New Task: Link ATN metadata to original OTN project

[laurabrenskelle]

Who is requesting this?

@ioos/marine-life past ATN network coordinators, DAC funders and ATN SG requested this

What is being requested?

The original Trello card says: "3.6.2 Develop metadata for ATN portal to link to original OTN project, for access to additional information, such as raw detection files & receiver locations

Projects exposed in the existing ATN Data Catalog allowing users to discover acoustic projects by name, PI, species, location and view project-level metadata."

What is the requested deadline and why?

No response

What is the current status quo (i.e., what happens if this does not get done)?

Users accessing data via the ATN portal may not be aware of the additional information available on the OTN project page.

What indicates this is done (i.e., how do we know this is complete)?

No response

Provide a description or any other important information.

This is from a Marine Life Data Network Trello card with the dates May 1, 2023 - July 31, 2023.

[MathewBiddle]

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[MathewBiddle]

Who is the requestor here? I don't think the marine life team are appropriate to deem this something worth our time/resources. Where did this request originally come from?

[mmckinzie]

Task originally came for old ATN workplans/statements of work.

[MathewBiddle]

Thanks. Did someone ask ATN to do this? How did the task get into the old ATN workplans/statements of work?

Also, what are the prerequisites for this? Does this inherently mean ATN would be bringing in OTN data? I think we need a little bit more clarity on what the task actually is.

[mmckinzie]

Yes, past ATN network coordinators, DAC funders and our SG asked for this. Integrating acoustic data into the DAC and supporting the acoustic telemetry community is also in ATNs implementation plan. In one form or another it's been in every one of your yearly workplans/statements of work since Axiom took of management of the DAC. But we need to revisit whether or not this task is still appropriate and of priority. The services OTN and regional nodes provides to this community have continued to evolve since some of this tasking was originally drafted and therefore our goals/objectives and the role ATN and the DAC should/could play may need to shift as a result and need to be revised or at least revisited.

Prerequisites would be to actually start ingesting acoustic data (not just metadata) into the DAC from OTN proper, regional acoustic nodes, possibly OBIS and in some form integrate these data and related metadata into the ATN portal/catalog. Then creating a mechanism to link ATN portal to original source.

[jdpye]

I think now that so much time has passed on this task without action, and as Meg says, the landscape has changed a lot around it in terms of what powers the Nodes have to mobilize their data and metadata, redefining the ATN role in promoting and aggregating data, especially the 'why' is valuable.

Nodes (here 'regional' nodes, but some are national or international in scope) are always the authoritative copy of the data, where researchers can go to extend and correct study data and see it matched across the global network. ATN's role in promoting and creating a federal 'shell' for these efforts to nest within is important but in terms of providing accurate information to end users and helping with data and project discovery, there's a potentially crucial role to play. Leverating OTN infrastructure has been the way Axiom has moved the discovery-level metadata around in the past, but not always through the official endpoints (GeoServer), but by scraping the old OTN web portal. This system probably broke when OTN upgraded its web portal software late last year.