From hpiwowar at gmail.com  Tue May  3 15:52:04 2011
From: hpiwowar at gmail.com (Heather Piwowar)
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 12:52:04 -0700
Subject: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?
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Hi Aletia,

To echo the points raised by others and support your observations, I thought
I'd point you to a quick-and-dirty thematic assembly of excerpts from all
the NSF guidelines, in case it is helpful:

http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/revised-nsf/

Particularly the "What is considered ?data?/research results covered by this
policy ?"  section.

Some of the directorates are quite specific.... but others aren't.  I agree,
I hope the guidelines are updated as the policies become more clear through
use!

Cheers,
Heather

--
Heather Piwowar

DataONE postdoc with NESCent and Dryad
  studying research data sharing and reuse
  remotely from Dept of Zoology, UBC, Vancouver Canada
http://researchremix.org
@researchremix <http://twitter.com/#!/researchremix>




On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Aletia Morgan <ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu>wrote:

> Good morning!
>
> I appreciate everyone?s comments ? especially seeing that some of the
> instructions from the different directorates are different.  And Sherry, I
> am in full agreement with you that a lot of the written requirements are
> just too vague at this point ? I hope that NSF will post updates in the
> not-too-distant future.
>
>
>
> I think this kind of clarification of intent will continue to be a topic
> for some time?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aletia
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> *Aletia Morgan**
> **Research Application Designer
> **Office of the Vice President for Research
>    and Graduate & Professional Education
> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
> 715 CoRE Building, Busch Campus*
>
> *ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu
> 732-445-3344
>
> *
>
>
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From ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu  Wed May  4 12:12:25 2011
From: ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu (Aletia Morgan)
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:12:25 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?
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Heather - thank you for sharing this!  

 

As I'm reading this, the following point stuck out:

 

"What data are not included at the basic level? The Office of Management
and Budget statement (1999) specifies that this definition does not
include "preliminary analyses, drafts of scientific papers, plans for
future research, peer reviews, or communications with colleagues." Raw
data fall into this category as "preliminary analyses.""  ENG

 

By this then, the project I was wondering about would not apply, since the
key purpose includes "plans for future research.communication with
colleagues".  So then no DMP would be required, beyond stating that it
does not apply.

 

Does this make sense?

 

 

Thanks,

Aletia

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Aletia Morgan
Research Application Designer
Office of the Vice President for Research 
   and Graduate & Professional Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
715 CoRE Building, Busch Campus

aletia.morgan at rutgers.edu
732-445-3344



 

From: rdap-bounces at asis.org [mailto:rdap-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of
Heather Piwowar
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 3:52 PM
To: Research Data, Access and Preservation
Subject: Re: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?

 

Hi Aletia, 

 

To echo the points raised by others and support your observations, I
thought I'd point you to a quick-and-dirty thematic assembly of excerpts
from all the NSF guidelines, in case it is helpful:

 

http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/revised-nsf/

 

Particularly the "What is considered "data"/research results covered by
this policy ?"  section.

 

Some of the directorates are quite specific.... but others aren't.  I
agree, I hope the guidelines are updated as the policies become more clear
through use!

 

Cheers, 

Heather

 

--

Heather Piwowar


DataONE postdoc with NESCent and Dryad

  studying research data sharing and reuse
  remotely from Dept of Zoology, UBC, Vancouver Canada
http://researchremix.org
@researchremix <http://twitter.com/#!/researchremix> 

 





On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Aletia Morgan <ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu>
wrote:

Good morning!

I appreciate everyone's comments - especially seeing that some of the
instructions from the different directorates are different.  And Sherry, I
am in full agreement with you that a lot of the written requirements are
just too vague at this point - I hope that NSF will post updates in the
not-too-distant future.  

 

I think this kind of clarification of intent will continue to be a topic
for some time.

 

Thanks,

Aletia

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Aletia Morgan
Research Application Designer
Office of the Vice President for Research 
   and Graduate & Professional Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
715 CoRE Building, Busch Campus

ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu
732-445-3344

 

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From hpiwowar at gmail.com  Wed May  4 12:35:43 2011
From: hpiwowar at gmail.com (Heather Piwowar)
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 09:35:43 -0700
Subject: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?
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Aletia,

Yup, that would be my understanding too.

