[Esip-sustainabledm] New ESIP Cluster: Sustainable Data Management

[Margaret O'Brien]

Hello all -
The ESIP cluster for our group has been set up:
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Sustainable_Data_Management

Ann is populating the collaboration area with the material we have 
(workshop notes, bibliography), and as with other clusters you can 
manage your email subscription from that page too. At least one of our 
interest groups is planning a BoF for the ESIP winter meeting. So we're 
off to a good start.

To refresh your memory, we have three interest group planning to move 
forward (below). There was one other group called "Engaging 
Stakeholders", but since every activity has stakeholders, I think the 
trend was to wrap those activities into the other three. And of course - 
now that we're free of the physical restraints of a workshop, you don't 
have to limit your 'interest' to just one, you can work with them all! yay!

A. Return on Investment in Data Repositories for Society
Characterize the economics of centers and repositories to 
qualify/quantify the value of data management and the data they hold

B. Common Technical Vision
Define areas or domains where common practices could be applied, eg, for 
APIs, endpoints, structures, provenance, version control

C. Landscape Analysis
Define services available (from data centers and repositories) to 
scientists, to help scientists decide which repositories match their 
needs, and to provide context for the other two interest groups.

The Return-on-Investment group is the one planning the BoF session -- so 
far they have commitments from Nancy Hoebelheinrich (organizer?), Anne 
Wilson, Ruth Duerr, Peter McCartney

The next things for cluster-organizer (me) to do are
1. Set up a monthly telecon. This most likely will not meet until after 
the ESIP meeting. We may be able to get it set up before then, so you 
should be seeing something on that soon.

2. send an announcement out to esip-all.


That's it for now --

Margaret

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Margaret O'Brien
Information Management
Santa Barbara Coastal LTER
Marine Science Institute, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805-893-2071 (voice)
http://sbc.lternet.edu