Earth Science Software Reuse

Welcome to the Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Software Reuse Portal. Please visit the ESDS Working Group Page for more information about our group.

The WG is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 Peer-Recognition Award who received their awards at the 7th ESDS WG Meeting. Congratulations, and thank you for your reuse efforts. The WG is accepting nominations for the 2009 award until July 31 -- please see the awards section for more information.

We have updated our reuse definitions including what the Working Group does and does not consider reuse in our Resources, Library section, and posted a brochure about our group and its activities. A new section on the Reuse Readiness Levels (RRLs) we have been developing has been added to provide easier access to all of the RRL material posted on the site. A number of bottom-up reuse guidelines, a technology transfer guideline, and a technology transfer FAQ to help explain NASA's technology transfer process are now available in the Resources, Guideline Documents section. Some of our more recent publications have been added to the Resources, Library, Publications section, the latest of which are our DSADR paper discussing some of the WG's major activities, presented at a workshop during ICSR 10 (here are the DSADR slides used for the presentation), and our 2008 IGARSS paper about the current state of our Reuse Readiness Level work. We've also posted a copy of our 2008 AGU poster describing our progress in developing a prototype Reuse Enablement System (RES). This and other posters/presentations are available in a new presentations folder under Resources, Library. Our full list of upcoming events is also in the Resources section, and we have added a list of some awards that are relevant to reuse projects in a new folder in the Resources section, including the peer-recognition award developed by the WG (the nomination form is also available as a separate document). The reuse material used at our 2008 annual meeting has been posted in the 7th ESDS WG Meeting folder under Resources, Library, and planning for the 8th ESDS WG Meeting is currently underway.

We have completed our survey to better understand the practice of software reuse within the Earth Science community. Preliminary survey findings are available on the web and have been published in a 2006 IGARSS paper. We have also posted some of our documents related to our proposed Reuse Enablement System (RES) in a new folder under the Resources section. Our trade study of existing systems, use cases for the proposed RES, and requirements for the proposed RES are currently available. Additional documentation as well as a roadmap and schedule for RES deployment are under development and will be added as they are completed.

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