Context ofcommunity support in ACTRIS

Complete ACTRIS report on Community Support available at: https://envriplus.manageprojects.com/projects/requirements/notebooks/470/pages/36/comments/326/attachments/392/download

Summary of ACTRIS requirements for community support

Detailed requirements

Training Requirements

Currently, ACTRIS is not using any e-infrastructure technology, but in the future, they would like to use some.  Furthermore, ACTRIS does not have well defined the community-training plan. They have already some courses and documentation in the web [1] for teaching how to use the data products provided by ACTRIS. In the future, they are thinking to run some webinars for explaining how to use their data products.

ACTRIS does not need yet e-Infrastructure solutions, but maybe in the future, cloud technology could be adopted. 

Probably a subset of ACTRIS community will be interested in receive some training courses on e-Infrastructure technology.

May be a good idea to train some scientists within ACTRIS communities in cloud computing, and platforms for performing trainings (or webinars) to users (e.g. Adobe connection).

The audience within ACTRIS can be divided in 3 levels:

• People that belong to ACTRIS RI and want to use the data products
• Management, people that are in the coordination of the RI
• Technicians

The most appropriate method to deliver this training, would be the ACTRIS’ website.

Requirements for the Community Support Subsystem

The required functionalities are mailing list, wiki, twitter (for inform people within and outside ACTRIS), announcement through the website, forums on the website (for inside ACTRIS), events notifications and documentation.

The non-functional requirement identified by ACTRIS is the registration of users to get the data from the database for  two main reasons: statistical and protection of the data. Open source code and intellectual property right for some algorithms developed in ACTRIS.

About the standards, most of the data is in NetCDF format, but ACTRIS is moving to CF(Climate and Forecast )1.5-Compliant format. For near surface data the datasets are archived and provided in NASA-Ames 100.

In the description of the databases they have stored the metadata, which is also available in the website. The data and metadata can be linked (but no with PIDs) by the name of the files.

ACTRIS uses as community software: mailing list, forums, Skype, Web, etc. 

References:

1. http://actris.nilu.no/Content/Resources/Products/
2. http://indico.github.io/

Formalities (who & when)