View source for Action Items from Tempe Nov 2015 workshop

'''The following lists are action items developed by the interest groups developed at the Tempe Nov 2015 workshop.''' 

== Landscape Analysis and Gaps for Environmental Data Repositories ==

Action Items:
* Connect COPDESS to Re3Data (KL will communicate with COS and re3data.org to generate a process how repositories can fill in information most efficiently (3 scenarios): create new entries, edit existing entries in re3data; align entries in re3data and COPDESS)
* Ensure all repositories at workshop have entries in Re3data.org that are up to date and accurate
* Define what the landscape encompasses other than data repositories. What tools, services, workflows, institutions, organizations, federations, etc. that connect them, as first attempt to identify overlaps and gaps
* Create a template or form that can be sent out to ESIP/CDF mailing list that will ask participants for feedback - maybe start w/ repositories first, to determine what networks they are a member of, and the nature of the connection - and plug this information into Synergy
* At ESIP - set up station where meeting participants can provide feedback
* Webinar series on integrative activities 
* Compile information about ongoing federations, collaborations, or interoperable networks of repositories
* Beginning w/ networks of repositories identify their components 
* To be reported out during Winter ESIP CDF meeting 
* Talk to Ilya Semin (Datanyze) about his visualization tool (KL, CC)

LINK: [[http://bit.ly/env-repo-landscape]]

== Return on Investment ROI ==

Action Items: 
* Review JISC proposal to understand what is covered and how we can use (All)
* Quantitative and qualitative methods of study for applicability
* Discuss & summarize at ESIP Winter mtg
* What methods are generic across the 3 data centers?
* Look at supplementary papers for info about costs, and other details of doing the studies
* Ruth will contact Josh Greenberg at Sloane re the funding of a planning grant to do a similar study 
* Anne will talk with Peter very informally about the possibility of an EAGER grant for planning and also look at the formal solicitation and report back at ESIP
* In the planning grant, Include a literature / environment scan to see what has been already done in this area 
* Ruth to disseminate lecture info on this topic to group
* Talk with Erin about setting up a cluster on this topic (Nancy)
* Investigate bringing issue to RDA (Ruth talk to Mark Parsons)
* Develop a 1 - 2 page statement about goals, (timeline) for the overall plan, i..e, the outcome of the longer term goal (At ESIP Winter) based on discussions from yesterday (see above) (TBD)
* Define what we mean by ROI for this area
* Anne to ask Matt Jones for relevant material    DONE

LINK: [[http://bit.ly/1HZa3ci]]

== Common Technical Vision ==

Action Items
* Strengthen a technical community discussion of repository sustainability and interoperability features (inject DataONE Member node forum into ESIP cluster discussion --both Jan and July meetings)
* entrain CDF as well
* start by writing a cluster paragraph with Erin’s input -- Matt & Cyndy -- Dec 15 (make sure there is remote participation)
* Articulate the objectives to be achieved via a federated approach (e.g., sustainability, interoperability, etc) (related to the ROI) (at Jan ESIP meeting 4-8 Jan)
* For example, catalog interoperability
* Compile use case listing articulating shared vision of technical sustainability and interoperability across repositories on shared space (Github please)
* Start with compiling list of use case links for existing work (Matt, …)
* Review these at Jan meeting, discuss process for expansion/edit/improvements
* Articulate a high level conceptual framework (concept of operations) to satisfy the use cases -- 
* Compile list of existing frameworks -- May 30 (Cyndy will coordinate)
* Draft presented at July ESIP meeting --  decide who leads in January ESIP meeting (might be DataOne folks depending on the site review dates)
* Identify the services / infrastructure essential for implementing the conceptual framework and determine the cost of providing such (community wide) services (conceptual equivalent of DNS for internet).
* Compile existing lists
* Discuss this July ESIP
* Assign responsibility in January
* Develop best practices for developers that include *good* validation tools and shared conventions and proposed changes in standards
* Compile existing
* Refine based on other work
* Timing -- sometime in the future
* Discuss with Peter and EAGER time about write a proposal to further support the design process (planning grant) (Mark Servilla) (by the end of this year)
* E.g. A month of funding each for 12 people, designated person (e.g. environmental sciences masters or recent graduate) to facilitate the process
* supplement to EAGER award or some other award
* ESIP fellows just got awarded, Erin will check to see if there’s an option to get another ($2000 + travel). We want quite a bit more.

LINK: [[http://bit.ly/1HH5Yz7]]

Return to main page: [[Collaborative Strategies for Sustained Environmental Data Management: Agenda & Notes (Tempe, AZ Nov 2015)]]