Data Stewardship Alliance
Conveners
- Ted Habermann, NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC
- Dave Fulker, UCAR/Unidata/OPeNDAP
- Mohan Ramamurthy, UCAR/Unidata
Abstract
In this session we engage participants in discussing the merits and nature of a potential data-stewardship alliance—as yet only in its conceptual stage—premised on the basis of broad, cross-agency needs for support services and tools that foster interoperability and address other data-creation and data-provision problems. We set the stage by outlining the nature of the problem and a possible solution, capitalizing on the conveners’ experiences with the Unidata Program as an example of how common tools and services can foster a sense of community and support the common good. We put forth a number of “straw-man” characteristics for the proposed alliance (tentatively dubbed Stewardship Alliance for Data-Intensive Science or SADIS), intending that they stimulate debate, discussion and/or eventual agreement on the value and timeliness of the concept.
