[Esip-cdf] No CDF Zoom meeting the month. Come to our CDF session at the Summer meeting

[Nick Jarboe]

Dear CDF members,

We will not have our Zoom telecon meeting this month but please do come to
our session on Wednesday the 23rd at the ESIP summer meeting.

https://2025julyesipmeeting.sched.com/event/25ehp/council-of-data-facilities-ai-readiness-funding-and-support-and-cdfs-future-west-room-3rd-flr

Council of Data Facilities: AI-readiness, Funding and Support, and CDF’s
Future

Session Description
The Council of Data Facilities serves as a community focus for data
repositories to share knowledge, work on topics of common concern, and
speak with a united voice to external communities. This session, open to
all, will cover three topics:

1) AI-readiness and data facilities: status, needs, and opportunities. As
AI is broadly revolutionizing how science and research are done, it is also
bringing new expectations for data repositories to supply AI-ready data. As
data facilities, what are the challenges this poses, what are the resources
that are available, what are the gaps, and what do we need to move forward?
An effort to develop a community roadmap article on data facility
AI-readiness will be presented, and members will be invited to give
feedback and participate in an open discussion of common challenges,
interests and collaborative opportunities.

2) Data facilities in a chaotic environment. Given the unprecedented shifts
in funding and agency priorities around data curation, how do we as a
community organize to support each other and advocate for the critical work
we do? This section will discuss the human side of communication and
support, and will coordinate with the separate sessions on data replication
across repositories and the repository crisis scorecard.

3) Future Goals and Directions. As data facility needs and interests
evolve, and as stressors add demands on our limited time, how can the CDF
best organize to serve its community, and to communicate to critical
external communities. This will include a brief overview of its original
mission and role, and a community “open mike” time for your thoughts on
what the CDF can do for you.

Value to Session Participants
The goal is to support data facilities with two current topics of high
interest- AI-readiness and navigating the current chaos - as well as get
input to better position the CDF work to serve the community going forward
(the CDF has lost some momentum lately.)

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session
Gather your ideas and issues on how your repository is prepared and
preparing for AI readiness and greater funding uncertainty. Have you have
been part of the CDF in the past? Why did you participate and is there
something that you would like the CDF to focus on going forward?

Cheers,
Nick and Karen
-- 
Nicholas Jarboe
EarthRef and MagIC
Jarboe Enterprises
njarboe at earthref.org
510-390-1819
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