[Esip-sustainabledm] Sustainable Data Management - Cluster highlights, for ESIP

[Robert R Downs]

Hi Margaret,

The three items that you outlined, below, appear to reflect our progress.

Thanks,

Bob

Robert R. Downs, PhD
Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research
Acting Head of Cyberinfrastructure and Informatics Research and Development
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
The Earth Institute, Columbia University
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
Voice: 845-365-8985; fax: 845-365-8922
E-mail: rdowns at ciesin.columbia.edu
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On 6/23/2016 12:46 PM, Margaret O'Brien via Esip-sustainabledm wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> In prep for the upcoming summer meeting, ESIP has asked that we 
> provide 3 highlights of our activities this year for their 
> state-of-the-federation report. Here is what I have drafted for the 
> cluster:
>
> 1. Formed the cluster in January 2016 to investigate and promote 
> pathways for sustainable, increased collaboration and coordination 
> among repositories and data practitioners
>
> 2. Focused first efforts on the repositories themselves, to understand 
> the return on investment (ROI), the landscape of services offered, and 
> to develop a common technical vision.
>
> 3. First steps for ROI and landscape analysis are focused on examining 
> available resources such as reports on business models and cost 
> recovery options for repositories, and registries of repositories and 
> their services (e.g. re3data, COPDESS, RDA, CDF).
>
> Also, they have asked for an info-graphic if we have one -- Shelley 
> Stall has offered one of her (and Erin's) bubble graphs showing roles 
> and interactions.
>
> Does that sound OK? We can have more detail on the poster, and during 
> the sessions of course.
>
> Margaret
>