2018 ESIP Winter Meeting

The Council of Data Facilities (CDF) is committed to working with relevant agencies, professional associations, initiatives, and other complementary efforts to enable transformational science, innovative education, and informed public policy through increased coordination, collaboration, and innovation in the acquisition, curation, preservation, and dissemination of geoscience data, tools, models, and services. Existing and emerging geoscience data facilities – through the Council – are committed to serving as an effective foundation for EarthCube. The General Assembly meeting is open to the official representatives from all member data facilities, additional member organization personnel as desired by the members, as well as observers.

Agenda:

1.    Welcome,   Approve meeting minutes from the July 2017 CDF General assembly meeting

2.   9:15-10:00   Update on the EarthCube Registry sub-award project - Doug Fils (Consortium for Ocean Leadership) and Adam Shepherd (BCO-DMO)

3. 10:00-10:30     Update on the FAIR Data project - Shelley Stall (AGU)

Break 10:30-11:00

4.     11:00-11:30 Presentation on the World Data System (WDS) - Alex de Sherbinin (Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University)

5.      11:30-12:30 Panel discussion on metrics collection and reporting at the Data Facilities - Danie Kinkade (BCO-DMO), facilitator

Panelists:

·        Kerstin Lehnert (IEDA)

·        Rob Casey (IRIS)

·        Ethan Davis (Unidata)

·        Dave Vieglais (DataONE)