Telecon 05.23.13 materials

Telecon Notes, Resulting Action Items

• Paul, Cheryl will find Decadal Surveys for us to review that are more like what we envision for the DDS
  • not narrowly focused, but broad, distributed, much larger community
• There is now a separate section on the Panel Discussion wiki page to define the questions for the panelists, here: Questions_for_the_Panel.
• The June telecon will be the 3rd Thursday in June, 6/20, and NOT the 4th, 6/27
  • That will be the final telecon before the panel discussion
• Notes by Denise (thank you, Denise!!): Telecon Notes

Working Notes

Panel Discussion Big Picture

(Please chime in!)

Panel goal

• Describe some options for a Data Decadal Survey wrt scope
• identify grand challenges
• Write that up?

Subgoals

• stimulate imagination of potential funders
• determine what a DDS could enable under various options
• determine funder view points

Would it worthwhile to end the panel discussion by inviting input from other ESIP members?

Panelist Invitations

• 4 voters voted
• We have sent an invitation to Dan Baker (LASP, Boulder), are awaiting a response, will ping on Tuesday
• Are asking to move Stan Ahalt (RENCI, a local) from other panel to this panel
• Upon hearing from Dan, will invite Michael Tiemann (Red Hat, a local)
• Carol to chat with Todd Vision (UNC, a local)

Panel Introduction/Motivation

Current Difficulties

• The usual stuff: can't find, insufficient stewardship, etc.

List of current efforts/collaborations

• CODATA, ICSU
• DataONE, NSF
• Big Earth Data Initiative, BEDI, OSTP
• RDA
• ...

List of material regarding reviews already conducted

• list of references

List of trends/challenges/opportunities for the future

• Unstructured vs structured data
• Increasing ubiquity of sensors
• Use of UAVs, drones to collect data
• Varying scales of data: nano, continental, and beyond
• Lack of sufficient decision making support
• Impact of open science, open publishing
• Highly connected world of phones, computers, cars, etc
• Citizen science
• ...

Introduction to a Decadal Survey

• The goal, process

A Data Decadal Survey

• What it might be
  • Data lifecycle model
  • We are here now to discuss scope
• How this is different from most other Decadal Surveys
  • Most canvas entire smaller community, result in few large missions/facilities/research initiatives
  • Here, we can't canvas entire community, is more distributed, small scale, PI driven, commercial and noncommercial