External Relations

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Subgroup Members:

• Chris Lenhardt
• Stefan Falke

Issues to Be Addressed:

• Interfacing with other organizations – national & international (AGU, EGY, GEO, CEOS, ISRSE, others?) – how do we support our efforts in this? ESIP ambassadors; distinctions between wearing multiple hats; collaborations

• Map relationships across organizations; what’s the landscape (concept map development tool)

• Training for and Engagement of Next Generation of Data Managers – academic discipline; stewardship
• Tentative List of Organizations and Type
  • AGU - Professional
  • EGY - Scientific/Data Stewardship
  • GEO - Applications/Decision Support
  • CEOS - Scientific
  • ISRSE -
  • WDCs - Data Stewardship
  • CODATA - Science Policy/Data Stewardship
  • ICSU/IGBP - Scientific
  • ISPRS - Professional
  • UN-GRID - Scientific/Applications/Decision Support

Discussion:

• Should we interface? Yes! The listed group represents a good start. But, these should not be the universe - where are the smaller, lesser known organizations (e.g. less formally structured groups like the EPA Data Summit; domain experts)

• How to handle overlap among different groups? Connections are important to make & are being loosely made. CEOS wanted to make connections to Sensor Web and GEO. CEOS formed an Atmospheric Science Interest Group to make connections among/between groups.

• GEOSS Air Quality Community of Practice - is the ESIP Federation limited as a domestic organization? or can we/should we play internationally?

• ESSI focus groups at AGU, EGU

• ESIP is uniquely positioned at intersection of science and technology

• Should Data Management be its own academic discipline?

• Integration of data management principles across academic disciplines is probably the way to go (e.g. like GIS)

• How should data managers think? how does this relate to collaboration? need to look at the reward mechanisms for creating data sets

• Should ESIP provide continuing education/professional development to data managers? (e.g. look at UCGIS [1]

• Will the types of outreach differ based on the type of organization, e.g. professional organization v. scientific/research v. applications/decision-support?

• Are the goals of external relations clear?
  • Recruit new members?
  • Promote scientific data stewardship?
  • Facilitate data mash-ups, application development?
  • Promote networking?

Recommendations:

• Test waters with other organizations - international and domestic
  • Need to Identify/Map Organizations Where ESIP Partners are Active - Social Networking Software/concept mapping tool
• Explore what the ESIP Federation might do to train/provide continuing education to data managers.