Old:December 2006 Workshop Plans

December Meeting

• Date: Dec 5, 2006
• Time: ?
• Place: NESCent

Participants

• Kathleen Smith
• NESCent-MRC DRIADE team
• Michael Whitlock (American Naturalist)
• Don Waller (SSE)
• Mark Rausher (Evolution)
• Marcy Uyenoyama (MBE)
• Bob Peet (to discuss the experience of Ecology)
• Others?

Objective

• To inform the society and journal reps of our plans to date
• To discuss how to gather requirements.

Agenda

• (Uncertain until we have a better idea of the length of the meeting)
• Todd & Hilmar: Known and unknown requirements to date, and plans for two workshops
• Jane: The landscape of data repositories, and what will be needed from societies and journals

March Meeting

Potential participants

• NESCent-MRC people
• Matt Jones (SEEK)
• Sarah & Eric Kanza (OpenContext) & Ahrash Bissell (OpenContext, Duke)
• ? (CIESEN)
• Lagoze? (OAI)
• ? (Marine Metadata Initiative)
• ? (Odum Institute) – sustainability, heterogenous ingest
• Tom Hammond (Conservation Commons)
• John Willbanks, (Science Commons, GBIF) – IP, metadata standards
• David Schloen (OCHRE)?
• Bruce Bauer (World Data Center for Paleoclimatology)
• Val Tannen (Data integration, Treebase)
• ? (Genbank)
• Greg Ricardo (Morphbank)
• Emilia Martins (EthBase)
• ? (NSF Cyberinfrastructure)

Potential floaters

• C. Lynch
• J. Kim
• R. Page

Goals

1. Obtain guidance on design features covering all aspects of the OAIS model: Ingest—receipt and verification of records; Archival Storage—secure storage of records; Data Management—secure management of records; Administration—management of internal and external relations; Preservation—management of record integrity and security over time; and Access—provision of records in response to user queries.

2. Particular areas of concern

Management issues

• How would the system be administered?
• How can depositors be incentivized?
• How would the system be sustainably funded?
• What intellectual property policies need to be put into place?

System architecture issues

• What is the role for bona fide data federation/integration technology?
• What is the (meaning of and) need for a trusted repository?
• What is the role of distributed/grid storage?

User interface and interoperability issues

• How to synchronize ingestion with journal publication and 3rd-part database deposition?
• How to enable harvesting of data by 3rd-parties (e.g. OAI-MHP)?
• What should be the functionality of the interface to the centralized registry?
• What metadata is required an how to generate it (Dublin Core, DDI-lite, EML, standards imposed by specialized repositories)?

Hilmar's notes, to be integrated as appropriate

• Raw data in repositories or processed data only? Spreadsheet data?
• Central or distributed repositories? Or virtual repository only (similar to GBIF)?
• Role of data integration?
• What types of metadata standards and metadata types do we want to capture/store?
  Not sure this shouldn't be decided by us before? --Hlapp 11:40, 10 November 2006 (EST)
• Do we need to plan for metdata lifeycle management, and to what extent?
• Should the system be capable of metadata generation, and if so to what extent, with how much human review?

Provisional agenda

Day 1:

• Introductions and presentation of objectives
• Refine, as a group, tasks for the breakout sessions.
• Three concurrent breakout sessions over lunch and into early afternoon, with short chalktalks relevant to each topic followed by focused discussion on the breakout tasks.
• Break
• Late afternoon breakout group summaries

Day 2:

• Three concurrent morning breakout sessions, again with short chalktalks relevant to each topic followed by focused discussion on the breakout tasks.
• Lunch
• 1-2 hour large group discussion
• Writing of recommendations