Interagency Data Stewardship/LifeCycle/Preservation Forum/TeleconNotes/20101013

Telecon Notes - October 13, 2010

Attending

Li (JPL), Al Fleig, Curt Tilmes, Mark Parsons, Jerry Pan, Bruce Barkstrom, Helen Conover, John Schialdone, Rob Raskin, Chris Lynnes, Yuechen Chi

Agenda

• Identifiers paper
• Identifiers testbed
• ESIP stewardship principles and best practices draft
  • Mark's update to the citation suggestion
  • Next steps
• Provenance paper - next steps
• AGU preparations
• January meeting preparations

Identifiers paper update

A complete paper was sent out to the authors to review and many have provided comments. Based on the comments, some restructuring will be done before it is submitted:

• Much of the use case discussion will be pulled up in front of the assessment sections
• The assessment sections will be restructured to make them more uniform in presentation. Specifically each assessment will be structured as follows:
  • Introduction and example
  • Technical Value
  • User Value
  • Archive Value
  • Use case support
• Use case 4 (scientific identity) will be fleshed out and will add some of the material from the email Bruce sent out on the topic
• Curt Tilmes' FOO examples from emails to esip-preserve will be added as supplementary materials

Identifiers testbed

Nancy Hoebelheinrich is out on vacation; but Yuechen gave a summary of his activities.

All of the glacier photo DB records have been loaded in the ESIP mySQL database and sample DOI XML generated for 10 records. Once Nancy approves the XML, the remainder of the DOI's can be generated. Yuechen noted that there is a limit of 5K on the size of an XML request for DOI's which implies that several requests will need to be generated in order to cover the entire data set.

Draft data management principles and practices

After discussion it was agreed:

• The draft as it stands is OK and is ready for endorsement at the Jan meeting
• To preserve the IPY Guidelines for posterity, Mark Parsons will move them into the wiki (IPY is over and the website will die soon)
• Mark will also start two wiki pages for discussing citation guidelines. One for users, one for producers
• Defining these guidelines will be an activity for the cluster over the next year. The goal would be to go for endorsement within a year of either/both

Provenance paper

Curt noted that he'd distributed a draft of the paper to the esip-preserve mailing list and has received lots of comments. He'll come back to the group after he's had a chance to digest all of them.

AGU preparations

AGU has approved the ESIP request for a workshop on writing a data management plan. It will be held Tuesday at noon. NOAA and Carol Meyer are leading this effort. The goal would be to not only have the workshop; but also to release materials on-line perhaps as a video tutorial.