Transcript Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society Chuck Romine (NIST), Co-chair Interagency Working Group on Digital Data (IWGDD) September 24, 2009 NATIONAL.

Harnessing the Power of Digital
Data for Science and Society
Chuck Romine (NIST), Co-chair
Interagency Working Group on Digital Data (IWGDD)
September 24, 2009
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Key Background to Where We Are Today*
* There are many reports that cover scientific data, and
are precursors to the IWGDD effort.
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Key Characteristics of the
Digital Data Landscape
• The products of science and the starting point for
new research are increasingly digital and
increasingly “born-digital”;
• Exploding volumes and rising demand for data use
are driven by the rapid pace of digital technology
innovations;
• All sectors of society are stakeholders in digital
preservation and access; and
• A comprehensive framework for cooperation and
coordination to manage the risks to preservation of
digital data is missing.
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IWGDD Overview
• CO-CHAIRS: Chris Greer (OSTP) and
Chuck Romine (NIST)
• 22+ active participating agencies
• CHARGE: To develop and promote the
implementation of a strategic plan for the
Federal government to cultivate an open
interoperable framework to ensure reliable
preservation and effective access to digital
data for research, development, and
education in science, technology, and
engineering.
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Progress Timeline
(not to scale)
August: IWG Formed
2007 – June 08: Subgroup work on Framework Components
2008: Report Drafting and Review
Report Issued Jan 09
Subgroup work on policies and Plans
October: New COS Meets
2006
2007
2008
2009
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IWGDD Report (January 2009)
http://www.nitrd.gov/About/Harnessing_Power.aspx
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Our Vision
We envision a digital scientific data universe
in which data creation, collection,
documentation, analysis, preservation, and
dissemination can be appropriately, reliably,
and readily managed.
This will enhance the return on our nation’s
research and development investment by
ensuring that digital data realize their full
potential as catalysts for progress in our
global information society.
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Strategy
• Create a comprehensive framework of
transparent, evolvable, extensible policies
and management and organizational
structures that provide reliable, effective
access to the full spectrum of public digital
scientific data.
• This framework will be a driving force for
American leadership in science and in the
competitive global information society
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Report Recommendations
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Create an NSTC Subcommittee
Appropriate departments and agencies lay
foundations for agency digital scientific data
policy
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Agency designation of a Senior Data Policy
Official responsible for this policy
Make the policy publicly available
Agencies promote a data management
planning process for projects that generate
preservation data
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Activity Subgroups
• Agency Science Data Policies
examine issues on development of
publicly-available science data policy
statements for all appropriate agencies
and departments.
• Data Management Plans examine
issues in development of policies for the
inclusion of data management plans in
proposals and project plans.
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A Revolution in Science
Empowered by an array of new digital technologies,
science in the 21st century will be conducted in a fully
digital world. In this world, the power of digital
information to catalyze progress is limited only by the
power of the human mind. Data are not consumed by
the ideas and innovations they spark but are an
endless fuel for creativity. A few bits, well found, can
drive a giant leap of creativity. The power of a data
set is amplified by ingenuity through applications
unimagined by the authors and distant from the
original field.
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Ocean Example
NOAA’s DART™
Tsunami Monitoring Buoys
As part of the U.S. National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP),
NOAA has developed and placed Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of
Tsunamis (DART™) stations in regions with a history of generating
destructive tsunamis to ensure early detection of tsunamis and to acquire
support real-time warnings. Currently DART™ stations are deployed and
active in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the Caribbean Sea, and the
Gulf of Mexico.
The tsunami-related data archive has grown from 5 gigabytes to over 1,700
gigabytes of data with standards-compliant metadata available online
supporting the modeling, mapping, and assessment activities required to
minimize the effect of tsunami.
Source: http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/Dart/dart_home.html
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Questions?
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