[Esip-documentation] Help us develop ESIP FAIR Metadata Recommendations

[John Graybeal]

Hi again everyone,

I am sending this again because the first one may not have gone through (I am migrating email addresses), and I am also including a link to the referenced FAIR Funder Implementation Pilot's web page for those who want more information:
  https://www.go-fair.org/today/FAIR-funder/ <https://www.go-fair.org/today/FAIR-funder/>

John

> On Sep 26, 2019, at 9:51 PM, John Graybeal <jbgraybeal at sonic.net> wrote:
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> Tyler, Ted, Cluster folks,
> 
> Sorry I’ve missed this thread previously. 
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> There is a new Working Group proposal in RDA that you and many others may be interested in. It is called i-ADOPT: » InteroperAble Descriptions Of Observable Property Terminology WG, https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/interoperable-descriptions-observable-property-terminology-wg-i-adopt-wg <https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/interoperable-descriptions-observable-property-terminology-wg-i-adopt-wg>). Its goal is a computable model for documenting parameters of data sets (well, observations, actually). While it’s early days, a fair number of international participants are signed up, including a representative of Scott Peckham’s work. If you have someone at the Helsinki RDA in October, or who can get up early enough to watch remotely, that may be of interest.
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> Also, please note that the GO FAIR organization Tyler mentioned is establishing a FAIR Funder Implementation Pilot to pilot an end to end solution for FAIR metadata. This is particularly relevant because they will have to pilot one or more specifications for expressing FAIR metadata. So far the implementation leanings have been strongly toward RDF, and there are several specifications, tools and evaluators that have already been created in this direction. (Full disclosure, the CEDAR project I manage is one of the tools in the pilot.)  There was a presentation early September in DC including federal funding agencies, and one or two U.S. federal funding agency representatives may be participating in a meeting next week in the Netherlands to learn more about this pilot and describe their own needs, so those ideas are being exposed on our own shores.
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> I think the U.S. processes like the the METADIG and ESIP Documentation Cluster, and the E.U. processes like the GO FAIR approaches, are both doing really relevant things, but from pretty different perspectives, organizational approaches, and technologies. I would love to see more technical exchange (at least) between the two sets of activities, and figured the Cluster might find some of this information useful. I’ll try to tune into the Documentation Cluster work as much as I can.
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> John
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>> On Sep 24, 2019, at 07:51, Tyler Christensen - NOAA Federal via Esip-documentation <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org <mailto:esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org>> wrote:
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>> Hi Ted et al.,
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>> I missed the first call in the FAIR metadata series yesterday, but will definitely try to call in for the others.
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>> I'm on a cross-Federal-agency group that's looking at machine-readable standards for data dictionaries. Federal agencies do an *okay* job with the dataset-level metadata, but we are very inconsistent on documenting the details of each parameter within a dataset-- type, units, code definitions, null values, etc. We did a survey of Federal agencies, and it should come out as an OSTP report eventually.
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>> Having detailed info in a machine-readable standard format is key for FAIR data access. The GO FAIR folks are even doing a new series of Metadata for Machines workshops <https://www.go-fair.org/resources/go-fair-workshop-series/metadata-for-machines-workshops/> to help define standards. None in the US yet, but we're working on it.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tyler
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>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 9:51 AM Ted Habermann via Esip-documentation <esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org <mailto:esip-documentation at lists.esipfed.org>> wrote:
>> During the next three months, the ESIP Documentation Cluster is continuing efforts started at the 2019 ESIP Summer Meeting <https://esipfed.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca50850794ee72b04765ac93c&id=1860757f73&e=2a6432fcd6> to create a recommendation for FAIR Metadata <https://esipfed.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca50850794ee72b04765ac93c&id=34b04df6e6&e=2a6432fcd6> in three dialects (EML, ISO, and DataCite). Please join us for a discussion of metadata that supports the F in FAIR (Findability). See telecon info below.
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>> What: Documentation Cluster Telecon: Metadata that Support Findability
>> When: Monday September 23rd, 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET
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>> Tyler Christensen
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