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!