[Esip-preserve] Data Committee

Hua, Hook (388C) hook.hua at jpl.nasa.gov
Wed Jul 20 11:53:33 EDT 2011


The phrase, "best practices", is commonly use.

So for (a), should we say, "To develop, evolve, foster, or adopt practices..." or ""To develop, evolve, foster, or adopt best practices..." ?

Everyone has practices, but it may be the cluster's role to identify which are the best practices.

--Hook


On 7/20/11 10:44 AM, "Tilmes, Curt (GSFC-6145)" <Curt.Tilmes at nasa.gov>
wrote:

>
>> a) To develop, evolve, foster, or adopt practices and standards that
>> ensure continued and reliable information content, quality, access
>> to, and usability of Earth system science data for as long as they
>> are deemed to be of value.
>>
>> b. To facilitate the long-term preservation and stewardship of Earth
>> system science data.
>>
>> c. To facilitate accessing and referencing Earth system science data.
>>
>> d) To facilitate the development of data science as a professional
>> discipline that adds value and increases the use of Earth system
>> science data.
>
>I do like this, but...
>
>Is the "... practices and standards that ensure ... access to ... data
>..." in a) redundant with the "...facilitate accessing ... data" in
>b)?
>
>The way we 'facilitate' something is usually to
>develop/evolve/foster/adopt practices and standards that do it.
>
>
>We could remove "accessing" from c. and put "citation" back in (As
>Kathy pointed out, that term has special meaning, and it would be nice
>to include it -- I also prefer 'citation' to 'citability'
>aestheticly..)
>
>
>c. To facilitate reference and citation of Earth system science data.
>
>Curt


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