HR: 1340h
AN: IN23B-1220    [Abstracts]
TI: Earth Science Software Reuse Enablement Systems
AU: * Marshall, J J
EM: James.Marshall@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Mailstop 614.5, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Delnore, V
EM: v.e.delnore@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Langley Research Center, NASA Langley Research Center Mailstop 401B, Hampton, VA 23681 United States
AU: Downs, R
EM: rdowns@ciesin.columbia.edu
AF: Columbia University, 202 Geoscience Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Gerard, R
EM: ryan.gerard@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Mailstop 614.5, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Olding, S
EM: solding@everware.com
AF: Everware, 2750 Prosperity Ave. Suite 210, Fairfax, VA 22031 United States
AU: Samadi, S
EM: shahin.samadi@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Mailstop 614.5, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Wolfe, R
EM: robert.e.wolfe@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Mailstop 614.5, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Casey, N
EM: nancy.casey@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Science Systems and Applications, Inc (SSAI), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Mailstop 610.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Falke, S
EM: stefan@me.wustl.edu
AF: Washington University in St. Louis, Campus Box 1180 One Brookings Drive 63130, St. Louis, MO 63130 United States
AB: An important part of promoting software reuse is to ensure that reusable software assets are readily available to the software developers who want to use them. This can be done by placing the assets into a software catalog or repository system. The NASA Earth Science Software Reuse Working Group has worked with the Earth science community and has discovered the lack of a centralized software repository whose major role is to provide reusable Earth science software assets. Through continued dialogue with the community, we have identified several major success criteria for an effective software repository. In light of these criteria, we examined the capabilities of NASA and non-NASA software catalogs and repositories. The shortcomings of the existing systems include the following: they do not meet enough of the critical functional criteria, they do not focus on the Earth science domain, they do not target software developers as their primary audience, and they do not provide the types of assets that are most useful to software developers. This poster summarizes the results of our study.
DE: 9800 GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005