Data Partners

Overview

Data Partners provide the ECHO community with metadata representing their Earth Science data holdings. Client applications have access to data holdings via order distribution or online access. Data Partners retain complete control over what metadata is represented in ECHO including inserting new metadata, modifying existing metadata and removing old metadata. Data Partners may also establish data access restrictions to control the availability of sensitive data holdings.

The information contained within the Data Partners section of this website is organized to support the efforts of new and current ECHO Data Partners. For a complete list of current ECHO Data Partners, click here.

Data Partner Responsibilities

Data partners are responsible for:

• Regularly generating XML metadata according to the ECHO format.   more...
• Monitoring the ingest of submitted metadata to ensure ECHO holdings are current with each provider's holdings.   more...
• Managing accessibility to data with rules, conditions, permissions, and restrictions based on the data and/or the user community.   more...
• Fulfilling orders by rejecting, accepting, canceling, and closing orders and quote requests.   more...
• Providing customer support services in cooperation with the ECHO Operations team to resolve user community problems.

Reference Materials

The following links and documentation provide quick access to the most commonly used reference materials by ECHO Data Partners.

• ECHO Data Partner User's Guide - (PDF)