HDF and HDF-EOS Workshop with a Call for Abstracts Happening Now

NASA and the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) Group will host the HDF and HDF-EOS Workshop XV on April 17-19 at the Raytheon EOSDIS Evolution and Development facility in Riverdale, MD.  This is a unique opportunity to work directly with developers and maintainers of HDF. The theme of the Workshop is “Embracing New Missions – Integrating Data Across Generations.” The goal of the workshop is to provide a venue for vendors, tool developers, NASA, NOAA, and other HDF and HDF-EOS Earth science users to address the critically important issues of interoperability and integration of data across new and existing missions. Vendors and tool developers will have opportunities to demonstrate their tools and to learn about users’ needs. Participants are encouraged to share ideas, experiences, and concerns regarding data interoperability and integration.

There is a call for abstracts right now. The deadline for abstracts is March 2, 2012.  Please send an email with a few paragraphs describing your topic area to:
Daniel.J.Marinelli@nasa.gov <mailto:Daniel.J.Marinelli@nasa.gov> .  The Suggested Topic Areas are as follows:

• Earth Science data interoperability among data formats adopted by EOS and nonEOS missions
• Ease of access to and usage of NASA HDF and HDF-EOS data
• Tool presentations and demos
• Earth Science data interoperability among  state-of-the-art tools
• Group or private technical discussions with  technical experts and HDF developers
• Integration of HDF with established or up-and-coming technologies
• Enhancing HDF support with existing technologies
• Program status reports
• Development plans -- new features
• Heritage (HDF) to HDF5 migration; archival issues
• HDF and other standards (e.g., netCDF)
• Tools, utilities (description or demonstration)
• Earth science data applications
• Interaction with metadata and application profiles/conventions
• Lessons learned; lessons learned from other disciplines; missing pieces; end-to-end system considerations