[Esip-sustainabledm] FW: Invitation to Summer meeting of Federation of Earth Science Information Partners

[Anne Wilson]

Hi all,

Fyi, the invitation to Beagrie, below, has been sent.   Fingers crossed.


Anne





On 5/19/17, 7:13 PM, "Anne Wilson" <Anne.Wilson at lasp.colorado.edu> wrote:

>Dear Dr. Beagrie,
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>Greetings from two members of the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP, http://esipfed.org/).   My colleague Phil Tarrant, from Arizona State University, contacted you earlier this year on the topic of data repository ROI. I am Anne Wilson, from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).  We are both members of the ESIP Working Group on Sustainable Data Management, http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Sustainable_Data_Management.
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>Our group has been been particularly focused on how to evaluate the return on investment of a data center, and has greatly benefited from your publications on that topic. It seems that the importance of this topic is growing not just in the Earth and space sciences, but with scientific data in general in the US, as we face dwindling budgets and greater demands around data.
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>Our working group is planning a session at the ESIP meeting to be held this summer. We requested and were awarded funding from ESIP and also an NSF grant to invite you to the summer meeting in order to meet with you. The commitment we seek would be to give a presentation regarding your work and experience for general appeal, plus possibly an additional working session with our group where we could ask you for questions and advice. We did note the recent release of your Cost-Benefit Advocacy Toolkit, which we are eager to learn about further.
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>Phil and I are pleased to offer you $1K plus meeting registration and hotel expenses if you would be willing to meet with us. The meeting is in Bloomington, Indiana, July 25 - 28. Our session is on July 27, 9:00 AM.
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>Would you please let us at your earliest convenience know if you are interested and available? Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you for thinking about this!
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>Sincerely,
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>Anne Wilson
>Phil Tarrant
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