Interagency Data Stewardship/LifeCycle/Preservation Forum/TeleconNotes/2017-04-17meetingnotes

Meeting Notes - Data Stewardship Committee - 2017-04-17 2 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. MST / 11 a.m. PT

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Attendees: Matt Mayernik, Sophie Hou, Shelley Stall, Ruth Duerr, Rama, Bruce Caron, Paul Lemieux, Jamie Collins, Heather Brown, Nancy Hoebelheinrich, David Moroni, Mark Parsons, Bob Downs, Shannon Leslie

Notes:

1) ESIP Program Committee update

• Main agenda item has been preparing for all hands Summer Meeting
• Also: Travel support is available to support speakers for the meeting (although deadline has already passed for the 2017 meeting in Bloomington)

2) Conference reports

• 2017 RDA Plenary

• Ruth: Attended virtually; included session for new group (Preservation Tools, Techniques, and Policies Interest Group - https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/preservation-tools-techniques-and-policies)

• Objective: Gathering & aggregating list of repository software
• Ultimately: Produce a registry of tools

• Rama: Whatever comes of it will be of interest to our committee; hopefully some of us can provide input (see web link)
• Matt heard from attendees that our Data Rescue document was a hot topic at the meeting
• Rama: Invited speaker (Michael Diepenbroek, co-chair of RDA’s "Fitness for use" WG) at upcoming Information Quality Cluster telecon (Tuesday May 9, 11 AM EDT) will be talking about some RDA-related topics; might be of interest to DS cluster folks

• EGU 2017: At least one person (Mark Parsons) plans to attend
• Sophie: Reports that she, Nancy and Shelley have been invited to a meeting hosted by Belmont Forum to discuss how to develop training/education for data-related skills

• Other members from the Data Stewardship Committee might also have been invited.

3) Data Management Training - Working Group Proposal

• Discussion

• Nancy:

• Thanked everyone for support of the initiative. Will add comments she received from Rama and others to the scoping document.
• The new status (if approved) will make it easier to obtain funding for projects such as improvements to the DMT Clearinghouse (via hiring of a Drupal engineer)
• Only real potential downside: The more formal Working Group status will commit the participants to a specific (two year) time frame for project completion

• Bruce: Budgets for WGs go through their parent committees
• Some funding discussion ensued; Nancy described some previous/current DMT activities
• Sophie: We really have two project needs: (1) Technical maintenance/development of the Clearinghouse Drupal infrastructure, and (2) development of new training content for the Clearinghouse

• The WG status might help provide a pipeline for funding of (1), while (2) will be a more involved, ongoing task

• Vote on proposal

• Matt solicited any objections to the proposal; none were heard
• Nancy moved to make the DMT Working Group a formal Working Group of the DS Committee in accordance with the statement of work document
• Rama seconded the move
• A voice vote was conducted; the proposal passed unanimously by a voice vote of those present on the call!

4) Summer meeting submissions

• Matt: Submitted two sessions:

• DS business meeting

• Business meeting session will focus on implementing some of the ideas in the Strategic Plan

• Session for discussion/brainstorming on Data Rescue

• Sophie:

• Proposed a panel that will review various trust repository implementations
• Also (with Usability), another session focusing on the RMap tool
• Usability Cluster will also hold a “workathon” on how to solicit users for evaluation, how to design tasks, etc

• DMT Clearinghouse will be presented as a use case

• Rama: Two sessions from Information Quality Cluster, focus will be on how uncertainty is characterized, conveyed, and presented for various data products; will have a plenary with invited speakers and a break-out discussion session
• Ruth: Two sessions

• Reprise of session from last meeting, which aims to connect researchers with various tools - have picked a set of 6 new ones and is working on ensuring they can attend
• Ruth is now an Al Gore-certified Climate Reality Leader!

• Will have a workshop/session showcasing some tools for teachers & educators

• Shelley: Will co-convene a panel session with Karl Benedict on institutional support (or lack thereof) for data management and warehousing required by research grants
• Bruce: DS cluster needs to update our poster for the summer meeting; due by COB 26 June (Jamie will take lead on this)

5) ESIP/data center response to "data rescue" project

• Has been published as a blog entry: http://esipfed.org/press-releases/stronger-together

• Matt thanked Bruce for assistance in getting the document posted on the ESIP blog

• Feedback/reactions

• Rama: Nice article. Could consider publishing as an Opinion piece on AGU's Eos
• AltMetrics
• Matt:

• Was on a call with EDGI members (EDGI has been organizing some of the data rescue initiatives which have been in the news recently); said having the document (and all the expertise embodied therein) to reference during the call was excellent
• Also, the feedback (mentioned earlier in call) from RDA
• May 8-9: There will be an invite-only data rescue event in DC; get in touch with Matt if interested & he will forward names to the organizers

• Ruth reports that the Data Conservancy (an ESIP member) will be well represented
• Boulder data rescue focus will be on really old NASA data but other communities are interested in other data

• Some good (and spirited) discussion on whether we ought to try publishing the document elsewhere (EOS? a more mainstream publication?)