Sustainable Data Management/20160720 ESIP summer mtg

ESIP summer meeting

Agenda[edit | edit source]

Speakers, from 3 points of view (<10 min each):

Also to discuss, Shelley Stall's visualization at ...link...

For each talk and following, we are discussing the following questions.

How open are each of these repositories to new or outside data?
What will it take so can we get more data in repositories?
How to guide people to the right repository?
Additional fields to add to the registry to help? E.g. Certifications. (http://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:1397899:6/component/escidoc:1398549/re3data_schema_documentation_v3_0.pdf)
Any obvious gaps in services that we know of?

send out reminder to update the registry record regularly
promote the business card standard
work to standardize the APIs that journals use to communicate with repositories
consider opening up correction process to anybody with confirmation by recordholder
note that some metadata about a repository may live in different registries (e.g. COPDESS doesn't have info about technical services but Council for Data Federation might and so does DataONE -- so registries should ensure linkage across the relevant records
work with Shelley to improve the currency of the data in re3data
make sure that the fields we would need for the services

take an active role in bringing COPDESS messages to your institution
create a standards compliant business card
use re3data as the authoritative source
validate your record in COPDESS (where you can own your record)
adopt an existing API rather than developing one of your own
use loose coupling so submission or authentication systems or other subsystems could be used across groups
start with small steps to participate in an aggregated network, incrementally improve
leverage added value from aggregators for things like data citation

develop a set of questions to help narrow the list of options based on Margaret's questions
hope for consolidation to streamline the options in the longer term
help registries to track the right kind of info

will need to get metadata from re3data & COPDESS and CDF (sounds like they are just starting to develop their registry which may have technical info)
List the predominant standards eg APIs, ORCID, etc.
help to comment on Erin's and Shelley's flower diagram to make it better for understanding roles and their touchpoints
look for opportunities to streamline the landscape and fulfill the needs of different perspectives
summarize surveys about measuring these outcomes and the gaps (work with the ROI group
Shelley's graphic: could use libraries and business venn bubbles.
consider the collective approach -- sustain the network of landscape of repositories

concern that lots of funding goes to developing bells and whistles (map viewers, authentication systems) and not to new added value
try to minimize overlaps
ensure that investment really increases the amount of data available and the ability to access it no matter what repository
streamline the following for economy of scale:
- data quality
- authentication
- standards for metadata exchange & web services
- author identifiers
- helpdesk support (see ScienceGateways.org set up to help set up computational gateways and web-based resource <--nancy wilkins-deer)
- data preservation (connect with the data stewardship group)
- citation
- compliance mechanisms
- search interfaces
- ROI framework
- business models
- A common place to communicate (this cluster) including stories of how people are using data