Transcript CENDI Federal STI Managers’ Group Update to the Board of Research Data on Information Lisa Weber, NARA CENDI Chair January 31, 2012

CENDI
Federal STI Managers’ Group
Update to the
Board of Research Data on Information
Lisa Weber, NARA
CENDI Chair
January 31, 2012
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What is CENDI?
• 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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• 12 member agencies from organizations that manage
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over 97% of the Federal R&D budget
Two formalized partnerships
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ICSTI
NFAIS
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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.
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STI Coordination and Leadership
Improvement of STI Systems
STI Understanding
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CENDI Interests in Data and Information
Policy
• Continued Development of the Grand
Challenge: i-Science2Jobs
• Value and Impact of Scientific Data and
Information Management
• Continued Development of Connections with
Policy Leaders and Initiatives
• Repositories as part of STI Knowledge
Infrastructure
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CENDI Grand Challenge
i-Science2Jobs
• Vision
• Science.gov platform
• Buy-in with related Communities of
Practice
• Increase visibility
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Value and Impact of Scientific
Data
• Pursuing the Value Proposition for CENDI
members and our programs
• Involving other Communities of Practice in the
information value chain
– Tech Transfer
– StarMetrics
• Opportunity with BRDI to use forum results as
input for future meeting to explore metrics
and impacts
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Connections with Policy Leaders
and Initiatives
• National Science Board Task Force on
Scientific Data
• NSF/NITRD, NIST National Computer
Laboratory
• Office of Science and Technology Policy
Interagency Working Groups
• Invitation to new Federal CIO
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Repositories as Part of STI
Knowledge Infrastructure
• Repositories in Science and Technology: Preserving Access to
the Record of Science workshop held November, 2011
• Sold out successful workshop
• Examples of different business models for repositories: data and
text, institutional and disciplinary, government supported and
private sector
• Possible outcome was a social media discussion about:
• Interest to continue inter-sector cooperation in repository
development
• NIST proposal for repository interoperability standards
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For More CENDI Information
• www.cendi.gov
• CENDI Chair: Lisa Weber/NARA
([email protected])
• CENDI Co-Chair: Jerry Sheehan/NLM
([email protected])
• Executive Director: Bonnie Carroll/IIA
([email protected])
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Additional Information about
CENDI
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CENDI MEMBERS
• 12 Federal Government agencies
• National libraries, departmental STI
centers, cross cutting information
organizations, research funding programs
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CENDI Members
(Principals and
Alternates)
Observers and
Cooperating
Organizations
Multi-agency
Coordination
Activity
Copyright and
Intellectual Property
Working Group
Digitization Specifications
Terminology Resources in a
Networked Environment
Automated Harvesting of Metadata
Semantic Technologies
Web harvesting and crawling
Secretariat
Science.gov
Alliance
Alliance Principals
Alliance Alternates
Content Management
Promotions
STI Policy
Working Group
Institutional Repositories
Personally Identifiable
Information (PII)
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Science.gov’s Continued Success
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Annual source queries exceed 44M
Named one of Top 10 Government Websites by GCN.
RSS feeds from 11 federal agencies compiled and displayed in real time
Internships and fellowships section
made searchable
Image search
New databases added
Library Journal named Science.gov
as a 2006 Top Web Reference
Science.gov model used to launch
Worldwidescience.org
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