Interagency Data Stewardship/LifeCycle/Preservation Forum/TeleconNotes/2017-10-16meetingnotes

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Meeting Notes - Data Stewardship Committee - 2017-10-16 2 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. MST / 11 a.m. PT

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Attendees: Leslie Hsu, Bruce Caron, Heather Brown, Nancy Ritchey, Ruth Duerr, Rama, Matt Mayernik, Sophie Hou, Jamie Collins, Shelley Stall, Denise Hills, Justin Goldstein, Corinna Gries, Bob Downs, Philip Jones


Notes:


1) ESIP Program Committee update / budget request update


2) Quick reminder about nominations for ESIP leadership positions (Sophie H.)


3) Bob Downs presented briefly on events at the recent RDA meeting

  • Good session on certification of repositories
  • Also, a good session on infrastructure (repository platforms for research data)
  • Included presentations by several developers
  • Bob reported that slides will soon be posted


4) Invited Presentation: Leslie Hsu, USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI)

  • Have workshop every 2 years; last one this May in Denver
  • CDI is much like ESIP: Lots of remote presentations/teleconferences; wide range of experience/background in those represented
  • USGS manages but Leslie stresses not strictly a USGS organization; anyone can be a member
  • Currently active topics (focus areas) include: Data management (data life cycle), tech stack (joint w/ESIP Tech Dive), open source software development, semantic web, bioinformatics, DevOps
  • Current info can be found on the CDI Wiki: https://my.usgs.gov/confluence/display/cdi/Home
  • At the latest CDI workshop in May:
  • Much like an ESIP meeting (sessions are suggested/introduced/chaired by those interested)
  • Theme: "Enabling Integrated Science"
  • Four areas of focus: Computing Capacity, Modeling, Data & Integration, Science Data Infrastructure
  • For each area, asked same questions:
  • Where are we now?
  • Where to we want to be?
  • How do we get there?
  • Meeting began with some keynotes, then transitioned to breakouts
  • Charge to breakouts: Return with 3-5 specific suggestions or actions that could be taken to fill the gaps in a specific area
  • Outcomes:
  • Lots of notes and suggestions
  • 40-50 separate recommendations; ~ 10 pilot projects proposed
  • Everyone did a great job of translating these notes into well-organized reports
  • The challenges:
  • Figure out which of the many recommendations/suggestions were most feasible, and which will have the greatest impact for USGS
  • Determine how best to translate roadmap into action
  • Four critical lessons learned from the experience:
  • Relate the suggestion back to the USGS CDI organizational framework and goals (a requirement)
  • Publish and share a document
  • Puts results/suggestions/ideas into the public forum (working on getting DOIs for these documents)
  • Link the ideas to funding opportunities and deadlines
  • Recruit champions for the idea/concept
  • Be vocal & advocate (Rich Signell's success with push for a mini-series on interactive reproducible notebooks is a good example)
  • Some questions/comments:
  • Sophie asked whether it has been difficult for individuals who want to be champions to get support
  • Leslie:
  • Some potential champions have a lot more time/bandwidth to devote to side projects; others do not have the concrete resources to do so
  • CDI has been working to communicate the value of these efforts up to USGS leadership and managers, in hopes of providing more opportunities for such people
  • Matt asked about the process used to determine which recommendations were most "actionable"/feasible
  • Leslie noted that the decision-making process balances potential impact with feasibility
  • Bob Downs pointed out that potential champions can be those with common goals or similar projects/interests, so that those who do not have the resources to work specifically on advocating a particular project might be able to advocate for the idea/project generally


5) Update from Rama on ISO standard development

  • Rama has been working to establish a PCCS standard through ISO
  • Effort grew out of earlier efforts at ESIP, NASA, ESA, CEOSS WGISS etc.
  • Draft standard has been released as ISO 19165 and Rama proposed extension as 19165-2
  • International effort to establish standard will take 3 years
  • Rama will be soliciting comments/feedback from the DS cluster once a more formal draft has been developed


6) ESIP winter meeting ideas

  • Deadline for session proposals is end of this month
  • Matt: Session on data risk factors: How do we identify/categorize risk factors so data managers/users can figure out which might be most applicable for their environment
  • Justin may propose a session on data visualization (if he and colleagues are not at AMS, which is happening concurrently)
  • Rama reports some possible Information Quality cluster sessions which may be of interest: A follow-up from the summer meeting; progress update for the NASA data quality working group
  • Matt asked whether it would be useful to have another cluster business meeting
  • Some attendees felt we might only need to have a single business meeting; Bruce thought summer might work best for purposes of the Federal fiscal year