Data Management Training/meeting notes 20160204

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

Agenda:

  • Anything we can do in the meantime?
  • Other ideas for activities (from July mtg notes last year):
  • Inventory of topics compared to ESIP’s original outline (Sophie’s Funding Friday work).
  • Evaluation of topics informed by Sophie’s comparison.
  • Evaluation of existing modules including:
  • Running some analytics (including Google Analytics) against the ESIP Commons website and possibly the Vimeo website for the modules to see how much they have been used, and other information that we could ascertain; would need to figure out how what could be discovered from Google Analytics and add to Drupal listings, probably. Talk to ESIP Drupal content manager about this?
  • Market / offer existing DM Short Course modules.
  • Call for authors for new modules and for updates to selected existing modules.
  • Evaluate current DM Short Course template and peer review process
  • Connect with ESIP Education Committee
  • Reports from other organizations / working groups: (DataONE, RDA, etc.)
  • Anything else?

Attending:

  • Shawn Smith, Amber Budden, Justin Goldstein, Matt Mayernik, Ruth Duerr, Tamar Norkin, April Clyburne-Sherin, Sophie Hou (briefly), Nancy Hoebelheinrich

Notes:

  • Nancy gave an update about the proposal submitted to the USGS Community for Data Integration for a Data Management Training Clearinghouse.
  • Ruth noted that a US Research Data Alliance (RDA) Working Group is starting to engage in a similar process and it would make sense to work together on the efforts.
    • The US RDA WG is in the process of determining what metadata should be gathered for the resources that they collect; at this point there are characteristics that they want to gather which are not presently included in the Schema.org's LRMI metadata schema such as whether fees are charged for the resources.
    • At this point, the resources are being collected in a spreadsheet, so this group might find it useful to include the resources they find in our Drupal, web-based Clearinghouse once we've got it set up.
    • Ruth will convey information back and forth to our group and this group on our efforts and suggest when working together more directly might be appropriate.
    • Amber also noted that DataONE's Rebecca Koskela is also on the RDA Metadata Working Group, and so might know more about any activities there or with this other group; she will talk with Rebecca about them.