[Rdap] NSF open access announcement

[Joe Hourcle]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2015, Margaret E Henderson wrote:

> For those of you not on Twitter following the #OSTPResp thread, you might
> want to check out the Google Doc where we are crowd sourcing the OSTP memo
> plans as they come it. http://bit.ly/FedOASummary
>
> You'll find columns covering data and articles - and of course a data
> dictionary. Thanks to Kristen Briney for setting it up, and thanks to all
> the contributors.

Interesting how different people interpret things.  The note for NSF is :

 	The data stuff in this one is wishy washy.

I personally thought it good that they admitted that there's still work to 
be done regarding repositories & data citation, and there needed to be 
investment to find solutions.

If you really want wishy-washy, you should see what NASA considers to be a 
registry of 'datasets':

 	https://data.nasa.gov/

With entries such as:

 	https://data.nasa.gov/Space-Science/Solar-Data-Analysis-Center/9kkr-qytf

 	https://data.nasa.gov/Space-Science/Solar-Data-Analysis-Center-Data-Finder/33b2-g32s

They claim they're 'data extraction tool or application' when they're 
just pages with links on them.  They didn't bother to actually index any 
'datasets'.  (or they'd learn that Yohkoh, the thing filling the summary 
of the first one ... isn't actually a NASA spacecraft).


(and yes, I contacted people the responsible parties years ago, and got 
the brush-off)

-Joe