Interagency Data Stewardship/LifeCycle/Preservation Forum/TeleconNotes/2017-10-16meetingnotes

Meeting Notes - Data Stewardship Committee - 2017-10-16 2 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. MST / 11 a.m. PT

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Attendees: Leslie Hsu, Bruce Caron, Heather Brown, Nancy Ritchey, Ruth Duerr, Rama, Matt Mayernik, Sophie Hou, Jamie Collins, Shelley Stall, Denise Hills, Justin Goldstein, Corinna Gries, Bob Downs, Philip Jones

Notes:

1) ESIP Program Committee update / budget request update

2) Quick reminder about nominations for ESIP leadership positions (Sophie H.)

• Nominations for leadership positions are open
• Keep your eye posted on Monday updates, or contact Sophie, or check out the nomination Wiki
• Link to Nomination Wiki: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Nomination_Committee
• Email address for Nomination Committee: Nominations@esipfed.org
• Positions that are looking for nominations: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Nomination_Committee/2018_Nominations_and_Ballot
• Link to Nomination Form: https://goo.gl/forms/xDbsAQf1oHfLyeAZ2

3) Bob Downs presented briefly on events at the recent RDA meeting

• Good session on certification of repositories
• Also, a good session on infrastructure (repository platforms for research data)

• Included presentations by several developers
• Bob reported that slides will soon be posted

4) Invited Presentation: Leslie Hsu, USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI)

• Motivating question: How do you keep momentum and carry forward knowledge and ideas generated at a meeting?
• Recent case study: CDI Workshop

• Have workshop every 2 years; last one this May in Denver
• CDI is much like ESIP: Lots of remote presentations/teleconferences; wide range of experience/background in those represented
• USGS manages but Leslie stresses not strictly a USGS organization; anyone can be a member
• Currently active topics (focus areas) include: Data management (data life cycle), tech stack (joint w/ESIP Tech Dive), open source software development, semantic web, bioinformatics, DevOps
• Current info can be found on the CDI Wiki: https://my.usgs.gov/confluence/display/cdi/Home

• At the latest CDI workshop in May:

• Much like an ESIP meeting (sessions are suggested/introduced/chaired by those interested)
• Theme: "Enabling Integrated Science"
• Four areas of focus: Computing Capacity, Modeling, Data & Integration, Science Data Infrastructure

• For each area, asked same questions:

• Where are we now?
• Where to we want to be?
• How do we get there?

• Meeting began with some keynotes, then transitioned to breakouts

• Charge to breakouts: Return with 3-5 specific suggestions or actions that could be taken to fill the gaps in a specific area

• Outcomes:

• Lots of notes and suggestions

• 40-50 separate recommendations; ~ 10 pilot projects proposed
• Everyone did a great job of translating these notes into well-organized reports

• The challenges:

• Figure out which of the many recommendations/suggestions were most feasible, and which will have the greatest impact for USGS
• Determine how best to translate roadmap into action

• Four critical lessons learned from the experience:

• Relate the suggestion back to the USGS CDI organizational framework and goals (a requirement)
• Publish and share a document

• Puts results/suggestions/ideas into the public forum (working on getting DOIs for these documents)

• Link the ideas to funding opportunities and deadlines
• Recruit champions for the idea/concept

• Be vocal & advocate (Rich Signell's success with push for a mini-series on interactive reproducible notebooks is a good example)

• Some questions/comments:

• Sophie asked whether it has been difficult for individuals who want to be champions to get support

• Leslie:

• Some potential champions have a lot more time/bandwidth to devote to side projects; others do not have the concrete resources to do so
• CDI has been working to communicate the value of these efforts up to USGS leadership and managers, in hopes of providing more opportunities for such people

• Matt asked about the process used to determine which recommendations were most "actionable"/feasible

• Leslie noted that the decision-making process balances potential impact with feasibility

• Bob Downs pointed out that potential champions can be those with common goals or similar projects/interests, so that those who do not have the resources to work specifically on advocating a particular project might be able to advocate for the idea/project generally

5) Update from Rama on ISO standard development

• Rama has been working to establish a PCCS standard through ISO

• Effort grew out of earlier efforts at ESIP, NASA, ESA, CEOSS WGISS etc.

• Draft standard has been released as ISO 19165 and Rama proposed extension as 19165-2
• International effort to establish standard will take 3 years
• Rama will be soliciting comments/feedback from the DS cluster once a more formal draft has been developed

6) ESIP winter meeting ideas

• Deadline for session proposals is end of this month
• Matt: Session on data risk factors: How do we identify/categorize risk factors so data managers/users can figure out which might be most applicable for their environment
• Justin may propose a session on data visualization (if he and colleagues are not at AMS, which is happening concurrently)
• Rama reports some possible Information Quality cluster sessions which may be of interest: A follow-up from the summer meeting; progress update for the NASA data quality working group
• Matt asked whether it would be useful to have another cluster business meeting

• Some attendees felt we might only need to have a single business meeting; Bruce thought summer might work best for purposes of the Federal fiscal year