Experiences Developing OAIS-RM Recommended Submission Agreements

The National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is responsible for the collection, archival, and dissemination of environmental data collected by a variety of in situ and remote sensing observing systems operated by NOAA and by a number of its partners, e.g., National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). To prepare for large increases in its data holdings, the NESDIS Office of Systems Development (OSD), has been developing the Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS). CLASS currently provides data acquisition, storage, access, and dissemination at three distinct locations: the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility (NSOF) in Suitland, Maryland; the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina; and the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) in Boulder, Colorado. CLASS currently holds data from Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES), Geo-stationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), and Initial Joint Polar-Orbiting Operational Satellite System (IJPS) satellites and derived products. Planned future data campaigns will add data from the Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) system, as well as the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP), Earth Observing System Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (EOS/MODIS), and GOES-R series satellite systems. CLASS has adopted the recommendations of the Open Archival Information System Reference Model (OAIS-RM) and has developed processes around these recommendations. The recommendation with the most impact on the way that CLASS conducts business is the development of Submission Agreements between the Producers and the Archive.