[Esip-preserve] Data Stewardship Training Telecon - Thursday May 26, 12 EDT

[Cook, Robert B.]

Hi Ruth,

I have another commitment at noon (EDT) today and won't be able to attend the teleconference.

I've looked over the information and wanted to provide some comments for you and the group to consider.

First, what are the constraints of the funding?  Funding duration (three years, one year) ?  What does the budget cover?:  workshop venue, participants costs (travel?), training materials, development of training materials?  Honoraria for lecturers?? The budget seems ample enough to plan a great training program, but I think it would be helpful to understand a bit more about it.

Perhaps we should consider an initial target audience and workshop venue at the outset, based on the existing funding and its constraints.  To me, that would help focus the material we develop.  

Option 1:  As a suggestion, let's say that our initial audience is early career Earth Scientists and the initial venue will be a 4 hour workshop associated with Fall 2011 AGU (maybe the Sunday before AGU).  Over the next year, perhaps this could be expanded into a one-day or two-day course either stand-alone or in association with another meeting. 

Option 2:  If the budget we have from NOAA expires in 2012, perhaps we could plan a week-long training session in early January (La Jolla) or late June 2012 (Breckenridge) for early career scientists.  We could work to get this course established through a university, or we could offer it as an "ESIP" course.  Lots of Universities are pushing Environmental Information Management (UT-Knoxville and UNM are two that I know of).  Maybe CU?  It would be a pain to get a new course approved at a University, but it would be worth the effort.
  
Course Content:
For early career scientists, the course should contain:
-the benefits of data stewardship
-Planning for data management (aka NSF's 2-page Data Management Plans)
-fundamentals of data management
-identifying a suitable archive and meeting their requirements

For a longer-course
-collecting data (from sensors, for example)
-relational databases
-metadata creation 
-analysis tools (R vs Excel)

This note clearly shows my bias for the scientist and proper creation and preservation of data products.

Thanks for considering these ideas.

Best wishes,
Bob
 

On May 25, 2011, at 12:46 AM, Ruth Duerr wrote:

> Please join us for the next Data Stewardship Training Telecon to be held this Thursday (May 26) at 12 EDT.  Based on the success of the "Developing your data management plan" workshop held at AGU last fall, this group, still in its formative stages, has the goal of developing data management training for both scientists and budding data managers.  If you are interested in the topic, please join and help shape ESIP's contributions in this area.
> 
> This weeks agenda:
> 
> Review newly revised charter - discuss roles and responsibilities - what are team members able and willing to support?
> Review course outline - what is missing, redundant?
> Discuss plan for generating course content
> 
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