28 August 2012
Sustainability & Governance Working Group
Berkeley, CA
https://www.dropbox.com/home/DataONE%20sustainability
Attendees: Dave Vieglais, John Cobb, Martha Bedard, Carol Tenopir, Abby Smith Rumsey, Bob Cook, Trisha Cruse, Rebecca Koskela, Carly Strasser, Amber Budden, Kim Thanos,
MacKenzie Smith, Suzie Allard, Bill Michener
Welcome participants and introduce the meeting.
· Welcome to the meeting
· Ask each participant to briefly introduce himself/herself
· Share impetus – why this focus at this time?
By the end of year 5, funding is cut from $20M to $10M and need to determine the focus for DataONE and initiate the avenues for additional funding. Insights from Abby and MacKenzie led to DataONE is a complex beast and the pieces may be marketable. Need to define what DataONE is and where to put the effort. Weren’t ready to bring in a business consultant yet for a business plan. This is an intermediate step of strategic planning to determine what the focus should be. Personnas were background material but this is a new opportunity to review stakeholder perspective.
Metrics from the PMP –
Truncated the day so no emails during exercises
Kim Thanos: intro:
- What is the sustainable funding approach for DataONE
- Which elements of the DataONE offering that are the critical drivers for sustainability
- What is needed to most effectively operationalize the sustainability approach?
Tuesday morning: Stakeholder Needs
Important to look at this from the viewpoint of the stakeholder and not from the DataONE
perspective
Tuesday afternoon: The DataONE Offering
Wednesday morning: Synthesize, Prioritize
Wedndnesday afternoon: Community Collaboration
Thursday: Validation and Next Steps
Stakeholder Needs
- Researcher
- Data Center Director/ Project lead
- University Librarian / VP of Research
- Funder
Researcher & Data Center Director/Project Lead
- Amber Budden, Facilitator
- Suzie Allard
- John Cobb
- Bob Cook
- Abby Smith Rumsey
- Dave Vieglais
- Carly Strasser
Univerversity Librarian/VP of Research & Funder
- Rebecca Koskela,
- Bill Michener
- Martha Bedard
- Carol Tenopir
- Trisha Cruse
- MacKenzie Smith
http://Secure.Facilitate.com
Username: DataONE
Password: data
(not case sensitive)
What are the primary issues for this stakeholder?
- -Consider goals and aspirations
- What is keeping him/her awake at night (The stakeholders arepeople - what are her/his motivation?)
- Independant of DataONE
Breakout Groups: in
Researcher/ Data Center/project lead:
Current reseracher versus future researcher (we are in a changing environment)
Problems vs. opportuniities
What about other academic
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CoTd2CCCXIxDP3KBot8hiFlhua8itMB88IlsYZ7HVcs/edit?pli=1#slide=id.g1b86011a_2_87
Librarian/CP and Funder
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CI Data Tools Community Big Data
Projects
Uniquely provided by DataONE?
Best provided by DataONE?
What other providers are
contributing?
Which issues address most
effectively?
What is missing in offering?
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Bill's presentation
Common thread:
Enabling layer
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Offerings:
CN
MN
ITK
Community
What elements of the offering address my issues?
VP Research & Librarian:
1. Budget:
- Provides a way for institutions to engage in these new initatives without a large budget
- Access to data -
- When to build your own and when do you outsource?
- Make sure their research is widely distributed
- Unique: vertical integration of the piece of the pie
- The organization itself - the diversity of the community
2. Workforce:
DataONE as a model - does help with the issue
3. Credit/Value:
Does help with the relevance issue
Another measure of impact
Would like the discovery layer for all the different domains
4. Risk Management:
Does help with the compliance issue (DMPTool)
5. Governance/Decision Making
Model for collaboration
Helps the access issue - but this is not one of the issues
Does it solve the issue of where faculty & researchers can put data? No
Unless the institution becomes a MN - then it helps with the preservation
Would selecting DuraSpace as one of the next MNs help?
Only solves the problem within a particular domain - again the use of DataONE as a model
Voice for advocacy
Library as matchmaker - place for researchers to put their data
DSpace may not be the long-term solution for a variety of disciplines
Funders:
ROI
Roles & Responsibilities
Wants to add MNs to get more exposure for their data
Tools in the ITK
Community: have people working for the funder attend DUG and find a broader perspective
What does it mean to sustain DataONE?
What is the cost of sustaining DataONE?
Through citation tracking can show ROI
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- What is the sustainable funding approach for DataONE?
- Which elements of the DataONE offering are the critical drivers for sustainability?
- What is needed to most effectively operationalize the sustainability approach?
Craft specific recommendations for sustainability including funding source and offering/emphasis to draw funds
Funders
Librarians & VP Research - allocation of existing budget/ new funding
Data Center/Project Lead - continuation of funding/ new funding
What has to be sustained?
Managed services?
Opportunity to aggregate short-term funding toward long-term strategy
What/Where are the "pockets" where we may look for $'s
- Personal Influence - researchers as champions.
- NSF
- track record
- Relationships
- Discussion about sustainability
- IMLS (Institute of Museum and library services) student support = education
- ARL (association of research libraries) has been supportive
- MN's
- Volunteer effort
- Volunter participation
- In Kind support - USGS, ESA
- USGS
- Foundations - some indirect support such as for bird study and MSFT research (DataUP)
- Coordinating nodes are also contributing as well.
What is needed?
- User help desk support
- Sys admin support for CN (3X PT)
- Developer support
- Administrative Support
- accounting (PT)
- Business/reporting
- Leadership
- Science support
- HW
29 August: afternoon
DataUp
Opportunities
CDL Request CDL & DataONE
guide Opensource community
Microsoft Dev
DataONE Proof of concept
Community
at large customization
Azure -
ONEShare
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Community access
- Letter of support
- aligned with community
- open source
- Integrate
- Licensing
- Need doc to explain how to contribute to the ITK
- May need to differentiate OS vs fee-based
- More complex - need to account for many ranges of players
- privacy policies
- Brand & recognition
- suggest talking points for recognition
- Define expected behaviors
- Conversations about expectations of behavior
- Member Nodes
- Coordinating Nodes
- Tool contributions
- Goals of community engagement
Range of ways that tool development can be supported
Day 2 discussion googledoc
http://bit.ly/OykMCr
30 August 2012
Other funding sources (see dropbox)
Risks