Data Management Training/meeting notes 20150924

Meeting Agenda - Data Management Training - 2015-09-24 9:30am PDT

Telecon: 1-877-668-4493 Access Code: 23138372

Attendees: Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Amber Budden, JC Nelson, John Faundeen, Tamar Norkin, Shelley Knuth, Sophie Hou.

Agenda and Notes:

Discussion of ideas for a clearinghouse & how we could / should approach for purposes of this proposal based on ideas outlined on the google doc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q1CLrJQc6q7MNQSGsFh-JNYPODrq5JdQTk7rIvTQl9g/edit

Sophie suggested two options to demonstrate the capabilities of the clearinghouse: pick one topic and implement all the aspects of this topic in detail or show the overall structure of the clearinghouse and how it builds on the current effort.
JC suggested that we could build the clearinghouse based on the USGS Science Data Lifecycle (page 2 of this document - http://www.usgs.gov/cdi/cdi-ssf/cdi-ssf-components.pdf).

John supported JC’s suggestion and mentioned that the timing of the clearinghouse would be really helpful to the USGS’ data management effort.
Shelley also agreed that JC’s suggestion would be useful, especially in engaging the broader community who might want to participate in/contribute to the clearinghouse.
Nancy shared that Erin suggested using the “Open Science Framework” (https://osf.io/) for the clearinghouse project.

Amber will send out a DataONE webinar that will help in reviewing the “Open Science Framework” (the webinar will be on October 13).

The domain focus for the clearinghouse should stay with science for the prototype, but we would plan additional resources to indicate how the topics can be extended to other domains.
Amber suggested including Stephanie from the DMPTool because DMPTool has already done a lot of work in collecting the related questions/resources that can be reviewed in preparing a data management plan.

What area(s) of the CDI Science Support Framework could / should our project target?

- There was a training session on the RFP process; Tamar (& Shelley) was/ were able to attend and will help in sharing the session information.

- Important to demonstrate that there will be collaborations among different USGS locations as well as with external organizations.

It would be helpful if people from today’s call could consider writing letters of support for the project;
Sophie suggested that Matt Mayernik from NCAR might contribute a letter of support; she will mention the idea to him

Nancy, Tamar & Sophie to start the writing; others will review once a reasonable draft is produced

How should we involve rest of group?
Timeline
Funding might be able to apply to travels, activities to put together the framework, development activities, outreach presentations/publications, surveys (to be able to fill in the initial community feedback).
Amber suggested that a simple survey might be useful to find out what topics would be of interest to people, and that could possibly be part of the in-kind contribution if something like Survey Monkey or other online tools were used.
JC noted that USGS via Mike Frame’s department (area) had conducted an extensive survey of topics of interest to people in 2014; that survey might be very helpful in identifying topics for educational resource creation or descriptive tags as well, and could also represent an in-kind contribution, perhaps
In terms of coordination of the collaboration, Amber suggested that perhaps we can take NCEAS’ model: select a hosting site but place all the participants’ logos on the site

Nancy to contact Erin & Matt Jones regarding these efforts to see if collaboration would be beneficial to both