Heather


On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Aletia Morgan <ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu>wrote:

> Heather ? thank you for sharing this!
>
>
>
> As I?m reading this, the following point stuck out:
>
>
>
> *?What data are not included at the basic level? The Office of Management
> and Budget statement (1999) specifies that this definition does not include
> ?preliminary analyses, drafts of scientific papers, plans for future
> research, peer reviews, or communications with colleagues.? Raw data fall
> into this category as ?preliminary analyses.??  ENG*
>
>
>
> By this then, the project I was wondering about would not apply, since the
> key purpose includes ?plans for future research?communication with
> colleagues?.  So then no DMP would be required, beyond stating that it does
> not apply.
>
>
>
> Does this make sense?
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aletia
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> *Aletia Morgan**
> **Research Application Designer
> **Office of the Vice President for Research
>    and Graduate & Professional Education
> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
> 715 CoRE Building, Busch Campus*
>
> *aletia.morgan at rutgers.edu
> 732-445-3344
>
> *
>
>
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From jgraybeal at ucsd.edu  Wed May  4 19:13:16 2011
From: jgraybeal at ucsd.edu (John Graybeal)
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 16:13:16 -0700
Subject: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?
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Umm, I'm not sure the 1999 position will qualify as a best practices document.  It's one thing when talking about private communications.  But when talking about a publicly funded activity to establish that information, it seems worth closer consideration.

I think you could cite it and NSF might find your argument flawless.  But from an open data and public money perspective, the spirit of where we're trying to go is to naturally (and easily) use best practices to make as much information publicly visible as possible, in as useful a form as possible.  WIthin appropriate cost constraints, of course.

So that is where your personal convictions, preferences, and situation kicks in, I expect.  

john

On May 4, 2011, at 09:12, Aletia Morgan wrote:

> Heather ? thank you for sharing this! 
>  
> As I?m reading this, the following point stuck out:
>  
> ?What data are not included at the basic level? The Office of Management and Budget statement (1999) specifies that this definition does not include ?preliminary analyses, drafts of scientific papers, plans for future research, peer reviews, or communications with colleagues.? Raw data fall into this category as ?preliminary analyses.??  ENG
>  
> By this then, the project I was wondering about would not apply, since the key purpose includes ?plans for future research?communication with colleagues?.  So then no DMP would be required, beyond stating that it does not apply.
>  
> Does this make sense?
>  
>  
> Thanks,
> Aletia
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Aletia Morgan
> Research Application Designer
> Office of the Vice President for Research 
>    and Graduate & Professional Education
> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
> 715 CoRE Building, Busch Campus
> aletia.morgan at rutgers.edu
> 732-445-3344
> 
>  
> From: rdap-bounces at asis.org [mailto:rdap-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Heather Piwowar
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 3:52 PM
> To: Research Data, Access and Preservation
> Subject: Re: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?
>  
> Hi Aletia, 
>  
> To echo the points raised by others and support your observations, I thought I'd point you to a quick-and-dirty thematic assembly of excerpts from all the NSF guidelines, in case it is helpful:
>  
> http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/revised-nsf/
>  
> Particularly the "What is considered ?data?/research results covered by this policy ?"  section.
>  
> Some of the directorates are quite specific.... but others aren't.  I agree, I hope the guidelines are updated as the policies become more clear through use!
>  
> Cheers, 
> Heather
>  
> --
> Heather Piwowar
> 
> DataONE postdoc with NESCent and Dryad
>   studying research data sharing and reuse
>   remotely from Dept of Zoology, UBC, Vancouver Canada
> http://researchremix.org
> @researchremix
>  
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Aletia Morgan <ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Good morning!
> I appreciate everyone?s comments ? especially seeing that some of the instructions from the different directorates are different.  And Sherry, I am in full agreement with you that a lot of the written requirements are just too vague at this point ? I hope that NSF will post updates in the not-too-distant future. 
>  
> I think this kind of clarification of intent will continue to be a topic for some time?
>  
> Thanks,
> Aletia
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Aletia Morgan
> Research Application Designer
> Office of the Vice President for Research 
>    and Graduate & Professional Education
> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
> 715 CoRE Building, Busch Campus
> ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu
> 732-445-3344
> 
>  
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From ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu  Thu May  5 09:09:16 2011
From: ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu (Aletia Morgan)
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 09:09:16 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?
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And this issue of transparency and accountability was my original
rationale for suggesting that SOME Data Management Plan be included - even
if it was "we'll back up the notes and word documents on our server".  To
me, beyond  the issue of re-use of data, the political accountability
question is probably the key driver for this whole initiative.

