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MST1.8
The international workshop on MST radar is held about every 2-3 years, and is a
major event gathering together experts from all over the world, engaged in research
and development of radar techniques to study the mesosphere, stratosphere and tro-
posphere (MST). It was additionally attended by young scientists, research students
and also new entrants to the field to facilitate close interactions with the experts on
all technical and scientific aspects of MST radar techniques. It is this aspect which
makes the proceedings an ideal resource for future users who are new to the field.
Permanent access to these proceedings is again at risk. The MST 10 proceedings
are available for download from the internet
http://jro.igp.gob.pe/mst10/
and from
the British Library. Proceedings 3, 5-10 are also available from the British library,
meeting 4 is only available from the Library of Congress and unfortunately the
proceedings from meetings 1 and 2 have not been deposited in either institution.
A number of strategies present themselves. Copies of proceedings 1, 2 and 4
could be obtained from the still active community, digitised and incorporated into
the AIP. The proceedings which are currently held by the British Library can be
obtained, digitised and incorporated into the AIP or alternatively the XML MARC
record can be obtained and incorporated into the AIP as a reference as there is a
high to degree of confidence in the permanence of these holdings.
MST1.9 The project scientist has again been quite diligent in keeping minutes
of the user group meetings which are run for data-using scientists several times a
year. As result this information is easily captured. It currently resides in the NCAS
CEDA repository which provides easy access to current data users however there
are no guarantees that this repository will persist in the longer term so a simple ref-
erence in the form of URL would not be considered to be sufficient to guarantee
permanent access to this material. This leaves two strategies open to the archive.
The first involves taking a copy of this material and including it physically within
the AIP. The second involves orchestration where the CEDA repository would be
required to alert the custodians of the MST data to the demise of the repository or
migration of this material, so it may be obtained for direct inclusion in the AIP.
We created reference to the MST user group minutes held in the newly created
CEDA institutional repository for the Nation Centre for Atmospheric studies
http://
cedadocs.badc.rl.ac.uk/
. We registered the demise of this repository as a risk to
monitored and recommended the development of an orchestration strategy for mate-
rial held. This repository as it is representative of a proliferation of repositories in
academia whose longevity is not guaranteed.
19.5.2.2 Quality Assurance and Testing of MST Complex Solution
MST 2.5 Bibliography content supplied and validated by the project scientist
MST 2.5.1 MARC21 specification standard validated by library of congress
MST 2.5.1 XML specification validated by W3C
MST 2.5.1.1 & 2.5.2.1 PDF ISO standard
Inputs needed for the creation of the AIP are illustrated in Fig.
19.8
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