[Board] FYI:Report about AGU meeting + question

[Dirk Frigne]

Peter,

Thank you for this information.
I think the FAIR principle[1] is very important and OSGeo should
obviously support it.

My2c to the board is that it is important that the representative of the
Open Geoscience committee is listed as VP on the OSGeo website [2].
Certainly when he should represent OSGeo as one of the stakeholders of
the project.

Dirk


[1] https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html

On 22-11-17 13:19, "Peter Löwe" wrote:
> Dear Board,
> 
> #1: FYI: 
> Here's a short summary regarding last weeks meeting for the Enabling FAIR project (financed through the Amrican Geoscience Union).
> 
> For the kick-off meeting in Alexandria, VA, AGU invited 7o persons as stakeholders/representatives from these (overlapping) fields, including, but not limited to AGU-members:
> - US-funding agencies, 
> - publishers/editors (including Science, Nature, Copernicus, etc.), 
> - data repository manager (-> PANGAEA, NASA, etc.)
> - data community (RDA, FORCE11, etc.)
> - data/publishing infrastructure
> - journal workflow vendors
> - librarians
> - researcher/scientists (covering both early career and end-of career).
> 
> I guess I was invited for being part of the data community -- librarian -- data infrastructure/repository triangle [waving the OSGeo-flag during the meeting, of course].
> 
> The project goal us to establish a "global multi-stakeholder coalition of multi-stakeholder coalitions" to compile and summarize the current state of the art regarding the FAIR (Findable|Accessible|Interoperable|Reproducible) principles for scientific data. It is noteworthy that in this paradigm,*** software is considered a subset of data *** ! AGU is handling the project management. Based on the compilated materials and best practices about FAIR, pilot applications/workflows/etc. will be created, to be used/tested within the AGU Earth and Space Science Division (ESSI). In a follow up step (after the projects lifespan), those pilots which worked well, shall be extended and applied outside of AGU (driven by global communities like RDA or FORCE11 [and possibly OSGeo]).
> 
> IMHO, OSGeo qualifies both as a multi-stakeholder coalition and a research data repository (of repositories?): OSGeo is already being listed in the re3data-repository-of-research-data-repositories: https://www.re3data.org/search?query=OSGeo 
> 
> The topic/buzzword "FAIR" will most likely be relevant for the next steps towards a MOU with AGU. As a first step, points of contact at AGU could be identified duing the meeting. I will keep the board updated as the dialogue evolves.
> 
> #2: Question 
> The current list of board and officers (http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/board_and_officers.html) lists Vice Presidents for five of the existing OSGeo committees. What about the other committees, including the Open Geoscience Committee ?
> 
> best,
> peter
> 
> 
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
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