[Esip-sustainabledm] Interested in sustainable data management issues?

[Erin Robinson]

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Best-
Erin

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Nancy Hoebelheinrich via
Esip-sustainabledm <esip-sustainabledm at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> Hello, all:
>
> Late last fall a number of representatives from various data repositories,
> data service providers, and others participated in a two and one half day
> workshop in Tempe, AZ, sponsored and funded by NSF, to discuss
> collaborative strategies for sustained environmental data management.  As
> an introduction, see the following quote from a briefing document
> participants received before the workshop:
>
>
>
> “Many environmental data repositories were initiated to fulfill specific
> needs or objectives, i.e. archiving and disseminating data from a project,
> network of research sites, institution, funding source, to accompany paper
> publications, or more recently, as data papers. This initiative was funded
> with the goal of exploring how we might develop this network of
> repositories in a way that will produce new collaboration and curation
> strategies that also cater to the currently underserved single
> investigators and move environmental data from ‘available’ to ‘usable’, in
> order to accelerate scientific inquiry.
>
> With this goal in mind we are bringing 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.”
>
>
>
> Several of the topics surfaced during the workshop garnered enough
> interest from participants to request that discussions continue under the
> auspices of a new ESIP cluster.  The three topics deemed of highest
> importance to discuss further included:
>
>
>
> *Conducting a Landscape Analysis and Gaps for Environmental Data
> Repositories*
>
> *Defining a Return on Investment (ROI) of Data Repositories for Society*
>
> *Describing a Common Technical Vision*
>
>
>
> Because many of the participants interested in discussing the ROI  issues
> planned to attend the ESIP Winter 2016 meeting, and remote participation
> was possible, a breakout session was conducted to continue discussions on
> the ROI issue.  We made some progress toward our goal of coming to
> agreement on what a return on investment would be for data repositories,
> but we know that we still have far to go.  We also thought that it might be
> a very good idea to broaden our discussions to include all those present at
> Tempe who might be interested, as well as other ESIP member organizations,
> and possibly EarthCube or other science focused groups.  As a matter of
> fact, there was some discussion about looking for funding to establish an
> EarthCube RCN on Data Repository Sustainability for this effort, especially
> if the effort included discussion of some of the other topics surfaced at
> the Tempe meeting.  This message is being sent to see if you are interested
> in the ROI topic, but also to solicit input on what you think of broadening
> our efforts to include all of the topics above, finding funding to continue
> the discussions, and whether you’d be available to participate in the
> continued discussions.
>
>
>
> If you are interested in more background information, an ESIP wiki page
> has been set up at:
> http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Sustainable_Data_Management.  Brief
> notes from the discussion at ESIP on the ROI issue can be found on this
> wiki page as well.  The wiki page also includes information about how to
> join the  esip-sustainabledm at lists.esipfed.org listserv that has been
> created.  We welcome your interest, and feedback on that listserv or on the
> esip_all listserv on what our next steps should / could be!  The next
> conference call for this cluster is coming up on Friday, March 11th at 4
> pm Eastern, 1 pm Pacific where we will be discussing our next steps.  Note
> that since this is a new cluster, ESIP is transitioning our telecons to
> GotoMeeting.com.  Call-in information will be sent out during  the week of
> March 11.  Please join the discussion!
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nancy Hoebelheinrich
>
>
>
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