[Esip-sustainabledm] Fwd: [Esip-ficom] Request for travel support for external expert - Neil Beagrie

Tue May 16 12:10:26 EDT 2017

Whee!!!    Thank you for shepherding this, Margaret!   And everyone else for their support!

I would be happy to reach out to Beagrie, though I recall that Phil actually had a connection with him.   Phil is on this list, right?   Phil, we could reach out together, what do you think?   I’m happy to draft a letter.

Margaret, are they interested in him also as a plenary speaker?   Or just for our session?

Anne

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Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 10:01 AM
To: Ann Chiu via Esip-sustainabledm
Subject: [Esip-sustainabledm] Fwd: [Esip-ficom] Request for travel support for external expert - Neil Beagrie

Hi all -
ESIP has approved our request for funds to invite Beagrie. They are offering $1000, and no registration fee. Anne - do you want to get in touch with them?

Margaret

Margaret O'Brien
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Hi Margaret,

ESIP FiCom is happy to approve your request for up to $1000 travel funding and discounted meeting registration for Neil Beagrie to speak at the Sustainable Data Management session at the Summer ESIP meeting in Bloomington.

Apologies for the delay in responding to your request.  We have had occasional difficulties with the esip-ficom mailing list and are looking for a more reliable alternative.  Thanks for following up with Rebecca.

Please work with Erin and the ESIP Staff on setting up the flow of funds.

Cheers,
- Helen

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Date: Mon, May 15, 2017 at 8:50 AM
Subject: Fwd: Request for travel support for external expert - Neil Beagrie
To: Rebecca Koskela <rkoskela at unm.edu<mailto:rkoskela at unm.edu>>

Hi Rebecca -
Here is the request; in text and as a pdf attachement. As far as I know, we went through the right channels - I hope so!
I had a short discussion with Bruce over slack, about this as well. he encouraged me to attend the visioneers call, but I had a conflict.

thanks for checking in!

Margaret

Margaret O'Brien
ORCID: 0000-0002-1693-8322
Information Management
Marine Science Institute, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805-893-2071<tel:(805)%20893-2071> (voice)
http://environmentaldatainitiative.org<http://environmentaldatainitiative.org/>
http://sbc.marinebon.org<http://sbc.marinebon.org/>
http://sbc.lternet.edu<http://sbc.lternet.edu/>

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Date: Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 2:37 PM
Subject: Request for travel support for external expert - Neil Beagrie
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Hello -
The Sustainable Data Management Cluster is requesting funds to bring an external expert to the ESIP meeting. We think that this person would also be a good candidate for a keynote speaker. Our request in below (inline), with the same text attached as a PDF.

Thank you for your consideration,
Margaret O'Brien (chair)
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Sponsoring Cluster: Sustainable Data Management (chair: Margaret O’Brien, margaret.obrien at ucsb.edu<mailto:margaret.obrien at ucsb.edu>)

Session: Sustainable Data Management, Return on Investment

Value to Cluster: Beagrie and his colleagues have focused specifically on the difficult and nuanced question of how to determine the return on investment of a data center, and may be the preeminent leaders in this area in the world today. The cluster has relied heavily on their writings in order to develop useful frameworks for determining RoI of our own data repositories and centers.

Value to ESIP as a whole: Continued availability is fundamental to all aspects of “making data matter”, and so the ability to sustain data repositories and their content is critical.  Although repository users depend on the services they offer, the value of the provision of same is poorly understood and often underappreciated. In a climate of increasing data volumes with anticipated level or reduced funding, the demand on data repositories rapidly becomes untenable, and so the ability to determine their value to stakeholders is more urgent than ever.

Relevance to meeting theme: This speaker is an expert in the relationships between data management and stakeholders, and so well positioned to address the meeting theme of “connecting users to data”. This speaker has the potential to advance ESIP’s mechanisms for calculating the real value of the data and related support services that form ESIP’s basis. Beagrie, et al (e.g., 2014), have also shown that the process of RoI determination has the positive side effect of helping users better appreciate the value that a data center gives them.

Text:
The data products and services offered by environmental data centers have a variety of stakeholders, including researchers, educators, public officials, emergency responders, funding agencies, policy makers and the general public.  The ability to measure the value of data products and services to these diverse groups gives digital repositories and data centers the capability to demonstrate their contributions. ESIP’s Sustainable Data Management Cluster began in late 2015, with a goal to foster the sustainability of data management activities by increased collaboration and coordination among data service providers such as ESIP’s repositories and data archives. A major focus of the Cluster has been to develop a framework for calculating the Return on Investment (RoI) for our repositories’ data-related services so that their value to stakeholders can be accurately computed. The RoI group has been active at ESIP meetings since its inception (summarized under References).

Data center RoI calculation is complex because of the wide variety of centers, their levels of maturity, the highly varying natures of the datasets they offer, and the variety of user needs and expectations. Some calculations are relatively straightforward (e.g., direct payments or costs for storage), whereas others are very difficult to determine, e.g., future potential use, societal impact, and time saved by researchers. The Beagrie group is an independent management consultant specializing digital archives, library, science and research data management (https://www.beagrie.com/). Their areas of expertise include strategy and policy, business planning, stakeholder engagement, and evaluation and impact assessment. The group has authored several white papers, and our ESIP cluster has employed some of their methods in its exploration of a framework for calculating RoI for environmental data repositories.

We request funds to bring Neil Beagrie to speak at our session at the ESIP summer meeting. Dr. Beagrie is a recognized expert in the field of evaluating digital curation, digital preservation and e-Research, and is not associated with an ESIP member organization. His work has significantly informed the progress of the Sustainable Data Management Cluster, and would add significant value to the session. Although our request is for a working session with Beagrie to advance the Cluster’s work, we expect that his insights are of interest to a broad range of meeting participants, and that he would be an excellent candidate for a plenary talk (thereby increasing the RoI of his visit).

References
Beagrie, et al. 2014. New Research: The value and impact of data curation and sharing. https://blog.beagrie.com/2014/04/02/new-research-the-value-and-impact-of-data-curation-and-sharing/ (webpage accessed 2017-04-06)

Sustainable Data Mgt Cluster. 2016a. Notes: Return on Investment Subgroup (ESIP Winter Meeting Jan 2016). http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Return_on_Investment_Subgroup_(ESIP_Winter_Meeting_Jan_2016) (webpage accessed 2017-04-06)

Sustainable Data Mgt Cluster. 2016b. A Framework to Evaluate the Return on Investment (ROI) of a Data Repository. http://commons.esipfed.org/node/9133 (webpage accessed 2017-04-06)

Sustainable Data Mgt Cluster. 2017a. Measuring the Value of Data. http://commons.esipfed.org/node/9526 (webpage accessed 2017-04-06)

Sustainable Data Mgt Cluster. 2017b. Return on Investment Workshop Jan 25-26 2017 Tempe AZ.

http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Return_on_Investment_Workshop_Jan_25-26_2017_Tempe_AZ (webpage accessed 2017-04-06)

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http://sbc.marinebon.org<http://sbc.marinebon.org/>
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