Sustainable Data Management/20160916 telcon notes

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Present: Corinna Gries, Steven Earl, Bob Downs, Ruth Duerr, Philip Tarrant, Cyndy Parr, John Porter, Nancy Hoebelheinrich (note-taker, did I miss anyone?)

Regrets: Margaret O’Brien, Anne Wilson

Agenda:

Report on meetings at ESIP Summer
Possibilities for study of data repos using some approaches from Beagrie’s JISC report
Face to face workshop

Notes:

Good attendance at the ROI meeting with presentations essentially recapping reports & discussions from calls during last few months by Anne Wilson, Bob Downs and Ruth Duerr

Session 1: A Framework to Evaluate the Return on Investment (ROI) of a Data Repository; session description at: http://sched.co/6uH4
Session 2: Sustainable Data Management for Environmental Science Repositories – Summary Session: http://sched.co/6uGs
Recordings of sessions not yet available (to our knowledge)

One outcome of the meeting – Funding Friday request by Ruth Duerr & Bob Downs to use one or more approaches from the Beagrie JISC report to study the CIESIN data repository

Report at: http://repository.jisc.ac.uk/5568/1/iDF308_-_Digital_Infrastructure_Directions_Report,_Jan14_v1-04.pdf
Anne Wilson summary of this report (presentation slides): http://wiki.esipfed.org/images/5/5f/JISC_report_out.04.21.16.pdf
Funding Friday proposal not chosen to fund
Encouragement given to submit the proposal as a Special Project to the ESIP Finance Committee by Erin Robinson

If the Beagrie approaches are used to study one repository; should there be others?

Other data repos that might be worth studying:

NCEAS
Dryad?
North Temperate Lakes LTER at Madison, WI (Corinna’s data repo)
NSIDC?
Might also be useful to review the categories for the metrics from the annual Consumer Satisfaction Survey that are submitted by the NASA DAACs every year
We’ll hold off on having a face to face workshop until we see a clear accomplishment that we could gain from another face to face meeting.

Action Items:

Ruth and Bob Downs to pursue a request for funding the study of CIESIN from ESIP’s Special Project funds
Corinna, Nancy, Philip, Margaret to get together to discuss the feasibility of studying the North Temperate Lakes LTER data repository (Nancy to set up doodle poll)
Bob Downs to submit example or template or categories included in NASA’s Consumer Satisfaction Survey