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

Wed Mar 2 19:21:17 EST 2016

Hi Nancy,

I am definitely interested to participate in the discussions. Obviously 
it would be critical to include the Council of Data Facilities.

Kerstin

On 3/2/16 14:45 PM, Nancy Hoebelheinrich via Esip-sustainabledm 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 
> <mailto: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 11^th 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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>
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-- 
Dr. Kerstin Lehnert
Director, Interdisciplinary Earth Data Alliance
Director, EarthChem
President, IGSN e.V.

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
Palisades, NY, 10964
(845) 365-8506
http://www.iedadata.org
http://www.earthchem.org
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