Preservation and Stewardship

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Welcome to the Data Stewardship Committee
Committee Chair: Ge Peng, Ph.D

ESIP Data Stewardship Committee Vision

Promote excellence in Earth science data stewardship including preservation, information quality, and development of a cadre of excellent data managers for the future

About Us

The ESIP Data Stewardship Committee develops and fosters practices and standards that ensure continued and reliable information content, quality, access to, and usability of Earth system science data for as long as they are deemed to be of value. As such, we facilitate the long-term preservation, stewardship, and access of Earth system science data, assisting ESIP to achieve its strategic goals. In addition to extensive participation on our committee, our members actively serve in many other external organizations which are nationwide and international in scope. As our activity list is extensive, we invite you to participate in the group.

ESIP Data Stewardship Strategic Plan

Recent Outputs from the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee

Peng, G., Söding, E., Shepherd, A., Lehnert, K., Wood-Charlson, E. M., Ritchey, N. A., Jones, M., Abarca, M., Lubkin, S. H., & Data Stewardship Committee. (2026). Advancing Cross-Organizational Interoperability Through Data Stewardship – Early Insights Into Organizational Stewardship Practices on Persistent Identifiers and Rich Metadata (Versions v01r00-20260227). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17990422

Peng, G., Wu, M., Ringuette, R., Blythe, J., Shepherd, A., Söding, E., Wyborn, L., Wood-Charlson, E. M., Ritchey, N., Jones, M., Atkins, N., Abarca, M., Kottmeier, D., Schindler, U., Lubkin, S., & ESIP Data Stewardship Committee. (2026). Advancing Cross-Organizational Interoperability Through Data Stewardship — Machine-Interpretable Crosswalks From Earth Science Organizational Metadata Profiles to Schema.org (Versions v01r00-20260724). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18981936

Events

  • Telecon Instructions:
All meetings are conducted via Zoom (Join through the ESIP Community Calendar: find and register for the Data Stewardship Committee event, and the Zoom meeting link and instruction will be emailed to you).


  • Meeting Agendas and Notes Archive from Previous Years:


Get Involved

All meetings are conducted via Zoom (Join through the ESIP Community Calendar).


  • Monthly Meeting
  • We meet on the second Monday of each month at 3:00pm Eastern. If this date coincides with a federal holiday, any changes will be communicated via email and Slack.


  • Activities/Special Topic Discussion Meeting:
  • We also meet for Activities and Special Topics discussions as necessary.





  • Committee Highlight Slides from ESIP Meetings:

Activities


Previous Activities:

Resources (and Other Stuff)

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