Created for NASA's Space Apps Challenge (2015).
Website: https://2015.spaceappschallenge.org/challenge/data-treasure-hunting/
// MESSAGE POSTED IN NASA STARTER KIT
// Posted by Alon Peled, Harvard University
Dear NASA Data Treasure Hunt Participant,
What methodology, technique, or system would you develop to help NASA discover new keywords (not only in the Space domain!) that will help NASA make its information assets become more easily accessible to the citizens of the world?
Remember: we ask you to provide us with both the new keywords for some or all of the 71 datasets whose metadata is listed under the 'metadata' worksheet in this workbook but we also ask you to explain and demonstrate the software or solution you developed to discover these new keywords!
Good luck!
Under the "metadata" spreadsheet in this Excel workbook, you will find the data.json or ckan descriptions of 71 datasets that NASA released and that other governmental agencies worldwide have released on Open Government Data (GOD) portals.
You will see immediately why this 'data treasure hunt' challenge is so tough:--the hard-working and good public officials that publish these datasets have neither the time, resources, or expertise to develop good metadata that will make these datasets become more easily accessible and discoverable on the web for citizens and entrepreneurs working to solve data-driven non-space problems.