Data Management Training/meeting notes 20150202

Data Management Training - cross domain collaboration 2 February 2015

Agenda:

Attending: Ruth Duerr, Amanda Whitmire, Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Jacob Carlson, Sophie Hou, Justin Goldstein

Regrets: Erin Robinson, Denise Hills

Notes:

New coalition of publishers; have NSF funding for a data training catalog for the Earth Sciences, called the Coalition on Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Science (COPDESS, http://www.copdess.org/)
Several of us are involved in Research Data Management (RDM) education efforts. Action: let's all share our materials and look for gaps, confluence, areas for collaboration and development, etc.

Amanda: http://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/grad521syllabus
Ruth: has a syllabus from the course for credit that she teaches at UIUC on Data Curation; (shared via email) - will also be placed on the esip Data stewardship wiki page
ESIP Modules: http://commons.esipfed.org/datamanagementshortcourse
Jake/Data Information Literacy: http://datainfolit.org

the DIL project case studies will be posted at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dilcs/ hopefully very soon
Looking especially to build a community of practice around those providing data information literacy training
Would be useful to develop a framework for existing and continued development of educational materials related to data literacy and data management training; perhaps as the basis of an NSF grant

Ruth notes that there is funding available from Earth Cube for data management training

specific program: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=504780&ods_key=nsf13529
We'll all look this over & send via email ideas about how we could collaborate and possibly get some funding for what we want to do (TBD)
Despite the fact that this solicitation is focused on Earth Science data, might be possible to bring out the foundational, cross-domain aspects of data literacy, data management, and data stewardship as part of what is created from a collaboration such as this

Discussed the idea of soliciting feedback on existing modules in order to ascertain their effectiveness, but also to identify gaps, and possibly find authors for other training modules or curriculae
Might also be useful to invite Kerstin Lenhardt to a call to find out what they're planning to do for the NSF funded catalog and other products coming from the NSF for COPDESS (see above link)

They are also planning to build a repository of educational resources using the RE3 schema underlying it, and then for Course materials, build their own schema
They are working with the Open Science.org folks, so might be more information there http://www.openscience.org/blog/ (NH couldn't find anything , but maybe it's there somewhere?

Action Items:

All: Look at the EarthCube solicitation proposal and put comments / thoughts about how we could write or participate in a proposal on data management on a TBD ESIP Data Stewardship wiki page
NH to work with Erin, Sophie and Justin to figure out the best place to put this info
NH: Set up doodle poll for meeting in 2 wks on a possible Earth Cube proposal (Jake will not be able to attend, but will participate in the online discussions.

From mtg in July:

Next Steps:

Ideas for potential collaborative work on: surveys, analytics, community building
Evaluation metrics & process previously supported by NSF: CLEAN http://cleanet.org/clean/literacy/index.html
Directory of resources for librarians: http://esciencelibrary.umassmed.edu/DIL_Home
(All) Look at each others resources as noted above (please add more as they occur to you)
(All) Think about further areas of collaboration & get back together in ~ a month when (perhaps) Amanda will be able to join, and Erin.