Preservation and Stewardship Committee Telecon 2013-05-13

1. PCCS discussion

• submit an article to http://dlib.org

• Need to schedule a followup telecon

• Notes from telecon - http://goo.gl/1elVU

• Originally set deadline of May 15 - but discussion is about pushing date back to 6/1, with draft to review on telecon June 24.

2. Data Quality Discussion   

• Cancel May 20 telecon

• Discussion of what’s next during summer meeting - find someone to be a champion

• If there’s no champion, drop for now

• Bruce B. - comments about RDA efforts focusing on biomedical, would be good to have more ES and large datasets, etc; NSF has a call out about this

• Mark P - peer review models around data publication. ESIP doesn’t necessarily need to jump in, but we should interface with others if we do.

• Bruce B - some push for IT solutions from particular disciplines, makes for difficulty on promoting standards

3. Data Collection Structure   

• Notes from telecon:  http://goo.gl/IAL5D

• Presentations from Ruth, Denise, Curt, Bruce (links to presentations, where available, within the notes)

• Next telecon on June 17, with some action items from specific people

• Mark - has question about what the ultimate goal of this effort?

• Bruce - helps with standards organization, repackagings, etc

• Mark - seems like there’s a diverse range here - questions of reference vs. equivalence; or querying. What’s the end game? Recs for references, for querying (semantic approach), for discovery?

• Rama - querying might fall more under Discovery cluster rather that Stewardship

• Bruce - how people find the data is important to understand what sort of stewardship might be necessary

4. Identifiers discussion   

• Notes: ??

• Only Curt, Ruth, Steve O., and Tyler called in

• Group not large enough to pursue next steps

• RDA has group on PIDs - if not enough interest here, may just refer to RDA group

• Anne W. - still interested, is there a list of what we were interested in?

  • Yes, in the Data Stewardship Activity Planning document  http://goo.gl/55eTO

• Bob D also still interested but was unable to attend telecon

• Mark P - RDA group is called Persistent Identifier Types. Several things in RDA go along with ESIP activities

  • Ruth came up with idea of LIAISONS between ESIP Data Stewardship community to relevant RDA groups

  • People are making standards, etc., with focus on their own group without seeing what is beyond their own domain

  • The cleverness of ESIP needs to get pushed into the wider world, a broader global context, both within and beyond Earth Science

  • Link to RDA PID forum:  http://forum.rd-alliance.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25

• Rama - what would be useful would be if PCCS were reexamined, an exercise on what needs identifiers

• Ruth - very important to move forward

• Anne - potential volunteer. Anne and Mark will discuss

• Please comment on RDA citation case statement http://forum.rd-alliance.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=87

5. PCCS Opinion article describing motivation   

• Notes from telecon: http://goo.gl/4OIvv

• Working Draft: http://goo.gl/w797O

• Will have next telecon last week of May/first week of June (doodle poll is at http://www.doodle.com/i3ic85y6u5psmts2 )

• Discussed options of where to send article (tentatively set to Science)

• Brief article on what it is, why it’s important, and who’s responsible for what part

6. DDS activities   

• Telecon notes/materials: http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Telecon_04.25.13_materials  

• Working on Panel Discussion for summer meeting

• Draft of abstract

• Draft list of potential invitees

• Anne will send out a list to “vote” on potential invitees, compile results, and then invite people in order

(Denise here - got booted from the webex right near the end, so missed a bit)

Continue the discussion! We’re over time - and didn’t even get to past agenda item 1. Defer remaining items until next time.