Interagency Data Stewardship/Principles

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Reference Materials

Draft Outline of Statement

  • Statement of data stewardship principles and recommended practices
    • Why?
      • ESIP wants to be a leader in promoting collection, stewardship, and use of Earth science data - from Vision statement
      • ESIP is to "reduce barriers between data providers and data users" - Goal 1 of strategic plan
      • ESIP is to promote use of technical standards and best practices for data management, stewardship, and application development - Goal 2 of strategic plan
    • Principles for Data users
      • Credit
      • Invite collaboration
      • Responsible use
      • Awareness of caveats or limitations of the data
      • Duty to ask
    • Principles for Data Providers
      • Data Intermediaries (i.e., repositories, value-added providers, etc.)
        • ??
      • Data creators
        • ??