessment of the on-line PM monitoring data. Air Quality Managers Console. Helps PM managers make decisions during major aerosol events; delivers a subset of the PM data relevant to the AQ managers, including summary reports prepared by the Virtual workgroups.

32. DataFed Topology: Mediated Peer-to-Peer Network, MP2P Mediated Peer-to Peer Network Broker maintains a catalog of accessible resources Peers find data and access instructions in the catalog Peers get resources directly from peer providers Google Example: Finding Images on Network Topology Google catalogs the images related to Network Topology User selects an image from the cached image catalog User visits the provider web-page where the image resides Source : Federal Standard 1037C Mediator Peers

33. Generic Data Flow and Processing in DATAFED DataView 1 Data Processed Data Portrayed Data Process Data Portrayal/ Render Abstract Data Access View Wrapper Physical Data Abstract Data Physical Data Resides in autonomous servers; accessed by view-specific wrappers which yield abstract data ‘slices’ Abstract Data Abstract data slices are requested by viewers; uniform data are delivered by wrapper services DataView 2 DataView 3 View Data Processed data are delivered to the user as multi-layer views by portrayal and overlay web services Processed Data Data passed through filtering, aggregation, fusion and other web services

40. Major Service Categories As envisioned by Open GiS Consortium ( OGC ) Service Category Description Human Interaction Managing user interfaces, graphics, presentation. Info. Management Managing and storage of metadata, schemas, datasets. Workflow Services that support specific tasks or work-related activities. Processing Data processing, computations; no data storage or transfer Communication Services that encode and transfer data across networks. Sys. Management Managing system components, applications, networks (access). 0000 OGC web service [ROOT] 1000 Human interaction 1100 Portrayal 1110 Geospatial viewer 1111 Animation 1112 Mosaicing 1113 Perspective 1114 Imagery 1120 Geospatial symbol editor 1130 Feature generalization editor 1200 Service interaction editor 1300 Registry browser 2000 Information Management 2100 Feature access 2200 Coverage access 2210 Real-time sensor 2300 Map access 2400 Gazetteer 2500 Registry 2600 Sensor access 2700 Order handling 3000 Workflow 3100 Chain definition 3200 Enactment 3300 Subscription 4000 Processing 4100 Spatial 4110 Coordinate conversion 4120 Coordinate transformation 4130 Representation conversion 4140 Orthorectification 4150 Subsetting 4160 Sampling 4170 Feature manipulation 4180 Feature generalization 4190 Route determination 41A0 Positioning 4200 Thematic 4210 Geoparameter calculation 4220 Thematic classification 4221 Unsupervised 4222 Supervised 4230 Change detection 4240 Radiometric correction 4250 Geospatial analysis 4260 Image processing 4261 Reduced resolution generation 4262 Image manipulation 4263 Image synthesis 4270 Geoparsing 4280 Geocoding 4300 Temporal 4310 Reference system transformation 4320 Subsetting 4330 Sampling 4340 Proximity analysis 4400 Metadata 4410 Statistical analysis 4420 Annotation 5000 Communication 5100 Encoding 5200 Format conversion 5300 Messaging 6000 System Management OGC code Service class

41. SOAP and WSDL SOAP Envelope for message description and processing A set of encoding rules for expressing data types Convention for remote procedure calls and responses A binding convention for exchanging messages WSDL Message format Ports

51. Interoperability Stack HTTP, SMTP addressing, data flow Transport XML data format Syntax Schema, WSDL types Data SOAP, WS-* ext. communication behavior Protocol WSDL ext., Policy, RDF meaning Semantics Standards Description Layer