 

So I think where I'm ending up is that I will still strongly recommend
that SOME data management plan be included, but we'll see. 

 

Thanks again to all.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Aletia Morgan
Research Application Designer
Office of the Vice President for Research 
   and Graduate & Professional Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
715 CoRE Building, Busch Campus

aletia.morgan at rutgers.edu
732-445-3344



 

From: rdap-bounces at asis.org [mailto:rdap-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of
John Graybeal
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 7:13 PM
To: Research Data, Access and Preservation
Subject: Re: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?

 

Umm, I'm not sure the 1999 position will qualify as a best practices
document.  It's one thing when talking about private communications.  But
when talking about a publicly funded activity to establish that
information, it seems worth closer consideration.

 

I think you could cite it and NSF might find your argument flawless.  But
from an open data and public money perspective, the spirit of where we're
trying to go is to naturally (and easily) use best practices to make as
much information publicly visible as possible, in as useful a form as
possible.  WIthin appropriate cost constraints, of course.

 

So that is where your personal convictions, preferences, and situation
kicks in, I expect.  

 

john

 

On May 4, 2011, at 09:12, Aletia Morgan wrote:





Heather - thank you for sharing this! 

 

As I'm reading this, the following point stuck out:

 

"What data are not included at the basic level? The Office of Management
and Budget statement (1999) specifies that this definition does not
include "preliminary analyses, drafts of scientific papers, plans for
future research, peer reviews, or communications with colleagues." Raw
data fall into this category as "preliminary analyses.""  ENG

 

By this then, the project I was wondering about would not apply, since the
key purpose includes "plans for future research.communication with
colleagues".  So then no DMP would be required, beyond stating that it
does not apply.

 

Does this make sense?

 

 

Thanks,

Aletia

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Aletia Morgan
Research Application Designer
Office of the Vice President for Research 
   and Graduate & Professional Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
715 CoRE Building, Busch Campus

aletia.morgan at rutgers.edu
732-445-3344




 

From: rdap-bounces at asis.org [mailto:rdap-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of
Heather Piwowar
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 3:52 PM
To: Research Data, Access and Preservation
Subject: Re: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?

 

Hi Aletia, 

 

To echo the points raised by others and support your observations, I
thought I'd point you to a quick-and-dirty thematic assembly of excerpts
from all the NSF guidelines, in case it is helpful:

 

http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/revised-nsf/

 

Particularly the "What is considered "data"/research results covered by
this policy ?"  section.

 

Some of the directorates are quite specific.... but others aren't.  I
agree, I hope the guidelines are updated as the policies become more clear
through use!

 

Cheers, 

Heather

 

--

Heather Piwowar


DataONE postdoc with NESCent and Dryad

  studying research data sharing and reuse
  remotely from Dept of Zoology, UBC, Vancouver Canada
http://researchremix.org
@researchremix <http://twitter.com/#!/researchremix> 

 






On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Aletia Morgan <ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu>
wrote:

Good morning!

I appreciate everyone's comments - especially seeing that some of the
instructions from the different directorates are different.  And Sherry, I
am in full agreement with you that a lot of the written requirements are
just too vague at this point - I hope that NSF will post updates in the
not-too-distant future. 

 

I think this kind of clarification of intent will continue to be a topic
for some time.

