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:

• External Relations
  • 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?

• Promote Data Stewardship Vocation
  • ID list of data stewardship-related post-graduate academic programs
  • Look at issues related to informatics of ESIP Federation data
  • Provide a job search clearinghouse service (!!!); need to link potential employers with potential employees or soon-to-be grads of the academic programs
  • Provide a means for knowledge capture related to the stewardship of ESIP Federation-related data???

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.