[Rdap] NSF open access announcement

Margaret E Henderson mehenderson at vcu.edu
Thu Mar 19 15:45:46 EDT 2015


Very interesting Joe.  I wonder if we all just have different standards
based on what we have been taught or what we have been working with?

I also wonder if we are unrealistic in expecting every researcher to care
as much about data sets as we do, but that is another story.

Thanks for the info.

Margaret

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On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Joe Hourcle <oneiros at grace.nascom.nasa.gov>
wrote:

>
>
> 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
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