 

Thanks,

Aletia

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Aletia Morgan
Research Application Designer
Office of the Vice President for Research 
   and Graduate & Professional Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
715 CoRE Building, Busch Campus

ahmorgan at vpr.rutgers.edu
732-445-3344

 

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Product Manager

Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure Project:
http://ci.oceanobservatories.org

Marine Metadata Interoperability Project: http://marinemetadata.org

 

 

 

 





 

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From: oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov (Joe Hourcle)
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 09:32:55 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] Deciding when a Data Management Plan is not required?
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On May 5, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Aletia Morgan wrote:

> And this issue of transparency and accountability was my original
> rationale for suggesting that SOME Data Management Plan be included - even
> if it was "we'll back up the notes and word documents on our server".  To
> me, beyond  the issue of re-use of data, the political accountability
> question is probably the key driver for this whole initiative.
> 
> So I think where I'm ending up is that I will still strongly recommend
> that SOME data management plan be included, but we'll see. 


If it's a question of not including the plan entirely, I'd say that
you definitely need one, even if it's to say, 'we've reviewed 
what the intermediate products of our effort will be, and we
don't believe they have value outside of our research, and
so have no plans to retain them.'

I'd think you'd want to show that you had at least considered
what was produced, and what their value is.

-----
Joe Hourcle
Programmer/Analyst
Solar Data Analysis Center
Goddard Space Flight Center


From cmmorris at fedora-commons.org  Thu May  5 11:17:55 2011
From: cmmorris at fedora-commons.org (Carol Minton Morris)
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 11:17:55 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] NEWS RELEASE: DuraSpace Launches 2011 Community Sponsorship
	Program
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*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ONLINE:
http://duraspace.org/content/duraspace-launches-2011-community-sponsorship-program
*

May 5, 2011

Contact: Valorie Hollister ** <cmmorris at duraspace.org>*
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*DuraSpace Launches 2011 Community Sponsorship Program*

*Ithaca, NY *The challenges of preserving and providing access to researcher
data continue to grow and the stakes remain high. DuraSpace, an independent
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communities in supporting the common goal of ensuring that our scholarly
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generations.

Community sponsors contribute at three levels of giving (*
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home of the DSpace (*http://DSpace.org/* <http://dspace.org/>), Fedora (*
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Ann J. Wolpert, Director of Libraries, Massachusettes Institute of
Technology, offers this rationale for financial support of the DuraSpace
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their work, we are not only investing in the future of our own digital
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*About DuraSpace *

DuraSpace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. DuraSpace software and
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From Peter.Wittenburg at mpi.nl  Mon May  9 05:04:30 2011
From: Peter.Wittenburg at mpi.nl (Peter Wittenburg)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 11:04:30 +0200
Subject: [Rdap] EUDAT Project in Europe funded
Message-ID: <147889AFDB014A43A5A9318270C826C9BA10172083@MAILER.mpi.nl>

Dear RDAP colleagues,

I would like to inform you that the EUDAT project which I mentioned in my talk at the meeting in Phoenix (probably under the old name PARADE) will become funded by the European Commission.
The project is about to work out the basis for a "Collaborative Data Infrastructure" [1] where a number of different disciplines (from natural science to humanities) and a number of the strongest European data centers come together and implement some key data services in the coming 3 years. We understand that the project is challenging in so far that we first need to find a common understanding between so different disciplines of and second identify which of the data services are common in the sense that they are (almost) the same for all disciplines.

The project will officially start in autumn this year and of course we will be interested in maintaining intensive interactions with the RDAP experts. Of course we will prepare more elaborate documents and a web-site once started.
The coordinator of the project will be Kimmo Koski from CSC (Finland) and my role will be "scientific coordinator", i.e. bringing the communities together, synchronizing the requirements etc.

Of course we are very happy that this now will become reality and certainly the excellent discussions in Phoenix and the interactions with some of you afterwards helped a lot in shaping the proposal.

