Definition

The basic stewardship services, such as the first two levels of tiered data stewardship service defined by NCEI (2014), shown in Figure below, the role of scientific steward becomes essential for achieving or ensuring higher levels of stewardship maturity and service. This is particularly true for functional areas associated with evaluating and monitoring product quality and with improving product usability by providing or promoting the availability of data characteristics, such as spatial and temporal means and their variability, data error sources, and uncertainty estimates.

Peng, G., 2015: A new paradigm for ensuring and improving data quality and usability — Roles and responsibilities of key players and stakeholders.;DOI: 10.1045/may2016-peng

NESDIS Data Management Lexicon and Related Terms 

Category

4. Data Stewardship words