Next Generation Data Environments

Deborah L. McGuinnessAGU Fall Meeting - IN34A Invited Talk

ABSTRACT: We live in an era of data proliferation – more instruments are capturing data, more entities are publishing data, often making the data discoverable and widely available. Along with the data explosion, more tools and strategies are emerging for finding, using, and making sense of this next generation of widely available, massively growing datasets. In this contribution, we will take one of current use cases – environmentally motivated water research – and use this scenario to describe some current challenges around data interoperability and often unanticipated usage issues in the evolving data ecosystems. We will also discuss some emerging semantic strategies for data usage in broad and diverse settings and then discuss evolving trends.