NOAA Video Data Management System Modernization

2017 ANNUAL REPORT

Background

NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is an integration of NOAA/NESDIS National Data Centers in Asheville, NC; Boulder, CO; Stennis, MS; and Silver Spring, MD to provide access to the world's most comprehensive environmental data. The Silver Spring, MD location was formerly known as the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). NCEI is composed of two main centers: the Center for Weather and Climate; and the Center for Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics (http://www.ncei.noaa.gov/). NCEI hosts and provides public access to over 20 petabytes of comprehensive atmospheric, coastal, oceanic, and geophysical data. NCEI provides scientific and public stewardship for the nation’s environmental data, maintains and updates archives of these data, and contributes scientific research and produce products from these data that help monitor global environmental changes.

Since January of 2015, Fred Katz has been part of CICS-MD and has been working on the Video Data Management Modernization Initiative (VDMMI) team at NCEI. The VDDMI is an ongoing, multi-year project jointly supported by OER, NCEI, and NOAA/CLASS. The VDMMI team is responsible for standardizing and optimizing documentation, discovery and access to environmental data collected on video media.

Accomplishments

• Developed video data discovery geoportal for OER video archived in CLASS
• Led project to transfer technology from the OER Video Data Management Model forarchiving physical video tape data to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Hydrocarbon Seep Video collection
• Directed usability and access improvements to OER video geoportal website
• Archived legacy video data originally captured on physical video tape from Islands in the Stream 2001 and Florida Coast Deep Corals 2005 expeditions
• Developed software tools for inventorying and monitoring growth in OEDV holdings in Central Library
• Supported migration of OEDV video from Central Library to NCEI servers

Planned work           

• Document VDMMI history and process as a case study/model for Big Earth Data Initiative (BEDI)
• Continue to develop OER video geoportal
• Continue to oversee technology transfer for the BOEM Hydrocarbon Seep Video collection
• Develop automated workflows to more efficiently transfer high volume video data and associated metadata from submersible-based monitoring cameras to be archived in CLASS and make discoverable though NOAA Geoportals
• Develop user-focused documentation for the Advanced Tracking and Resource tool for Archive Collections (ATRAC), an online interface for the science community to archive and track high-volume datasets

Products        

OER Video Portal (https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/oer/video/)

Presentations

Katz  F., Blythe, J.“Legacy Video - A Practical Application in Video Rescue and Management,” 2017. NOAA Environmental Data Management Workshop. Bethesda, MD. Jan 2017 (talk). https://nosc.noaa.gov/EDMW_2017/2017-EDMW-presentations/5D/5D.3 Katz_BOEM_Seep_Video_2016_0110.pptx