First Meeting of the IASC Data Standing Committee (IDSC) and SAON Committee on Data and Information Services (CDIS)
Draft Agenda
10-11 November 2014 Mercure Hotel Potsdam City
Lange Brücke
14467 Potsdam
Germany
Room: Studio 1+2. located behind the hotel restaurant.
Meeting Records
Final Meeting Report ArcticDataManagement_Meeting1_Final_Draft_Report_SM.pdf (5 MB, uploaded by Peter L Pulsifer 10 months 5 days ago) (arctichub account required)
Travel Information Travel_Info_IASC.pdf (546 KB, uploaded by Peter L Pulsifer 11 months 2 weeks ago)
Virtual Meeting Details
Meeting Background
IMPORTANT: Before the start of the meeting, participants (or other ADCN members) are asked to identify what they believe to be important arctic data resources. This could be a data set, an application, a service, a network etc.. This may be something that they lead, participate in, use or simply know of in some detail. At minimum, participants should provide a brief description of the resource, why they think it is important, and whether the system is accessible to the broader international community. If it is not accessible, what are the possibilities in this regard? Project descriptions and statements should be added to the existing ADCN directory.
Different representatives can indicate the same resource as this will help us to identify resources of broad value. The objective here is to try to build our collective knowledge into a “map” of arctic or broader polar data resources. Meeting organizers will prepare and interactive version of this map for presentation and use during the meeting. Contributors are asked to provide this information no later than November 8th.
Agenda
| Day 1 | 10 November 2014 | |
| Time | Topic/Activity | Moderator/Speaker |
| 13:00 | Welcome and refreshments | All |
| 14:00 | Introductions | All |
| 14:15 | Overview and Background of Committees | Chair, David Hik, Volker Rachold, Jan Rene Larsen |
| 14:30 | Understanding and refining the mandate of, and relationship between, IDSC and CDIS | Introduction by Chair, discussion by All |
| 15:15 | Identifying and Understanding the Needs of Science and Society | David Hik, discussion by all |
| This presentation will provide an overview of priorities established for and by the science community, and society | ||
| 15:45 | Break | |
| 16:00 | Linking Arctic Data Resources | All |
| Building on the map created based on input prior to the meeting, the objective of this session will be to collaboratively identify existing, potential or critically important but non-existent relationships between the resources identified. Resources can be in the form of technology, people, organizations, funding or others. The objective in this session is to go beyond identifying individual resources and start to understand the current status of arctic data management resources as a network and the gaps in connectivity. Throughout this process the group will be asked to associate the discussion with science and societal needs identified earlier in the day. Additionally, the group will be asked to discuss how our geographically defined community can or should engage with broader initiatives (e.g. World Data System, Research Data Alliance) | ||
| 18:00 | Adjourn | |
| 19:30 | Group Dinner (venue TBD) | All interested |
| Day 2 | 11 November 2014 | |
| Time | Topic/Activity | Moderator/Speaker |
| 08:00 | Welcome and refreshments | All |
| 08:30 | Review of previous day | Led by Chair, discussion by All |
| 08:50 | Establishing Current priorities for Arctic Data Management in the context if IDSC/CDIS | All |
| There are many resources available that document priority areas and challenges (e.g. PDF Communique, IASC Statement,ADCN Report,SAON DM Workshop). The focus of this session will be to identify and focus on a small number of high value, relatively short term priorities that consider the science and societal priorities previously identified, and that may draw on the resources and relationships identified on the map created during Day 1. For example, metadata and data interoperability across nations and disciplines, including an agreement on basic metadata elements to support international exchange, is currently a topic of great interest to many. To facilitate productive discussion, participants are asked to review the linked documents before the meeting. | ||
| 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:35 | Establishing a way forward | All |
| Meeting participants will be asked to establish a tentative work plan that includes achievable, relatively short-term objectives that can address all or part of one or more of the priorities established in the previous sessions. The intention is for this plan to be documented, refined and shared broadly across the polar data management community for critical review. | ||
| 12:00 | Break | |
| 12:15 | Understanding and refining the mandate of, and relationship between, IDSC and CDIS : revisited | Introduction by Chair, discussion by All |
| Having had the opportunity to review and discuss resources, relationships, priorities and partnerships, the group will be given an opportunity to revisit the discussion of IDSC and CDIS mandates and relationships to refine the mandate of and relationship between the groups. | ||
| 13:00 | Adjourn meeting | |
| 14:00 | Informal working session | |
| For those interested a venue will be established for an informal meeting of participants who would like to continue discussion. Completion time dependent on interest of remaining participants |