Interagency Data Stewardship/Principles
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
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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 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.)
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- Data creators
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- Data Intermediaries (i.e., repositories, value-added providers, etc.)
- Why?