[Esip-preserve] possible session at ESIP

[Parsons, Mark]

Hi all,

I have not been keeping up with conversations about winter meeting planning, but I have a session idea that I’d like to hear people’s thoughts on. I don’t know if this belongs under the stewardship committee or more broadly, but it would seem worthwhile to have a discussion on strategic partnerships for ESIP.

There’s a lot going on in the data world these days. Is ESIP playing an appropriate role? I’m of course thinking of RDA, but there is also the Council of Data Facilities and COPDESS. The Belmont Forum e-infrastructure initiative is moving in to an implementation phase, whatever that might mean. RDA/US is coordinating a collaboration effort of domain repositories to try and amplify their voice at a national level (this includes non-Earth science repositories). The National Data Service is up and running and exploring some test bed activities with RDA/US. Force11, CODATA, and others are doing things about data citation. I’m sure there’s more.

ESIP members are involved in all these activities and maybe that’s sufficient, but maybe we could be more coordinated and strategic. Perhaps this is just a discussion at the business meeting, but I think it could be more. We could hear short reports on the various initiatives and then discuss ways forward. We had the beginnings of this conversation in Copper Mountain last summer. It would be good to continue.

What do people think? I could help coordinate, but I’d want help.

cheers,

-m.