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Steve Diggs @ RDA / WGIG Gaithersburg, MD USA

2018.01.12

Data Rescue IG

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Data Rescue IG: Basics

  • Status: Recognised & Endorsed
  • Background
    • E. Griffin / CODATA DTARG
    • 2.5 years old (2015 Case Statement)
    • New Case Statement in-process
  • 85 members
    • Moderate geographic diversity
    • Nominal inactivity required reinvigoration
  • 3 co-chairs
      • Lesley Wyborn, Steve Diggs, David Gallaher
      • We have directly addressed the Co-Chair rotation issue (Emeritus)
      • With new co-chairs comes a change in direction, interests, operating modes, and connections (EDGI, Data Refuge, ESIP)

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Revised Definition

  • Data Rescue seeks to recover older datasets and metadata from the trappings of dated media and recording hardware

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  • Data-at-Risk seeks to identify data sets that need to be preserved and/or replicated anticipating changes in curation personnel and evolving technologies, so that they are always available as a global resources for future research, particularly research that involves longitudinal aspects.

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RDA/US DataShare Fellows for RD-IG

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  • Morgan Currie

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    • PhD: UCLA - Information Studies
    • UCLA / Stanford Postdoc
    • Focus: Policy / Contact: Steve Diggs

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  • Alia Khan

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    • PhD: Univ. of Colorado - Biogeochemistry
    • NSIDC (Nat’l Snow and Ice Data Center)
    • Focus: Geoscience / Contact: Dave Gallaher

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RDA/US DataShare Fellows

Currie Project

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RDA/US DataShare Fellows

Khan Survey Project

  • Rescue of physical environmental/climate data to explore the relationships between climate and snow/ice/ecosystem response.

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  • Currently conducting a survey of data-at risk in the polar/environmental field, collecting examples of data-rescue projects, and identifying potential future needs. The results will be listed on the RDA Data Rescue IG page. 

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  • Key organizations possessing data-at risk have been targeted in addition to the survey, as well as potential funding agencies.

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  • The long-term aim is to develop a foundation for funding proposals to develop a Data-Rescue project.

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Data Rescue IG: 2018

  • Data Rescue IG sessions at P11/Berlin

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  • US Data Share Fellows

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  • Working with ESIP’s Data Stewardship Cluster

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  • Revive DARTG group in CODATA

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Data Rescue IG

Answers to Gaithersburg Questions

  • Brief recap of purpose of WG/IG and planned outcomes/aims? See Slides
  • What has been accomplished to date? Data Share Fellows, connections to ESIP Clusters, Group reinvigoration, course corrections for EDGI, etc.

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  • What issues, challenges, problems, have been encountered? Chair Stagnation/Rotation, suspension of CODATA TG

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  • Are these issues sufficient to require modification of the outcome, schedules, scope? Hopefully answered already

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  • What is the plan for completion/progress for the coming 6-12 months? See “Data Rescue IG: 2018”

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  • Is your work related to/coordinated with other WG/IGs? IG Domain Repositories, IG Metadata, IG Ethics and Social Aspects of Data, IG Global Water

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  • How does your work fit into the RDA mission? Preserving data as well as long-term data best practices are central to the Discovery component of RDA’s vision and mission.

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Data Rescue 2.0: we can be both

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