Big Projects, Diverse Users, and Usable Data: Lessons and Examples from NARCCAP

Impacts users occupy a middle ground. Providing them with effective support requires making relevant data easily accessible. One approach that greatly furthers that goal is to prioritize data processing according to the utility of the end product, so that the most used data becomes available soonest. This has the added benefit of getting data out and into the hands of users, who will perform a more thorough testing and inspection of the data than the modelers and publishers can, before the entire data stream has been processed, allowing corrections to be folded into the archiving process.