[Esip-preserve] session proposal for ESIP summer meeting

[Corinna Gries]

Hi everyone,
By way of introduction, I am new to the data preservation group,  but have been involved with other ESIP activities. I would like to gather some input for a session that I would like to propose for the summer meeting. We (three LTER Information Managers) have recently (hence the somewhat short notice) received an NSF planning grant "Conceptualizing sustained environmental information management in the landscape of current and emerging eco-informatics infrastructure." The overall plan is to bring together data curators from a range of environmental research fields, data aggregators, tool developers, computer scientists and environmental scientists (both data providers and users) for an informed dialog which draws on our collective experience managing data and repositories. Building on earlier work within ESIP and to start the conversation for our project I would like to explore themes like the following in a session at the summer meeting:

·         Grassroots initiatives in environmental data management (research networks, universities, private sector)

o   Distributed data curation and storage –piecemeal or necessity?

o   Possible business model

o   What tools, standards, recommendations, policies are still missing

o   Collaboration/Governance models

o   Role of large initiatives (NASA, NOAA, DataONE, ….)
Not having been involved with this group, I am looking for guidance on whether this would be of interest, fits with the mission, or has been discussed before.
And I am looking for people interested in participating in such a session
Thanks for any input
Corinna
NTL LTER Information Manager

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