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Breakout Group #3 Data Distribution and Access Recommendations for Workshop Report

Breakout Group #3 Data Distribution and Access Recommendations for Workshop Report John Dwyer, Rapporteur. On data management system design Further level of design requires more explicit enumeration of requirements! The NACP system should be decentralized, to the extent practicable

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Breakout Group #3 Data Distribution and Access Recommendations for Workshop Report

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  1. Breakout Group #3 Data Distribution and Access Recommendations for Workshop Report John Dwyer, Rapporteur

  2. On data management system design • Further level of design requires more explicit enumeration of requirements! • The NACP system should be decentralized, to the extent practicable • NACP web portal that contains an index of metadata, data, and services • Enable subscription services to notify investigators when data, products, and/or services are available • Establish definitions and standards for data QA/QC, uncertainties, error analyses • Services to facilitate data search and query should range from data catalogue entries (structured database) to free text metadata search (Google-type search) • Incorporate open source collaboration principles in system development efforts (portal design, data filters, format conversion, web mapping services, cross-platform compatibility)

  3. Identify near-term activities (pilot/prototype) as well as long term activities • Short Term • Identify and prioritize data sets of greatest common need, with priority given to currently funded NACP projects • Especially with regard to issues of restricted access (FIA, NRCS) • Commercial remotely sensed data • Identify and prioritize data processing services of greatest common need, i.e. obstacles to the ready use of data/products, with priority given to currently funded NACP projects • Develop an NACP web portal • Communicate data management policy to NACP-funded investigators • Develop a NACP Data Policy • Define criteria for making NACP data accessible to NACP investigators • Define criteria for making NACP data publicly accessible

  4. Long Term • Establish a Data Management Working Group, comprised science • data users and data system developers, that reports to the • Science Steering Group • Formulate a policy and strategy for long term archive of data • and products developed by NACP project activities

  5. Resources required • At least 1 FTE for design and development of a NACP web portal • At least 1 FTE for design and development of a NACP metadata editor • Leverage existing capabilities and resources (i.e. existing open source software tools) • NACP PIs must plan to allocate resources to support the NACP Data Management System (i.e. document data collection methods, prepare metadata, QA/QC information, quantified measures of uncertainty)

  6. Interfaces between agencies and data centers • Establish program level MOUs where necessary and feasible • Leverage services from agency data centers to the greatest extent possible

  7. Elements of the NACP data policy • Adherence to existing national/international data policies • Minimize, to the extent possible, the exclusive period of data use • Encourage early and open access to data by NACP investigators • Public access to NACP data once data have achieved a scientifically credible level of QA/QC and peer review • No restrictions on data use or redistribution, with the exceptions to constraints imposed by non-NACP data contributors (i.e. international, commercial)

  8. How to exert oversight and management of the NACP Data Management Program • Define a charter for the Data Management Working Group • NACP funding agencies should encourage funded PIs to adhere to NACP data management guidelines and policies • Success of the data management system is largely contingent upon collective adherence to guidelines and recommendations

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