[Esip-preserve] Stewardship Best Practices

[Curt Tilmes]

Looking over this a bit:

http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Principles

Here are some, perhaps controversial, proposals for addition:

Data Creators:

will release all software used in the processing of data used in
scientific research. Even if the rights to use that software are
restricted it should at least be available for inspection.

will strive for portability in software used in the processing of data
used in scientific to enable independent verification and
reproducibility of results.

Data Intermediaries:

will assign persisent resolvable identifiers for data. (link to
identifiers paper)

will maintain metadata for cited datasets to preserve the integrity of
persisent identifiers, even if the data themselves are deleted due to
obsolesence.

Data Users:

   "will follow any restrictions on redistribution of data that were
    indicated by the data intermediaries."

add software to that one:

will follow any restrictions on usage of software or redistribution of
data that were indicated by the data intermediaries.

Curt