[Esip-preserve] Do We Need Scientific Liaisons - along with all those other kinds of people?

[Mark A. Parsons]

Yes,

Here was my reply to Bruce:

> liaisons, translators, data scientists, data wranglers... the idea has been repeatedly promoted in the informatics literature.
> 
> -m.

I also mention:

> I had a postdoc as a data wrangler for the CLPx field experiment and that was great. It is described in:
> 
> Parsons, M A, M J Brodzik, and N J Rutter. 2004. Data management for the cold land processes experiment: Improving hydrological science. Hydrological Processes 18 (18): 3637-3653. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/109856902.	
> 
> I can give you other references  to  discussions of these sorta roles. The data scientist concept was especially pushed by the NSB:
> 
> NSB (National Science Board). 2005. Long-Lived Digital Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education in the 21St Century. Washington, DC: National Science Foundation. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsb0540/.



-m.
On 11 Mar 2011, at 12:03 PM, Ruth Duerr wrote:

> Would these be data managers?
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Mar 11, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Bruce Barkstrom <brbarkstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> As I'm working through use cases for glacier photos, I'm beginning to wonder
>> if we don't need some specialists in scientific disciplines who can serve as
>> "translators" from scientific concepts into metadata.  While I can do radiative
>> transfer nomenclature and some kinds of instrument model physics, it seems
>> to me that we may need a fairly broad kind of representation of different kinds
>> of instrumentation and scientific background to avoid misrepresenting the
>> highly specialized knowledge required to accurately interpret Earth science
>> data.  The same kind of liaisons might be useful in dealing with resource
>> managers who need Earth science data or with teachers at various levels
>> in the educational system.
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> Bruce B.
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