[Esip-preserve] Stewardship Best Practices

Ruth Duerr rduerr at nsidc.org
Wed Oct 6 10:44:15 EDT 2010


Hi Curt,

Thanks for the suggestions.  I haven't heard anything negative about them to this point and I think that they are appropriate  We should probably explicitly discuss them at next week's telecon.  

Ruth

On Oct 6, 2010, at 5:25 AM, Curt Tilmes wrote:

> 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
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