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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">thanks for sharing this,
Suchith!<br>
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While the report overall makes a very good impression it violates
the principles of both open + science in at least one place, the
one I checked: datacubes, for my personal curiosity. What I find
is that only one tool, ODC, gets described, leaving the impression
to the innocent reader that this is the only technology
relevant/existing.<br>
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Why this is problematic:<br>
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- Science: </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Science is all about
reproducibility. </font>A scientific report would reflect on
the state of the art; for example, in the RDA report [1] 19 tools
have been investigated, and meantime for sure there are more.
Further, objective criteria would get established along which the
tools would get assessed. Science requires (i) listing tools and
(ii) assessing them for adequate criteria, such as power,
performance, standards adherence, etc. Hard work? Yes, of course,
who said science is one lazy afternoon's work? The RDA report took
over 1.5 years to compile, devise and run benchmarks, etc. <br>
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- Open: would require that the collection process is documented,
the community at large can contribute before publishing. I could
not find any earlier invitation to contribute on the topics of
datacubes. Bottom line, the procedure is all but open and
transparent.<br>
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Bottom line, this report is in contrast to openness, transparency,
and good science, it rather represents subliminal advertisement
for a single tool lobbied. </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">That the
name of the UN is (mis)used here makes it even more problematic.<br>
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</font>Not a shining example for the principles this community is
striving for.<br>
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Disappointedly,<br>
Peter<br>
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[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://rd-alliance.org/system/files/Array-Databases_final-report.pdf">https://rd-alliance.org/system/files/Array-Databases_final-report.pdf</a><br>
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interest. I wish to thank all colleagues who
contribute to open education and open geospatial
science [1] for bridging the geospatial digital
divide. [2],[3],[4]</span></p>
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