[1] Riding the Wave - Report: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/docs/hlg-sdi-report.pdf

best
Peter

Peter Wittenburg
MPI for Psycholinguistics
Nijmegen, The Netherlands


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From oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov  Mon May  9 13:01:30 2011
From: oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov (Joe Hourcle)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 13:01:30 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rdap] Build Library Apps for Science and win $15, 000 / $10,
 000 / $5, 000 (fwd)
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1105091256540.27098@moat.nascom.nasa.gov>


With the libraries + science crossover from this group, I thought this 
might be on topic.  (for those not familiar with 'code4lib', it's mostly 
systems librarians and programmers who work in libraries)

-Joe


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Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 06:33:25 -0400
From: "Caprio, Remko (ELS-NYC)" <R.Caprio at ELSEVIER.COM>
Reply-To: Code for Libraries <CODE4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
To: CODE4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Build Library Apps for Science and win $15,000 / $10,
     000 / $5,000

I want to invite librarians and library information system professionals 
to participate in a software competition for SciVerse applications. You 
can build applications to enhance and customize the end-user's search 
needs, improving their research through a library Sciverse application.

SciVerse is an OpenSocial (also used by OCLC's Cooperative Platform and 
iGoogle for instance, and with 900 million end-users worldwide) based 
network and apps platform for Elsevier products: Hub, ScienceDirect, 
Scopus, SciTopics and Applications. With SciVerse you can create your own 
library application and embed it directly within SciVerse content, while 
connecting with third party open APIs and open data, and thus improving 
the experience of SciVerse for your particular library.

For more information about the challenge go to http://appsforscience.com

For more information about SciVerse go to http://developer.sciverse.com

Examples of SciVerse applications are:

- Illinois Catalog Viewer, which allows users to browse related
   search results in the Illinois Library catalog. (a white-labeled open
   source version for VuFind catalogs, developed in collaboration with the
   University of Illinois and VuFind will be available soon).

- CiteSeer, which shows related search results in CiteSeerX in
   the context of SciVerse searches (developed by Mark Harmer, winner of
   Elsevier Challenge at Code4Lib, available soon)

About Apps for Science

Deadline: July 31, 2011


Elsevier is offering $35,000 in prizes and challenging software developers 
to help researchers, librarians and students navigate the scientific 
content, improve search and discovery, visualize sophisticated data in 
more insightful and attractive ways and stimulate collaboration.

Elsevier has opened the scientific content and provided APIs for 
developers to create apps that improve researcher and librarian 
productivity and workflow.

Developers are encouraged to collaborate and develop the best apps to 
enhance and customize your end user's experience of SciVerse. Developers 
retain full IP rights to their submissions and can host their apps on 
Elsevier's SciVerse Application Marketplace where you can market their 
apps and gain revenue from 15 million users in over 10,000 institutions. 
Apps For Science is open to individual residents and organizations 
domiciled in seven countries: Australia, India, Japan, Germany, 
Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States .


   <http://appsforscience.com/>



Remko Caprio
Developer Network | Elsevier
Developer Platform Evangelist

Elsevier
360 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010 USA
Tel +1 (212) 633 3785
Mobile +1 (718) 679 8532
Skype: remkocaprio
IM: remkocaprio
r.caprio at elsevier.com
http://developer.sciverse.com/blog <http://developers.sciverse.com/blog>


http://twitter.com/sciversedev

http://www.facebook.com/sciverse
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/SciVerse/151739048173704?ref=sgm>







From rdowns at ciesin.columbia.edu  Fri May 27 11:47:25 2011
From: rdowns at ciesin.columbia.edu (Robert R. Downs)
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 11:47:25 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center
Message-ID: <4DDFC78D.2090705@ciesin.columbia.edu>

Dear Colleagues:

Please find the following announcement and excuse any duplication of 
this message.

A new Web site, the Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center, aims 
to help those responsible for producing and managing geospatial data 
learn about the latest approaches and tools available to facilitate 
long-term geospatial data preservation and access. The Web site provides 
descriptions and links for a variety of relevant resources, including 
education and training modules, useful tools and software, information 
on policies and standards for preserving geospatial data, and examples 
of successful preservation and associated benefits. This first release 
of the Web site, which CIESIN will be enhancing over the next year, was 
developed as an element of the National Digital Information 
Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) of the Library of Congress.

The Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center is accessible at 
http://geopreservation.org/

CIESIN, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, 
is a unit of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, based at the 
Lamont campus in Palisades, New York.

