1 NCEI includes the organizations previously referred to as National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). 2 Repeat these last two lines to capture the SMM modification history Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Maturity Scale Ad Hoc Minimal Intermediate Advanced Optimal (across) Not Managed Managed Managed Level 4 + Managed Limited Defined, Partially Well-Defined, Fully Measured , Controlled , Audit Key Component Stewardship Maturity Rating Implemented Implemented (below) And Justification or Evidence Comments Designated archive Non-designated Level 4 + Preservability Redundancy repository Any storage Level 3 + Archiving process performance Community-standard location controlled, measured, and audited Redundancy Conforming to community (The state of being archiving metadata Data only archiving standards Future archiving standard changes Limited archiving preservable) Conforming to limited planned metadata archiving standards Level Level 3 + Publicly available Community-standard data Level 2 + service Direct file Non-standard data service Level 4 + Accessibility Not publicly download (e.g., via Enhanced data server Limited data server Dissemination reports available available anonymous FTP performance (The state of being performance online server) Conforming to community searchable and Granule/file level Future technology and standard Collection/dataset search metrics accessible publicly) searchable changes planned level searchable Dissemination report metrics Limited search metrics online defined and implemented internally Extensive Community standard-based Level Level 4 + Level 3 + Non-standard interoperable format & Enhanced online capability (e.g., Basic capability (e.g., data format metadata Usability visualization, multiple data formats) subsetting, aggregating) & knowledge Limited Documentation (e.g., data characterization Community metrics of data required (The state of being documentation source code, product (overall/global, e.g., characterization (regional/cell) easy to use) No (e.g., user’s guide) algorithm document, climatology, error estimates) online documentation online processing or/and data flow available online External ranking online diagram) online Level Production Ad Hoc or Not Medium-term Long-term 4 + Short-term applicable Sustainability Institutional commitment Institutional commitment National or international Individual PI’s No obligation (contractual deliverables commitment commitment (grant Product improvement (The state of data or deliverable with specs and schedule obligations) process in place Changes for technology planned requirement defined) production being
1 NCEI includes the organizations previously referred to as National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC), and National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). 2 Repeat these last two lines to capture the SMM modification history Maturity Scale (across) Level 1 Ad Hoc Not Managed Level 2 Minimal Managed Limited Level 3 Intermediate Managed Defined, Partially Implemented Level 4 Advanced Managed Well-Defined, Fully Implemented Level 5 Optimal Level 4 + Measured , Controlled , Audit Key Component (below) Stewardship Maturity Rating And Justification or Evidence Comments Preservability (The state of being preservable) Any storage location Data only Non-designated repository Redundancy Limited archiving metadata Designated archive Redundancy Community-standard archiving metadata Conforming to limited archiving standards Level 3 + Conforming to community archiving standards Level 4 + Archiving process performance controlled, measured, and audited Future archiving standard changes planned Accessibility (The state of being searchable and accessible publicly) Not publicly available Publicly available Direct file download (e.g., via anonymous FTP server) Collection/dataset level searchable online Level 2 + Non-standard data service Limited data server performance Granule/file level searchable Limited search metrics Level 3 + Community-standard data service Enhanced data server performance Conforming to community search metrics Dissemination report metrics defined and implemented internally Level 4 + Dissemination reports available online Future technology and standard changes planned Level Usability (The state of being easy to use) Extensive knowledge required No documentation online Non-standard data format Limited documentation (e.g., user’s guide) online Community standard-based interoperable format & metadata Documentation (e.g., source code, product algorithm document, processing or/and data flow diagram) online Level 3 + Basic capability (e.g., subsetting, aggregating) & data characterization (overall/global, e.g., climatology, error estimates) available online Level 4 + Enhanced online capability (e.g., visualization, multiple data formats) Community metrics of data characterization (regional/cell) online External ranking Level Production Sustainability (The state of data production being Ad Hoc or Not applicable No obligation or deliverable requirement Short-term Individual PI’s commitment (grant obligations) Medium-term Institutional commitment (contractual deliverables with specs and schedule defined) Long-term Institutional commitment Product improvement process in place 4 + National or international commitment Changes for technology planned Level
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