Key Milestones:
·       Continue to develop and evaluate SeaIce.
·       Further develop preservation policy/documentation.
·       Seek additional support (hopefully grant funding).
·       Disseminate findings to the DataONE community and the broader scholarly and scientific community.
 
Goals for year 5:
·       Year 5 2013/2014 – Continue developing and experimenting with SeaIce, Metadictionary (http://seaice.herokuapp.com/).  Further develop heuristics for term class (canonical, vernacular, and deprecated), voting impacts, and activity intervals.
o   Jane is integrating the use of SeaIce into her core class, INLS 520, Organization of Information.
o   New SILS/UNC  doctoral student, Deborah Maron, is also experimenting with SeaIce and will help develop module for testing
o   PAMWG user sub-group [Jane lead] will continue to develop user scenarios.
o   PAMWG technical sub-group [John lead] will continue to expand and test technology.  Nassib Nassar, UNC, is able to devote a percentage of his work-time to continuing the work of this summer’s DataONE intern, Christopher Patton.
·       Summer/fall 2013 – Submit results of Murillo, et al, study from previous DataONE internship to PLOS jrnl.
·       Year 5 2013/2014Explore funding/grant options (NSF, IMLS, potentially SLOAN).  Looking specifically at NSF RCN’s as one option, although less enthusiastic at the moment than we were initially; an IMLS Laura Busch award option has emerged, in coordination w/Drexel and Catholic U., due Dec. 31, 2013.  Grant options may also emerge more concretely via RDA.
·       Year 5 2013/2014 – Continue with documentation of preservation activities.  The Dryad Preservation WG (http://wiki.datadryad.org/Preservation_working_group_2013), and earlier work this year on replication w/in DataONE are helping to inform this work.  This fall, we need to revisit this work more concretely, as your efforts have focused more on SeaIce this year.  PAMWG recognizes the need to pursue this and also integrate in PID activities.  PAMWG members, John Kunze, Jane Greenberg, and Angela Murillo will be at iPRES, and this will allow for the WG to meet and re-work plans in this area.