Thanks,

Bob Downs

Dr. Robert R. Downs
Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
The Earth Institute, Columbia University
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
Voice: 845-365-8985; fax: 845-365-8922
E-mail: rdowns at ciesin.columbia.edu
Columbia University CIESIN Web site: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu


From jqin at syr.edu  Mon May 30 21:44:26 2011
From: jqin at syr.edu (Jian Qin)
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:44:26 -0400
Subject: [Rdap] Reminder: Call for Work-in-Progress Papers -- DC-SAM
 workshop at TPDL2011, Berlin
Message-ID: <A11A30A0B41AD44CB844F547D7AEF9A38B0FF3E15A@suex07-mbx-10.ad.syr.edu>

This is just a reminder that the deadline for submitting work-in-progress papers is approaching: June 12, 2011. For submission information please see the end of this call.

Please feel free to distribute this call.
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A DC-SAM Workshop: Research and Best Practices in Linking Scientific Metadata

September 29, 2011, Berlin, Germany

To be held as part of the

Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries (TPDL) Conference<http://www.tpdl2011.org/> (September 25-29, 2011, Berlin, Germany)



Call for Work-in-Progress Papers

Describing scientific research data can be challenging due to their complexity and diversity. Standards for describing scientific datasets include not only entities responsible for data collection, processing, and distribution, but also information for data users to assess the relevancy to their data needs, quality of datasets, as well as technicalities regarding data file manipulation. Although scientific metadata schemes address a range of needs for data identification, quality assessment, verifiability, and dissemination, they do not fully address the challenges related to metadata generation and islands of information exist within and across scientific metadata records. One step towards addressing these challenges and problems is to have information scientists and domain scientists collaborate to evolve existing solutions in web-friendly ways. This one-day workshop will feature invited speakers from science and information science in the morning sessions and selected work-in-progress reports and interactive discussion in the afternoon.

The DC-SAM (DCMI Science and Metadata Community)<http://dublincore.org/groups/sam/> workshop will include three parts: a morning  session consists of invited speakers from both science and information science, a working lunch with focus group discussion, and an afternoon session for work-in-progress reports.  This call is soliciting submissions of work-in-progress reports for the afternoon session. We are especially interested in, but not limited to, the following topics:
*         -- Identification systems and standards for scientific metadata
*         -- Scientific metadata architecture and models in Semantic Web
*         -- Interoperable taxonomies and vocabularies in [biology, astronomy, etc.]
*         -- Metadata linking mechanisms and technologies and their applications in scientific metadata
*         -- Organizational and technical challenges in linking scientific metadata

The outcomes of this workshop are expected to be a collection of research papers/reports and a research agenda in this increasingly important area, which will be made available on DC-SAM community website.

Researchers are invited to submit reports for their projects relevant to the theme of this workshop, which are either work in progress or completed. The work-in-progress papers should be no more than six (6) pages, single spaced, (approximately 3,000 words including abstract and references). The submission should include the following components:
*         -- Title of the paper
*         -- Author(s) and affiliations
*         -- Email addresses of authors
*         -- Project website
*         -- Abstract
*         -- Tags or keywords
*         -- Body of paper
*         -- References cited

The papers will be reviewed by the workshop program committee and selected based on originality, coherence, clarity, and appropriateness for the workshop. Each selected paper will be given a 15-minute slot for oral presentation.

Important dates:
*         Deadline for submitting papers: June 12, 2011, midnight (your local time)
*         Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2011
*         Final version of accepted papers: August 15, 2011

Please submit your paper to dc.sam.workshop at gmail.com<mailto:dc.sam.workshop at gmail.com>. All inquiries and questions can be sent to the same email address. A copy of this call can be found on the workshop website http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/SAM/. Information about the workshop will be updated as it becomes available.



Workshop co-organizers:

Jian Qin<http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/jqin/>, Syracuse University, USA

Jane Greenberg<http://www.ils.unc.edu/~janeg/>, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Norman Gray<http://nxg.me.uk/>, University of Glasgow, UK



Jian Qin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
311 Hinds Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244
Phone: 315-443-5642
Fax: 315-443-5806
http://ischool.syr.edu




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