Sustainable Data Management/20200410 telcon notes

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Agenda

  1. Review notes and ideas from February
  2. 3 Slides for ESIP Collaboration Area Highlights

Goal: summarize our activities to the rest of the Federation, solicit ideas or members.


Background

Our original raison d'etre

This group formed in late 2015 to investigate pathways for sustainable, increased collaboration and coordination among repositories engaged in environmental data management that would benefit both research networks and individual investigators. Although the participants are all associated with repositories, the goal is sustainability of the data holdings, not necessarily the repository. The group has three major activities:

  • Develop a framework for describing Return on Investment (ROI) in data repositories;
  • Describe the landscape of data services offered by repositories, to identify gaps; and
  • Define a Common Technical Vision which best sustains data.

Link to notes from the Tempe meeting: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Notes_from_Collaborative_Strategies_for_Sustained_Environmental_Data_Management_workshop_(Tempe,_AZ_Nov_2015)

Accomplishments

In the major areas above:

Framework for describing Return on Investment (ROI) in data repositories;
Describing the landscape of data services offered by repositories, to identify gaps;

This topic is being covered by RE3data (https://www.re3data.org/). Our involvement with them has been intended to further this objective


Define a Common Technical Vision to sustain data.
    • Held a followup workshop in Santa Barbara: Developing a Common Technical Vision for Repository Interoperability
      • Notes:
    • Paper: Gries C, A. Budden, C. Laney, M. O'Brien, M. Servilla, W. Sheldon, K. Vanderbilt, D. Vieglas. 2018. Facilitating and Improving Environmental Research Data Repository Interoperability. Data Science Journal. https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2018-022

Attending

  • Megan Carter
  • Gary Morz
  • Ruth Duerr
  • John Porter
  • Corinna Gries
  • Shelley Stall
  • Rebecca Koskela

Regrets

  • Cyndy Parr
  • Bob Downs

Notes

Notes from last meeting (Feb)

Ideas for this group

  • Rebecca: we should look at what Nancy and ___ are doing. what is there new cluster
  • Corinna: This group was formed maily so we could wokr on these 3 topics. perhaps we shoud rejoin the data stewardship (DS) group.
  • Ruth: DS group has about 6 activiies going
  • Guidance for start-up repositories (Shelley)
  • background: early 2020, in the context of FAIR - starting a repo is formidable. however, they are occasionally started. Shelley has started a set of guidelines, asked for CDF to comment

Action items