Winter 2011 Meeting

Planning for the Winter 2011 Meeting

Jan 4-6, 2011, Washington, DC

Venue

Dupont Renaissance Hotel Meeting Capacity

5 Breakout rooms

Theme Ideas

• Making Data Matter: Maximizing/Measuring/Evaluating/Harnessing the Value/Power/Impact of Data and Information
• Making Data Matter: Adding Value through Collaboration
• Defining Success for Earth Science Impacts: How to Provide Results for a Sustainable World

Possible Speakers

• Ann Doucette, The Evaluators Institute
• OMB (Shelley Metzenbaum)
• Bob Donahue, WGBH & NSDL Community Member on webmetrics [1]
• Perspectives Panel from the Agencies
• Rep. from The Hill?
• Mary Kicza
• Bibliometrics person
• Foundation (MacArthur, Pew, [jesse Asubel from Sloan?]
• Google analytics person
• Heidi Cullen, Climate Central

Potential Breakouts

• Challenges in managing Earth Science Data and Information (data volume, data quality, data access/search, data dissemination, data analysis in distributed environment and multiple data sources,...)
• Existing technologies and needed technologies that address these challenges (cloud storage, cloud computing, distributed architecture, information architecture, immersive visualization, mobil apps..)
• Climate Change Education panel breakout. Public or perish.
• How the Federation can help promote member products and services.

Topics

• Emerging Evaluation Technologies
• Converting Google Analytics Into Reportable Information
• NSF evaluation needs/techniques
• Associated Topics - Communicating Your Success (Telling the Story of Success), Valuing (in economic terms) Your Success, Measuring Progress (as opposed to only measuring outcomes, outputs), Evaluation for Decision Making. How to actually get broader impacts for your research, and how to measure these when you get them.

Issues for Consideration

• Juried Posters

• Criteria for Judging?

• Innovation of Project
• Collaboration/Community
• How it fits within ESIP Federation
• Relate back to theme of meeting

• Reward

• newsletter/ESIP Website
• presentation at ESIP session/travel support (e.g. $500 stipend) toward a professional meeting (AGU)

• Meeting Proceedings

• micro articles

Visioneer recommendations

2 prizes: the community choice prize is voted by people in the room (each person gets a vote marker), and is guided by the notion of "most Federation collaboration" visible. The theme award is for the poster that best fits the meeting theme (again by popular vote). Type reps break ties. Suggested prizes: newsletter recognition, Amazon gift card, etc. to be determined by staff...