Attendees: Amber, Bill Michener, Bob Cook, Matt, Dave Vieglais,Steph, Bruce , John Cobb
Regrets: Steve Kelling, Mike Frame, John Kunze, Todd Vision, Suzie (sent update by email)
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Agenda for 2011-05-20
1. Status on Plans for DUG Meeting (Budden)
Status of Travel Awards: Approx 25 awards of up to $1000 will be available to reimburse travel / accommodation costs. DataONE Leaders engaged in moderation / presentation at the meeting will have costs covered by DataONE. Invitees have until Tuesday to indicate their need for an award, decisions will be communicated by Friday (27th).
Accommodations: We have 25 rooms at the ESIP hotel (La Fonda) and have put another 25 on hold at the nearby El Dorado. Reservations have to be made (and extra rooms dropped) by June 13th so that we don't get charged.
Invitees: Three sets of invites went out. 1) Current DUG members 2) Individually identified future members 3) Generic email to all of ESIP. Category 2 included primarily data librarians, domain scientists and ITK developers suggested by the DUG chairs, Bill, Rebecca and CCIT. Additional USGS invitees suggested by Mike Frame.
'Registration' status: We have 29 people attending so far, some conditional on travel support.
Agenda:
Monday July 11th
DataONE information meeting: Open to all (by registration)
07.30 – 08.30 Breakfast
08.30 - 10.00 Session 1
· Welcome and Introductions: Robert Sandusky, Richard Huffine
· Meeting Objectives: Amber Budden
· Introduction to DataONE: Bill Michener
· Status of DataONE CI: Matt Jones
10.00 - 10.20 Coffee
10.20 - 12.00 Session 2: Breakout
· Breakout 1: DataONE Investigator Toolkit: What is it, how it will be used, proposed future developments, community feedback (prioritization of tools)
Bruce Wilson, Bob Cook
· Breakout 2: DataONE Education Resources: Current and future materials, mechanisms for training, community feedback
Viv Hutchison, Amber Budden
· Breakout 3: Citation and Preservation within the DataONE framework:
Matt Jones, John Kunze
12.00 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 Session 3: Breakout
· Breakout 1: DataONE Investigator Toolkit: What is it, how it will be used, proposed future developments, community feedback
Bruce Wilson, Bob Cook
· Breakout 2: DataONE Education Resources: Current and future materials, mechanisms for training, community feedback
Viv Hutchison, Amber Budden
· Breakout 3: Citation and Preservation within the DataONE framework:
Matt Jones, John Kunze
15.00 - 15.20 Coffee
15.20 – 16.30 Session 4: Report Back from Breakouts
16.30 – 17.30 Session 5: Process of becoming / adding a Member Node
Mike Frame, Bob Cook
Tuesday July 12th
DataONE DUG Meeting: Open to DUG members
07.00 – 08.00 Breakfast
08.00 – 08.30 Session 1
· Objectives and Logistics: Amber Budden
08.30 – 09.45 Session 2
· Member feedback on DataONE marketing materials: Trisha Cruse
09.45 – 10.15 Coffee
10.15 – 11.30 Session 3
· Member feedback on proposed mechanism for community input following public release: Mike Frame, Suzie Allard
11.30 – 13.00 DUG Business Meeting: Bob Sandusky, Richard Huffine
· Report from the Chairs
· Review of Charter?
· Chair nominations and voting
· Calendaring next meeting
2.Report on meetings with USGS (Michener)
USGS briefing went exceptionally well 16 high-level managers
Collaboration opportunities
6 MNs?
2-3 tools for the ToolKit plus outreach activities
Collaboration efforts key for both USGS & DataONE
August for next meeting to finalize details
Met with Irene Lombardo yesterday (OCI) - reverse site visit went extremely well and there
were no suggestions on how to do things better
OCI will be taking some significant budget cuts - long term support for DataONE is secure
new programs will probably take the cuts
Geosciences program officer - get DataONE listed as a EU/US collaboration project that will interact with LifeWatch
(Wouter on DUG) 6 names; WM,DV,RK,MJ,BW,
For a meeting to fleshout opportunities - a couple of years ahead of Life Watch
Met with Smithsonian - Eric Mata, Bob Corrigan, Cyndy Parr
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Opportunities for collaboration; core level is at species level - pages containing objects
Stable name index
Expect a letter from them soon expressing interest in becoming a MN and member of DUG
Willingness to share their name service with DataONE - be used to check for species name spellings, data related to species, etc Will be valuable for biodiversity and ecological researchers
EoL is experimenting with "virtual communities" as a mechanism of grouping content depending on the context of the user. The hierarchies and ontologies being developed *may* be useful for DataONE to assist with grouping / categorization of results in the Mercury interface.
EoL target new release of web system August 2011 - unlikely to integrate anything from DataONE prior to then.
Question: is EOL working with other name services of related projects?
Aggregating content from other name services - or at least were; something we can check on
3. Around the Room
Suzie: I was a participant in the Cyberinfrastructure for Collaborative Science Workshop organized by Hilmar, Mark S, and Ann Zimmerman (Michigan) at NESCent. Attendees included technologists, domain scientists and social scientists. Multiple synthesis centers/projects were represented – NIMBioS, NESCent, NSEAS, BioSynC, EnSynC, iPlant, ACEAS, Data Conservancy, and DataONE. Four NSF officers attended/participated Susan Winter, Mimi McClure, Peter McCartney, and Anne Maglia. The purpose of the workshop was to explore challenges facing CI development and strategies for moving forward on CI development such as building better ties between synthesis centers in a form of federation etc. Topics were identified by the group and included— fitting CI to the science, sustainability, products and processes of science, workforce development, mechanisms for encouraging/sustaining collaborations, etc. Most of what we discussed mirrored discussions we have had in DataONE — which suggests that we have done a good job identifying issues and building strategies. I'm happy to share more details with anyone who is interested.
Bruce: Back to being able to spend some time on DataONE issues. I don't have numbers yet, but I'm working to get quotes on the ORC hardware and looking at the budgets for getting some additional systems administration help here.
Amber: Nothing to add.
Steph: meeting with Shan Huang, DataONE intern, today. She is visiting from U Georgia - several of her Georgia colleagues are here for a working group, and I am hopeful that her project will benefit from that complementarity
Dave: nothing to add.
John:Nothing to add
Matt: nuttin'