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Global climate change is a topic that has become very controversial despite strong support within the scientific community. It is common for agencies releasing information about climate change to be served with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for everything that led to that conclusion. Capturing and presenting the provenance, linking to the research papers, data sets, models, analyses, observation instruments and satellites, etc. supporting key findings has the potential to mitigate skepticism in this domain.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is now coordinating the production of a National Climate Assessment (NCA) that presents our best understanding of global change. We are now developing a Global Change Information System (GCIS) that will present the content of that report and its provenance, including the scientific support for the findings of the assessment. We are using an approach that will present this information both through a human accessible web site as well as a machine readable interface for automated mining of the provenance graph. We plan to use the developing W3C PROV Data Model and Ontology for this system.
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U.S. Code: Global Change Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-606) (1990)
U.S. Code: The Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) (1972)
U.S. Global Change Research Program: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (2009)
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Tilmes, C. (2012). Provenance Representation in the Global Change Information System (GCIS). In: Groth, P., Frew, J. (eds) Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes. IPAW 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7525. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34222-6_28
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