Interagency Data Stewardship/LifeCycle/Jul2009MeetingPlans

Please contribute your thoughts and suggestions on our upcoming plans for including Cluster Activities at the upcoming summer ESIP meeting (Santa Barbara, July 2009).

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Please see the current schedule. Session descriptions, goals, outcomes, and speakers follow:

Preservation technologies to be given during Day 1 as a series of 1.5 hour technical workshops (perhaps a few may be split in half?)
- The intent of this session is to determine and begin to assess preservation technologies that exist in the market place (both commercial and open source)
- There would be presentations on technologies like Fedora, DSpace, DuraSpace, IRods, NCore, LOCKSS, as well as a variety of workflow related technologies, etc.
- Topics each speaker should cover:
  - Purpose of the technology (what aspects of data lifecycle does the technology support)
  - Capabilities
  - Known Limitations
  - Special emphasis given to discussion of how provenance/context is handled
- Suggested speakers
  - Fedora and Duraspace - Thornton Staples - confirmed
  - LOCKSS - Vicky Reich - confirmed
  - iRODS - Reagan Moore - confirmed
  - iExperiment - Paolo Missier - confirmed

Standards - this session could be held in the midst of the Provenance and Context workshop (~2 hours)
- Session Goals
  - Standards training
  - Raising awareness within the community of the standards that exist in the earth science
  - Determine where additional standards work is needed, where agency collaboration can help move things forward, etc.
- Presentations would be given on the following topics
  - Preservation standards
    - OAIS - Have someone knowledgeable about OAIS to explain what it is, how it is being used by NOAA and other agencies. (Why is it important to use it? Is it a mandatory for agencies to use? If so, who made it mandatory?)
  - Data formats - Discuss what is important in data formats to ensure long term preservation of data – talk about HDF, HDF-EOS and NetCDF in this context. What about agencies other than NASA and NOAA? What formats do they use? How does one ensure that data stored in HDF/HDF-EOS/NetCDF continue to be readable and understandable 50 years from now? Etc.
  - Metadata formats – treat similarly to data formats considering metadata standards currently in use (ISO standards, North American Profile, CF-1, COARDS, PREMIS).
- Suggested speakers:
  - OAIS (Handle this as a panel discussion following a 10-15 minute overview; total time ~30 minutes)
    - Lou Reich/John Granger (overview) confirmed
    - Ken McDonald (NOAA usage) confirmed
    - John Moses/Jeanne Behnke (NASA EOSDIS Data Centers' usage) confirmed
  - Data Formats (total time ~40 minutes)
    - Mike Folk - HDF efforts to improve data preservation (15 minutes) - confirmed
    - Russ Rew - NetCDF and data preservation (15 minutes) - confirmed
    - Discussion (10 minutes)- all
  - Metadata content and format standards (total time ~50 minutes)
    - Ted Habermann - FGDC and ISO standards (15 minutes) - confirmed
    - Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa - NASA ECS Data Model (10 minutes) - confirmed
    - Rebecca Guenther - PREMIS (15 minutes) - not confirmed - suggests Nancy Hoebelheinrich - Nancy confirmed
    - Discussion (10 minutes) - all

Rescuing the past (~1 hour)
- This session is about people's experiences in dealing with data from the past. What are the lessons that should be learned for the future?
- Suggested speakers:
  - John Moses - NASA (15 min) - confirmed
  - Dennis Wingo (15 min)- confirmed
  - Tom Ross (15 min) - NOAA - confirmed - but need to work out teleconferencing capabilities
  - Discussion (15 min)

The View from the Field (2 hours)
- What are other disciplines and agencies doing for preservation/stewardship? How do they deal with databases, collections of files, physical objects, ad-hoc services such as work flows? How do they deal with provenance? Any lessons to be learned and incorporated into earth science practice?
- Biology, Astronomy, Medicine, etc. are potential disciplines to be covered
- Suggested speakers (12 min per speaker):
  - Bruce Wilson representing Clifford Duke - Ecological Society of America workshops on data sharing. Link to Slides. Link to ESA Workshop web site
  - Nirav Merchant - iPlant - confirmed
  - George Djorgovski - National Virtual Observatory/Cal Tech - confirmed
  - Steve Hughes - Planetary Data Systems/JPL - confirmed
  - Reagan Moore - NARA - confirmed
  - Steve Morris - LOC - confirmed
- Moved the presentations re workflow related technologies to this session:
  - - Brian Wilson (JPL) - sciflo - confirmed
    - Paolo Missier - iExperiment.org (will also give a 90 min presentation on Tuesday) confirmed

Provenance and Context Workshop

The bulk of the time would be spent on a Provenance/Context Workshop (5 hours spread over 2 days) with agenda:

- Session 1 (2 hours):
- Introduction - Purpose of the workshop, overview of agenda, process-- Duerr (5min)
  - Prior work
    - Summary from Winter Meeting--Raskin (15 min)
    - Review of Guiding Documents: OAIS, PREMIS, USGCRP descriptions of provenance/context -- Duerr (30 Min)
  - Provenance and Context research
    - 3 15 min briefings on some of the research projects in this area and how they fit into overall research agenda
    - Speaker suggestions:
      - Jim Frew - confirmed
      - Bruce Barkstrom - confirmed
      - Ruth Duerr - Creation of archive information packages confirmed
- Open Discussion (~25 min)
  - Review what we learned in preceeding sessions
  - Determine what's missing
  - Plan initial approach to creating final document

- Session 2 (1 hour)
  - Review prior days plan. New ideas? Modifications.
  - Finalize outline for a report with a recommended Research Agenda and Short-term Action Plan
  - Break into small writing teams

- Session 3 (2 hours)
  - Writing teams continue for first hour
  - Reconvene and determine plan for finalizing document

Cluster Meeting (Friday morning)
- Agenda:
  - Moving forward with results from the provenance workshop
    - Unfinished business
    - Any emergent topics?
  - Unique identifiers
    - Develop plan for testbed
      - Identify data sets for test
      - Identify ID schemes to use
      - Define assessment strategy
  - Other activities/topics for the group