17 April 2012
Attendees: Bill, Rebecca, Amber, Steph, Suzie, Trisha
Motivation:
Many inquiries about becoming a Member Node
2 dozen are Metacat
Mercury MNs (how many?) other NASA facilities? --BEW: no other NASA EOSDIS data centers are using Mercury, for what that's worth, although Mercury has harvested the Land Processes DAAC metadata / links to the LP DAAC's holdings (RC).
Generic Member Nodes (GMN) - how many?
EAB has strongly suggested that DataONE get as many MNs online ASAP for purposes of longevity
First Principle:
Select MNs for joining DataONE based on number of instantiations
Second Principle
Select MNs based on quantity and quality of data
Third Principle
Select high-profile MNs
Fourth Principle
Select pragmatically - knowing that there are resources and enthusiasm to complete the tasks
Fifth Principle
Select MNs based on their abilitty to contribute to long-term sustainability
Sixth Principle
Select MNs that are diverse and geographically distributed so that we cover a range of MN types and globally distributed nodes (has implications for need for global CNs)
Seventh Principle
Select based on showing exemplars for what we want DataONE to be.
Winners:
Metacat (24+/-)
Mercury instantiations (?) -- BEW: could look to IABIN, possibly CDIAC, possibly wind energy data @ORNL
Merritt (4) {includes Excel node}
DuraSpace/Fedora - check with MacKenzie Smith (?)
USGS MNs (?) - where can we look to stay up to date with USGS Member Node candidates? (deborah at RPI is interested in keeping up as a result of her work on water quality monitoring and general semantically enabled monitoring)
Dataverse out of Harvard for social science data (?) http://thedata.org/
US Global Change Research Program and National Climate Data Centers
NASA/NOAA/USDA
Smithsonian (Fedora instance with Drupal on top)
i-Rods
OKFN (Open Knowledge Foundation)
Open DAP
PANGAEA
TERN
http://mule1.dataone.org/OperationDocs/membernodes.html
Also: be sure to maintain differentiation between SW technology (Fedora, iRODS, ...) and projects/repositories.