Difference between revisions of "Workshop May 2007 day2 questions"

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Theme 1: Promoting participation

• We'd like more ideas for promoting participation and ease-of-use - what would makes deposition attractive for depositors?
• What functionality would make data more valuable, usable, that a SSR could implement?
• What uses for the data in a SSR should be promoted, apart from simple download and reanalysis? (Virtual Observatory as a model)
• Services to provide
• Mechanisms of encouraging compliance with policies in the absence of legal force.

Theme 2: Lessons learned from other projects

• Other role models for small science repositories
  • Who can we learn from, and what lessons do we take from them?
  • What other sites/institutions are doing something really well?
  • Can we further clarify the community-source model?
• Pros and cons of funding models such as institutional or society subscriptions, pay-for-submission, pay-for-access, and how they can be combined.
• It would be useful to have a list of existing repositories to pick through and evaluate
• What are the processes that can be ported from existing archives in their institutional context?

What other groups to tap into, like the Science Commons, SPARC OpenData, iAssist?

• Useful links
  • Ecological Archives
  • 50 hectare plot data
  • Brain museum
  • Comparative placental anatomy
  • ICPSR
  • BioCASE
  • BioCorder
  • caBIO
  • CHRONOS
  • CODATA
  • Conservation Commons
  • Digital Library for Earth Systems Education (DLESE)
  • GEON
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
  • Journal of Applied Econometrics Data Archive
  • Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)
  • Marine Metadata Initiative
  • NOAA paleoclimatology center
  • OCHRE
  • Odum Institute (UNC)
  • OpenContext
  • Virtual Data Center for Social Science
  • Virtual Observatory
  • NOAA World Data Center System

Theme 3: Architecture

• Who houses stuff, both records and identifiers?
  • what needs to be identifiable?
  • who would be authorities?
• Is it productive to process full-text for automated generation of 'context' metadata?
• A key decision in CiteSeer was to store a local copy and not depend on remote copies. Does this make sense for a SSR handshaking with, say, an image dB?
• Is everyone in agreement with the 'don't compete with Google' conclusion from yesterday.
• What are the pros and cons of DOIs, handles, other identifiers?
• Data and applications: where does the complexity belong?
  • simple data with complex applications?
  • complex data with simple applications?
  • data and applications with a complex schema in between
• What sort of metadata is important independent of the publications that reference it?
• How does death fit into the metadata lifecycle?
• How to nurture the bottom-up growth of data standards?