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!