Theme: Informatics for Models Used in Climate, Environment and Health

Question for Discussion:

What information about models would make it easier for a larger community to apply them and to evaluate them? Focus on models used in climate, environment and health. Consider 

• intended use 
• input data requirements
• model output

This forum draws upon growing interest in disseminating computational models in digital libraries. The aim is to establish an effective mechanism for "publishing" such models.

Hill, Crosier, Smith and Goodchild have published a content standard for computational models as part of the development of the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype at the University of California, Santa Barbara. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june01/hill/06hill.html

NASA's Global Change Master Directory has some information on models in its set of earth science data tools and services. http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/services

The U.S. National Biological Information Infrastructure has related needs on the bioinformatics of biocomplexity. http://www.nbii.org

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