Organizers:
Robert W. Clayton, Caltech
Vikki Appel, Caltech/SCEDC

The Southern California Earthquake Data Center (SCEDC) is hosting a town-hall meeting to bring together Data Center users to discuss improving our service to the SCEC community. The SCEDC is interested in users' feedback and this meeting is held to solicit input from scientific and engineering users to help establish and prioritize our Data Center goals. We are interested in knowing what products are needed to further your research objectives and what modifications should be made to our current services to increase your productivity.

At last year's meeting, we heard from users that "the Data Center should provide standard access interfaces to its data and produce and maintain station metadata in a standard format." We responded by implementing the IRIS products SeismiQuery, NetDC and the Data Handling Interface (DHI) and producing station metadata in the form of dataless SEED volumes for the present configuration of all currently-active SCSN broadband stations. We really appreciated the turnout last year and we hope this year's meeting will stimulate even more improvements at the SCEDC. This meeting will be an excellent opportunity to voice your opinions about our direction.

The meeting is open to all members of the SCEC community. If you have a specific issue you would like to see on the agenda, email Vikki Appel at vikki@gps.caltech.edu.