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Communicating Scientific Buzz with GeoRSS

Communicating Scientific Buzz with GeoRSS. Lisa Ballagh and Florence Fetterer. Introduction. RSS overview Importance of GeoRSS New GeoRSS feed at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) GeoRSS and Virtual Globes Summary. Headline News from Various Sources.

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Communicating Scientific Buzz with GeoRSS

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  1. Communicating Scientific Buzz with GeoRSS Lisa Ballagh and Florence Fetterer

  2. Introduction • RSS overview • Importance of GeoRSS • New GeoRSS feed at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) • GeoRSS and Virtual Globes • Summary Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  3. Headline News from Various Sources Will Warming Lead to a Rise in Hurricanes? -New York Times June 2007: Nordic Seas ice edge data set released, 1750-2002 -NOAA@NSIDC GeoRSS feed 3D charting: Google Earth or Second Life? -Ogle Earth Perspectives on the Arctic's Shrinking Sea-Ice Cover -Science Magazine Possible “LOST” Island Locations in Google Earth -Google Earth Blog Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  4. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) overview RSS Feeds Organize Content NOAA at NSIDC feed Science Magazine RSS Reader Google Reader New York Times Ogle Earth blog Google Earth blog Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  5. Introduction to GeoRSS GeoRSS: • Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds (GeoRSS) • Extension of RSS • Adds a geographical component • View content in 2-D via a GeoRSS aggregator • GeoRSS home page: http://www.georss.org Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  6. Introduction to GeoRSS Same structure as RSS: GeoRSS feed and GeoRSS aggregator Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  7. NOAA@NSIDC overview • Manage over 60 data sets • Publish data sets each year with an emphasis on in situ data, data rescue, and data sets from operational communities such as the U.S. Navy • Help develop educational pages and contribute to larger NSIDC projects • Web site: http://nsidc.org/noaa/ Sea Ice Index for April 2007 Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  8. NOAA@NSIDC GeoRSS Feed • New GeoRSS feed as of June of 2007 • Content available via our GeoRSS feed • New data sets • Major updates to data sets • NOAA@NSIDC participation in conferences Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  9. NOAA@NSIDC GeoRSS Feed March through August Ice Edge Positions in the Nordic Seas, 1750-2002 http://nsidc.org/data/g02169.html New data set (June 2007) Temporal coverage: 1750-2002 Parameter: sea ice edge Geographic area: Nordic Seas Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  10. NOAA@NSIDC GeoRSS Feed Film released (April 2007) Good Days on the Trail, 1938-1942: Film Footage of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado http://nsidc.org/data/g02175.html Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  11. NOAA@NSIDC Updates Coming Soon… • Updates to the Online Glacier Photograph Database • +1,200 photographs of Greenland glaciers from the 1960s and 1970s • Photograph collection by Brad Washburn • Since the online collection was introduced in 2002, the database has had over 50,000 unique viewers. Photograph by Brad Washburn, 1938 (Barnard Glacier, AK) Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  12. NOAA@NSIDC GeoRSS Feed Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  13. NOAA@NSIDC GeoRSS Feed Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  14. NOAA@NSIDC GeoRSS Feed Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  15. NOAA@NSIDC GeoRSS Feed • NOAA@NSIDC home page: • http://nsidc.org/noaa/ • GeoRSS Web site at NSIDC: • http://nsidc.org/news/nsidc_rss.html • NOAA@NSIDC GeoRSS Feed: • http://nsidc.org/noaa/nsidc_georss.xml Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  16. GeoRSS and virtual globes • Select the scientific news sources of interest • eg. The IPY home page has GeoRSS feeds: http://classic.ipy.org/start/index.php/site/news-rss/ • View information via GeoRSS aggregators, RSS readers or a virtual globe • Use virtual globes to review news content Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

  17. Summary • New GeoRSS feed for NOAA@NSIDC program • Disseminate news items in an efficient manner • Add geographic context to news items • Please send us your feedback • Lisa Ballagh: vtlisa@nsidc.org • NSIDC User Services: nsidc@nsidc.org Image courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard, Kjaer Glacier, Greenland (soon to be part of the Online Glacier Photograph Database) Fifth International Symposium on Digital Earth

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