Commons Governance minutes

Operational behavior of the Commons: content types/ area structures/ workshop materials

• how do we manage identifiers
• thoughts to the mission or vision
• Second half of the mission is almost there

Attributes for how the commons will operate

• understanding that content is targeted towards broader audience
• permanent record it is not- but persistent record
• ?tagging scheme
• browse-ability tags of access
• attribute additions- comment ability
• Carol- is this a descriptive tool or part of a vision statement
• Chris-Best Visions are short and sweet
• attributes are distilled down into brief and compelling

Starting the wording for the vision statement

• capturing community knowledge through -the trusted leader in earth science information
• something short and direct for vision
• Vision: Karl- redefining the boundaries of publishing- doesn't match goal of ESIP separating the tech side from the out come of the Commons
• Carol: what is different about it- capturing knowledge that wouldn't otherwise be published grey literature-This is not business as usual- works in progress- 
• ESIP Commons published the full breadth of knowledge generated by the ESIP community shared within the federation to advance earth science informatics
• K: Preserves and organizes: search, browse, ongoing discussion- capture of quality representing ongoing value of materials or knowledge/ Captures and organizes the breadth of knowledge
• Carol: shared? may not be the best word- sharing its knowledge
• community or breadth

moving to google docs document:

• Rahul- is this as much a publishing arm- or … new documentation tool importance from research community- notion of publication
• Note for future (Reid-task) add to the list of governance- tagging member vs. non…
• we can tag member affiliation without stating member in vision
• how to reflect tagging and commenting ?social? not social
• Carol - we don't need the support of the informatics community
• In the mission we talk about the open, curated, sharing with thte broader community- Do that not just for the sake of the community, but to share with others
• Karl: Broad community of users…Meeting capture piece- discussion? is it in there?
• Rahul- it is enabled - we don't have control over whether people use it
• Carol: dynamic resource- changing content dynamic place, not just contributions but keeps the conversation going
• Rahul- systematically rather than organize- systematically applies and simplifies
• publishes the breadth of knowledge/ breath of content- diversity of content/ "diverse content contributed by" not supporting, but sharing
• content or knowledge- knowledge is not as broad- keeps the material broad

Karl: copy and pasting into wiki: closing google document-

current draft: The ESIP Commons is a participatory platform that systematically captures, publishes and shares diverse content contributed by the ESIP Federation.

Next Meeting will be Friday October 5, 2012 at the same time 2pm EST.