Interagency Data Stewardship/Principles

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Reference Materials

• CODATA's review of existing data policies
• IPY Data Policy
• GEO Implementation Guidelines for the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles
• Mark Parson's paper on Geographic Data Sharing
• Excerpts from NASA's Retention Schedules (NPR1441_1D) that are relevant to data policies and principles at NASA.
• NASA's Earth Science Data and Information Policy.
• NASA's A-Train Data Policy
• NOAA Administrative Order 212-15: Management of Environmental and Geospatial Data and Information
• Link to ESA's Second Data Policy Workshop presentations

Draft Outline of Statement

• Statement of data stewardship principles and recommended practices
  • Why?
    • ESIP wants to be a leader in promoting collection, stewardship, and use of Earth science data - from Vision statement
    • ESIP is to "reduce barriers between data providers and data users" - Goal 1 of strategic plan
    • ESIP is to promote use of technical standards and best practices for data management, stewardship, and application development - Goal 2 of strategic plan
  • Principles for Data users
    • Credit
    • Invite collaboration
    • Responsible use
    • Awareness of caveats or limitations of the data
    • Duty to ask
  • Principles for Data Providers
    • Data Intermediaries (i.e., repositories, value-added providers, etc.)
      • ??
    • Data creators
      • ??