Interagency Data Stewardship/LifeCycle/Preservation Forum/TeleconNotes/2017-05-15meetingnotes

Meeting Notes - Data Stewardship Committee - 2017-05-15 2 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. MST / 11 a.m. PT

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Attendees: Matt Mayernik, Nancy, Rama, Denise, Ruth, Shannon, Shelley, Robert Groman

Notes:

1) ESIP Program Committee update

• ESIP Figshare portal

  Will be replacing commons?

• Slack

  When should we be using this?

  Recommendations on usage: Official channel?

2) PresQT workshop debrief (Nancy H., Ruth D., Natalie M.)

• http://presqt.crc.nd.edu/index.php/workshops
• Workshop materials: https://osf.io/tejhs/

3) Belmont Forum Data Curriculum workshop debrief (Shelley S., Nancy H., Sophie H.)

• Belmont Forum Digital Skills and Curricula Development Workshop Pre-meeting was held on Thursday April 27, 2017
• Attendees were:

  Fiona Murphy, Belmont

  Vicky Lucas, developed the report

  Rowena Davis, Belmont project coordinator

  Bob Samors, Coordination Officer (CO) for the Forum’s e-Infrastructure and Data Management (eI&DM) Project

  Nancy Hoebelheinrich

  Sophie Hou

• Review of the survey results:

  164 survey responses; see slides below

  Survey report: http://bfe-inf.org/sites/default/files/doc-repository/BF-Skills-Gap_Analysis-2017_0.pdf

• Pre-meeting discussion on what topics should be a focus for the larger meeting. The question posed was:

  "What world cafe topics:

  Programming

  Computational analysis

  Data complexity

  Data standards

  Data discovery

  Data management

• Discussion resulted in focusing on these top three topics as the most important skills to address:

  Discovery

  Complexity

  Workflow (could be an umbrella approach for the full data lifecycle)

• General information in the Belmont Forum e-infrastructure data management project: http://bfe-inf.org
• Example of one of the activities that has been completed: 5 Data Principles

  Data should be:

  Discoverable through catalogues and search engines

  Accessible by default, and made available with minimum time delay

  Understandable in a way that allows researchers—including those outside the discipline of origin—to use them

  Manageable and protected from loss for future use in sustainable, trustworthy repositories

  Professional: the implementation of the above principles requires a highly skilled workforce and broad-based training and education as an integral part of research programs

4) Next steps for Data Rescue document

• Mass media options - might need to be more "opinionated"

  Distinction between opinionated and polarized - media is very polarized. We have strong opinions about the data topics, but they are based on experience, so not “flaming” without knowledge..

• EOS - gets wider audience than just ESSI people
• More reports coming out about data being made inaccessible, even if not deleted.
• Boulder data rescue - several Tb of data, including all EPA data - CKAN instance
• Center for Open Science: working with data conservancy, taking data from "data rescuers" - pushing "rescued" data into repositories
• Science (have to be a member of AAAS for full access) or Nature (open access)

5) Annual Meeting discussion

• DS Committee business meeting organization
• Open call for June telecon

6) Rama:

• ISO 19165-2 NWIP - Geographic information

  Preservation of digital data and metadata

  Part 2: Content specifications for earth observation data and derived digital products

• Will have all IQC related presentations posted at http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/IQ_Presentations

  Michael Diepenbroek's presentation to IQC on May 9, 2017: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-4dbi8De199exAaKnK36Cv1BQ7qu0ggIzPWjIBMfI2Q/edit#slide=id.p3