[Esip-preserve] Data Committee

[Hua, Hook (388C)]

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