[Esip-preserve] session proposal for ESIP summer meeting

[Ruth Duerr]

Hi Corinna,

Welcome to the ESIP Data Stewardship world!  

I do think that your group can learn a lot about the themes you’ve outlined below by attending this group on an ongoing basis as these are all topics that have been addressed at one point or another as the group endeavors to push the whole field forward.  We tend to re-address these as needed - whenever circumstances dictate.  

I also note that there is a huge amount of literature on these topics that you should probably be aware of - some of which is available on the ESIP wiki site (but only really a tiny amount as compared to all that is available).  A good place to start on the business model front would be “Sustaining Domain Repositories for Digital Data: A While Paper” by Ember and Hanisch.

Moreover, the number of groups making progress on various parts of the problem is huge and seems to be growing.  In addition to ESIP, some of these are:

- Council of Data Repositories of EarthCube
- Coalition for Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Sciences
- Research Data Alliance
- Research Data Access and Preservation
- …

My only concern about your session is that there are already 5 preservation and 2 related sessions proposed, which is a lot given the number of session slots available.  I am worried that we’ll already be competing against ourselves as is!  On the other hand, your questions certainly fits the mission.  

I’ll be interested in seeing what other ESIP folks think.

Ruth Duerr



On Apr 21, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Corinna Gries via Esip-preserve <esip-preserve at lists.esipfed.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> By way of introduction, I am new to the data preservation group,  but have been involved with other ESIP activities. I would like to gather some input for a session that I would like to propose for the summer meeting. We (three LTER Information Managers) have recently (hence the somewhat short notice) received an NSF planning grant "Conceptualizing sustained environmental information management in the landscape of current and emerging eco-informatics infrastructure." The overall plan is to bring together data curators from a range of environmental research fields, data aggregators, tool developers, computer scientists and environmental scientists (both data providers and users) for an informed dialog which draws on our collective experience managing data and repositories. Building on earlier work within ESIP and to start the conversation for our project I would like to explore themes like the following in a session at the summer meeting:
> ·         Grassroots initiatives in environmental data management (research networks, universities, private sector)
> o   Distributed data curation and storage –piecemeal or necessity?
> o   Possible business model  
> o   What tools, standards, recommendations, policies are still missing
> o   Collaboration/Governance models
> o   Role of large initiatives (NASA, NOAA, DataONE, ….)
> Not having been involved with this group, I am looking for guidance on whether this would be of interest, fits with the mission, or has been discussed before. 
> And I am looking for people interested in participating in such a session
> Thanks for any input
> Corinna
> NTL LTER Information Manager 
>  
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Ruth Duerr
Data Stewardship and Informatics Lead 
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science
University of Colorado at Boulder
(303) 735-0136
rduerr at nsidc.org

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