Transcript CENDI Federal STI Managers’ Group Presentation to Board on Research Data and Information Elliot Siegel CENDI Co-chair September 24, 2009

CENDI
Federal STI Managers’ Group
Presentation to
Board on Research Data and Information
Elliot Siegel
CENDI Co-chair
September 24, 2009
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A Long and Well Established History
of STI Cooperation
 1960s-1970s COSATI organized information,
information analysis, and data centers across
the federal government
– Weinberg report on Science, Government and
Information a major impetus (1964)
 Mid-1970s, COSATI was dissolved but STI
managers continued to meet informally
 1984 CENDI was formalized with an MOU of 4
(C,E,N,D) agencies
– NLM joined in 1986
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What is CENDI Today?
 Interagency group of senior federal STI managers
who agree to cooperate by
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Exchanging information and ideas
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Sharing resources
Undertaking joint initiatives
From policy to standards to operations
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 13 member agencies manage over 97% of the
annual federal R&D budget
 A listing of agencies is in brochure
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CENDI’s Mission and Goals
To help improve the productivity of federal science- and technology-based
programs through effective scientific, technical, and related information
support systems.
1. STI Coordination and Leadership: Provide
coordination and leadership for information
1. exchange on important STI policy issues.
2. Improvement of STI Systems: Promote the
development of improved STI systems through the
productive interrelationship of content and technology.
3. STI Understanding: Promote better understanding of
STI and STI management.
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CENDI Members
(Principals and
Alternates)
Partners and
Cooperating
Organizations
Multi-agency
Coordination
Activity
Secretariat
Copyright and
Intellectual Property
Working Group
Digitization Specifications
Harvesting & Metadata Extraction
Terminology
Image Metadata
R&D Needs Assessment
Science.gov
Alliance
Alliance Principals
Alliance Alternates
Content Management
Promotions
STI Policy
Working Group
Institutional Repositories
Research Needs and SBIRs
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FY09 Highlights of
Accomplishments
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Thought/Policy Leadership
 Prepared an STI White Paper that frames policy
challenges and opportunities
 Invited as observer to the House Science Committee
Roundtable on Open Access
 Leaders met with CENDI from Obama Transition Team,
Congressional Offices, OSTP, OMB and other groups to
share information and ideas because CENDI:
 Has been recognized for thought leadership
 Brings together the Senior Executives in charge of STI
programs across the Federal government
 Expertise and resources for STI management are at
the table
 Maintains extensive national and global networks 77
Information Partners with CENDI
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NSTC organizations – IWGDD TAG
 NAS/NRC BRDI – Continuing liaison
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ICSTI – New partnership formed
NFAIS – Continued successful workshops; partnership discussion
NKOS – successful joint meeting
DHS – cooperation in a study of models of STI Clearinghouses
ARL, SPARC – continuing policy information exchange
CNI – Continuing strategic planning information exchange
OCG Forum – Active participation with Copyright WG
FLICC Preservation and Digitization WG and Federal Agencies Digitization
Guidelines Initiative cooperation on monitoring digitization standards
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Successful Workshops and Information
Exchange
 Making the Web Work for Science: The Impact of e-Science and
Cyberinfrastructure (with NFAIS and FLICC) on 11/14/07
– 111 people from 54 organizations
 New Dimensions in Knowledge Organization Systems (with NKOS) on
9/11/08
– 90 attendees at World Bank
 Many special teleconferences and meeting sessions (Digitization,
Harvesting, Future of Bibliographic Control)
 Regular Agency Showcases
– Examples: GPO Federal Digital System; Authentication of Online
Federal Resources; NSF Find Reviewers Project; NAL 2.0 and Real
Information in Real Time
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Operational Contributions
 Copyright WG updates on Copyright FAQ and
FAQ on open Source Software in process
– CENDI Best Seller - 23,000+ downloads in 2009
 Publication of “Guide to Distribution Limitation
Markings of CENDI Agencies”
 Mapping of SKOS files across 3 agencies
 Legacy Collections Survey of material to be digitized by
CENDI agencies; comparison to FLICC survey
 Metadata schemes for images from 3 agencies mapped
with extended interest for ICSTI
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Science.gov’s Continued Success
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Annual source queries
exceed 17.3M
Named one of top-10 gov’t
web sites by GCN
Department of
Transportation added
Version 5 successfully
launched
Largest contributor to
WorldWideScience.org
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2010 ~
CENDI Initiatives Support
Agency and Administration
Priorities
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FY10 Work Plan Under Development
Policy
 TAG for the IWGDD
– Workshop(s) to Improve Scientific Data
Management for Government Agencies: EPA
Proposal
 Observer to Open Access Roundtable
 Members of Data.gov Sr. Advisory Council
 Discussions with OSTP on open
government
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Discussions with OSTP on Open Government
 Kalil and Noveck leads; CIO Council + CENDI
 Government labs for designing new platforms
for Open Gov
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Open peer review/expert networks
Open policy making
Open grant making
Open data platforms
Open problem solving
 Question to BRDI: how do we engage the
research community as well as federal research
managers?
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FY10 Work Plan Under Development
Technology
 Scientific Mash-ups – intersections among types
of data and information and across disciplines
 Web 3.0 Conference (November 17)
 DOIs for Data Sets (with ICSTI)
 Multi-media Search and Retrieval
 Interactive Journal Articles (with ICSTI)
 Question to BRDI: do these resonate with the
interests of the research community?
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FY10 Work Plan Under Development
Operations
 Task Group on Institutional Repositories
and Open Access (also Policy)
 Task Group on Research Needs and SBIRs
 Scientific Taxonomies and Terminologies
 Scientific Data Archiving
 Science,gov Inventory of Scientific Data Collections
 Scientists/Users Information Needs
– Impact of the NextGen
 Question to BRDI: how can we work together to
better understand user needs?
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Contact Information
 CENDI Chair: Ellen Herbst/NTIS
([email protected])
 CENDI Co-Chair: Dr. Elliot Siegel/NLM
([email protected])
 Executive Director: Bonnie Carroll/IIa
([email protected])
 Technical Projects Coordinator: Gail Hodge/IIa
([email protected])
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