Making the Case for Data Stewardship Use Cases: A Community Building and Engagement Exercise

Project Submitted By: Denise Hills, Geological Survey of Alabama and Sarah Ramdeen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

GOALS:

• Extending the current ESIP Data Stewardship community to include people from all points in the data life cycle
• Promote ESIP to a more diverse community, in line with ESIP’s overall mission
• Create interdisciplinary connections
• Achieve synergy in data management practice

PLAN:

• Submit a proposal for a Town Hall meeting at the Fall 2013 AGU meeting
• Submit two abstracts to an Informatics session - one focused on broad purpose and need for Data Stewardship Use Cases, the second focused more specifically on a particular Use Case
• Presentations would be used to promote the Town Hall, or to follow up on the Town Hall discussions
• If the Town Hall were not accepted, the presentations would still serve the meet the outlined goals.

EXPECTED OUTCOMES:

• Broader community involvement the ESIP Data Stewardship Committee
• Increase the knowledge base of Data Stewardship standards and practices by including more stake-holders
• Potential publication (e.g., in EOS) of results of the Town Hall