[Esip-preserve] Citation Scenarios

[Bruce Barkstrom]

I think it's worth giving some thought to "long-term" guidance of our
processes.  With long-term planning, the horizon of guidance gets
long, but we need to drop details.  For shorter term items, such as
"what are we going to do in the coming month?" we must deal with
more details.

Bruce B.

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Curt Tilmes <Curt.Tilmes at nasa.gov> wrote:

> On 02/07/11 15:02, Bruce Barkstrom wrote:
>
> > I think we need to add another item to the list of new "projects": a
> > set of fully worked out examples of citation scenarios that include
> > at least the following: [...]
>
> I captured (some of) this onto the Citations wiki page [1] in two new
> sections: "Citation Scenarios" and "Citation Scenario Issues".  Needs
> some editting to be useful.
>
> > So, I'd like to see this kind of activity added to our discussions
> > on Wednesday.  It does need to dovetail with the inclination to work
> > toward a "standard" for "materials that need to be preserved".
>
> We have so much to cover and discuss, here is my proposal:
>
> 1. Keep the official "Monthly telecon" for high-level status,
>   planning, etc.  A time for the whole cluster to touch base.  I
>   don't think we have the time to devote much "working time" and
>   still accomplish the "business" functions of the meeting (which we
>   barely get through anyway).
>
> 2. I agree that the mailing list/wiki, while very useful, aren't
>   sufficient to achieve consensus on details and the ESIP meetings
>   are too rare to address all the issues we need to.  I think we need
>   to add additional "working group" telecons devoted to specific
>   sub-areas or topics needing more real-time discussion.  These could
>   be totally ad-hoc, or (my preference) a standing telecon (perhaps
>   on the 3rd or 4th Wed at the same time as the other telecon) where
>   we propose topics, then devote a telecon to address those topics.
>
>   It is perhaps premature for some of our activites where we are
>   really still in the research/investigation/discussion phase, but at
>   some point, for one or more activity we may want to implement more
>   formal governance.  The Discovery Cluster has set up a nice process
>   for managing their standards.[2]
>
> Curt
>
> [1]
> http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Interagency_Data_Stewardship/Citations
>
> [2] http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Discovery_Governance
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