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Meeting Notes - Data Stewardship Committee - 2017-04-17 2 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. MST / 11 a.m. PT

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Attendees: Matt Mayernik, Sophie Hou, Shelley Stall, Ruth Duerr, Rama, Bruce Caron, Paul Lemieux, Jamie Collins, Heather Brown, Nancy Hoebelheinrich, David Moroni, Mark Parsons, Bob Downs, Shannon Leslie


Notes:

1) ESIP Program Committee update

  • Main agenda item has been preparing for all hands Summer Meeting
  • Also: Travel support is available to support speakers for the meeting (although deadline has already passed for the 2017 meeting in Bloomington)

2) Conference reports

*Objective: Gathering & aggregating list of repository software
*Ultimately: Produce a registry of tools
  • Rama: Whatever comes of it will be of interest to our committee; hopefully some of us can provide input (see web link)
  • Matt heard from attendees that our Data Rescue document was a hot topic at the meeting
  • Rama: Invited speaker (Michael Diepenbroek, co-chair of RDA’s "Fitness for use" WG) at upcoming Information Quality Cluster telecon (Tuesday May 9, 11 AM EDT) will be talking about some RDA-related topics; might be of interest to DS cluster folks
  • EGU: At least one person (Mark Parsons) plans to attend
  • Sophie: Reports that she, Nancy and Shelley have been invited to a meeting hosted by Belmont Forum to discuss how to develop training/education for data-related skills
  • Other members from the Data Stewardship Committee might also have been invited.