Telecon 10.28.13 materials

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

Participants: Anne Wilson; Bob Downs; Carol Meyer

1. General

Conversation about who to involve on the panel.
Jen Schopf as an workshop invitee, to represent the networking infrastructure angle

2. Messaging

  • Issues to be underscored - data collection is a temporary activity; data become at risk after collection activities due to lack of explicit support for data stewardship; data generator *might* not have access to their data if its archiving has not been supported; publications fill some of this gap for research results, less on the data
  • High Level Questions:
  • how much metadata to preserve
  • what metadata to preserve

Four Themes

  • Culture
  • reactive rather than proactive - needs to be forward looking
  • need professional development/education to affect culture change
  • need incentives = Funding
  • Technology Drivers
  • new technologies create research opportunities
  • new technologies potentially change current stewardship paradigm
  • Stewardship of Scientific Assets
  • metadata issues
  • what gets saved & how?
  • what can be regenerated rather than saved?
  • Funding


  1. finalize plenary panel list via email
  2. articulate our questions - plus, 'what could the study do for your agency' (no slides, instead a conversation)
  3. draft invitation ** carol to draft invitation
  4. carol send email regarding structuring the breakout