[open-science] data repository primer?

[Charles Bailey]

 Tom:

You may find these open access works under a CC BY-NC license which I
wrote to be of help:

Research Data Curation Bibliography:
http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm

Digital Curation Resource Guide:
http://digital-scholarship.org/dcrg/dcrg.htm

Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works:
http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcb.htm


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Tom Roche Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:08:30 -0400
>>>> One [conference] topic was the need for better data sharing and
>>>> management: we currently tend to physically ship a lot of physical
>>>> hard drives after searching our social networks for folks with
>>>> needed datasets. One response is to start a torrent network, but
>>>> we also need ways/places to archive searchably[, hence] I'd like
>>>> to find out more about interests and plans in this space.
>
> Peter Murray-Rust Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:00:36 +0100
>>> I'd add http://datadryad.org/ to your list.
>
> As (barely) mentioned: CMAQ's community is regulatory as well as
> research. Without going deep-dive in detail, the model is widely used
> by governments and NGOs to forecast air quality, and this use is often
> required by law. Hence,
>
> * academic publication is not relevant for much of our community
>
> * much data of interest is currently "published" via things like
>   court dockets, which are not easy to find or parse
>
> Hence Dryad seems not to serve a large proportion of our population,
> but it's definitely worth adding for those who it might.
>
> Matt Jones Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:04:09 -0800
>> There is a well-established set of data repositories for atmospheric
>> data in the US and other countries that would be set up to handle
>> this (like the Oak Ridge National Lab DAAC that houses similar data,
>> or the National Snow and Ice Data Center, or the National
>> Oceanographic Data Center)
>
> Thanks for those suggestions. I'm more aware of NOAA's NCDC. My
> impression is, establishing oneself as a contributor at these federal
> repositories is often difficult if one is not a federal entity. Is
> that correct?
>
>> model output data sets are each in the one to multi-terabyte range
>
> Actually, most of the interest expressed at the meeting regarded
> reference *input* datasets used to setup runs, which are *much*
> smaller.
>
>> There are efforts like GEOSS and the DataONE (http://dataone.org)
>> project that I'm involved in that are trying to enable
>> interoperability among these many extant repositories so that the
>> data can be discovered regardless of where they are housed.
>
> thanks again
>
>> I know a number of people that are working on this specific issue
>> concerning archiving and discovery of atmospheric data, and I'd be
>> happy to put you in touch with them if you were interested.
>
> Please do. CMAQers definitely seemed interested, so I'd like to
> provide folks with options for followup. (And then get back to my
> thesis :-)
>
> TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>
>
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