Transcript CENDI INCREASING THE IMPACT OF FEDERALLY FUNDED SCIENCE Update to the Board of Research Data on Information Jerry Sheehan CENDI Deputy Chair September 23, 2013 FY13 Accomplishments.

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CENDI
INCREASING THE IMPACT OF
FEDERALLY FUNDED SCIENCE
Update to the
Board of Research Data on Information
Jerry Sheehan
CENDI Deputy Chair
September 23, 2013
FY13 Accomplishments
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What is CENDI?
• Interagency group of senior federal STI managers who agree to
cooperate by
• Exchanging information and ideas
• Sharing resources
• Undertaking joint initiatives
• From policy to standards to operations
• 15 member agencies from organizations that manage over 97%
of the Federal R&D budget
• Two formalized partnerships
• ICSTI
• NFAIS
• Many cooperating organizations
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CENDI’s Updated Mission and Goals
To increase the impact of federally funded
science and technology by improving the
management and dissemination of data and
information. CENDI provides a forum for
sharing expertise, promoting best practices in
information management, and developing and
executing collaborative projects.
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STI Coordination and Leadership
Improvement of STI Systems
STI Understanding (Training)
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FY13: A Year of Openness
• GPO and Department of Education return to CENDI
membership
• Technical meeting sessions opened to
other observers
• Focus on Public Access and White House Memo
• Increased attention to Big Data and Open Data
• Successful CENDI STI Data Jam [9/19/13]
• Culminating in FY13 Planning Meeting:
“Going Open! Challenges and Opportunities”
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CENDI Contributions to Public Access
Discussions
• Demonstrations of agency public access systems DOE, NAL, and NLM
• Engagement with senior Administration officials, e.g., Todd
Park (Federal CTO) and Mike Stebbins (OSTP)
• Regular updates on activities of interagency working groups.
• Frequent meetings, discussions, papers to inform Members’
thinking
• Member participation in OSTP interagency working groups
• Interactions with other groups involved in the discussion:
BRDI, ARL, SPARC, CNI, NIST, NITRD
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Increasing Focus on Data
• “Big Data: What You Need to Know Now!”
– CENDI/NFAIS/FLICC workshop was successfully
held December 2012. Hosted by FLICC.
– Attended by 112 people from 66 organizations.
• CENDI members participate in OSTP Interagency
WG on Digital Data
– CENDI discussions and work papers inform the process
• Presentations from Research Data Alliance (Alan Blatecky
and Fran Berman), Data.gov (Marina Martin ), NITRD
(Faisal D’Souza) and NSF (Howard Wactlar )
• Expand interactions with data community
– Continue relations with BRDI, RDA, and CODATA
– Invited data community members as guests to July meeting
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CENDI Copyright WG
• Copyright glossary provided to OSTP
Interagency WG on Publications.
• White paper on Mass Digitization
CENDI
2008-1
– address gaps related to digitization of
government information in Copyright Office.
white paper
• Continued work on “Permissions –
Government Produced and
Non-Government Produced Works: Best
Practices for U.S. Government Agencies”
• Copyright FAQ maintained as a “Best Seller”
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Science.gov Celebrates 10th Anniversary
• Resources from 15 federal agencies
• Science.gov searches 59 databases and
more than 2,250 websites
• Added several large multi-media
databases
• 1.3 M unique queries/year
• Mobile usage growing
• Ciencia.gov usage increased 4x between
June and July
• Innovative Use of Social Media
• Trivia Campaign tweets questions twice each
week
– Re-tweeted by PBS, AAAS, NPR, Popular
Science, EurekAlert, American Institute of Physics
and agencies
Q: Which is older, the
National Library of Medicine,
or its parent federal agency,
the National Institutes of
Health?
A: The National Library of
Medicine is 51 years older
than the National Institutes of
Health
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Plans for FY14 (In Process)
• Implementation of public access –
publications and data
• Issues around data –
– Data-publication linking
– Partnerships
• 2013 Workshop on “Open Science” (November 12, 2013)
• Follow up to Jam – an STI Data “Palooza”
• Science.gov
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Implementation of Public Access
• Facilitate interagency cooperation
and information exchange
• “Repository” best practices
• Facilitate interaction with other stakeholders
• Consider role of Science.gov entry point to agency systems?
• Copyright WG contributions to
discussions of access and re-use rights
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Data Management - Topics of Interest
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Repositories – approaches to systems design and preservation
Hosting/archiving datasets as a service
Management of multi-media (A-V, etc.)
Metadata for locators
Data management plans – important elements
Data sensitivity issues, e.g., human subjects
Supporting tools and infrastructure, e.g.,
– Persistent identifiers
– Author identifiers
– Funding source acknowledgements
• Training, education, workforce
• Build capacity for data management & curation
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Thank You!!
For More Information: http://www.cendi.gov
CENDI Chair: Don Hagen/NTIS CENDI Co-Chair: Jerry Sheehan/NLM
([email protected])
([email protected])
Science.gov Alliance Co-chairs:
Tina Gheen/LOC
([email protected])
Mary Moulton/DOT
([email protected])
Executive Director: Bonnie Carroll/IIa
([email protected])
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