Transcript Best Practices for Scientific Data Stewardship WG report

Best Practices for Scientific Data Stewardship
WG report for the eGY , March 13 2007
Eric A. Kihn, Ph.D.
NOAA/NGDC
World Data Center for Solar-Terrestrial Physics
What is Scientific Data Stewardship?
(SDS)
• “maintaining the science integrity and
long term utility of scientific records”
• “ the actions which maximize the
return on investment for archived
scientific data”
eGY’s role in SDS.
Providers
Providers
World
WorldData
DataCenter
Center
Providers
Users
Users
Providers
Providers
eGY’s
The WDC’s
role isrole
to document
is to collect,
andpreserve
communicate
and disseminate
best practices
data.
for scientific data steward ship throughout the emerging
infrastructure.
Best Practices
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Community Driven
Proven
Documented
Standards Based
Storage and Preservation
Ease of Use
Interoperability
Quality Information and Metadata
Data Availability
User Presentation
Attribution and Accountability
Electronic Data Preservation
Best Practices Portal
Portal cont.
The Way Forward
Mar 07
Start of On-line
Collaboration
July 07
Presentation of
Principles at IUGG
Aug 07
First workshop
Draft Paper(s)
Deliverables:
•Papers documenting best practices
•Gathered community feed back
•Example systems
What’s needed from the CODATA community:
More international members
Participation through electronic means (i.e. WIKI, e-mail)
Candidate “best practices” systems
Please contact: [email protected]
User Interactions/
Feedback
Mar 08
Second Workshop