Efficiently enabling interdisciplinary, interoperable open science through collaborative governance approaches.
Register for the 2024 Open Source Science Data Repositories Workshop.
When: Sept. 25 to 27, 2024.
Where: Virtual and in-person at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA.
Who: Open to anyone in the SMD scientific community including SMD data repositories, SMD-funded researchers at NASA Centers and SMD-funded flight missions.
NCTS #: 50605-24
Please join us September 25 to 27, 2024 for the 2024 NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) annual workshop. The workshop brings together SMD data stewards, data repositories and data providers to develop collaborative governance approaches and to share best practices from across the SMD community. The workshop will occur over two and a half days.
The theme of the workshop is “Scientific Data and Information Governance and Coordination” and how these efforts can accelerate science. The workshop aims to bring together scientific data stewards, researchers, and technologists to collaborate and advance our collective understanding and progress in this area. The workshop structure will allow participants to critically review progress, integrate learning, and make changes that can enhance the effectiveness of future governance activities. The goal of the workshop is to emerge with clear actions and commitments from participants to address opportunities identified through the various workshop activities.
Discussions will include interactive sessions on understanding the various governance activities happening across SMD and further exploring the challenges to implementing SMD-wide governance. Specific topics include how repositories interpret the requirements of the Desirable Characteristics of Federal Repositories, defining SMD-wide levels of data service, shared approaches to stewarding research data and derived products, and coordinating and evaluating metadata quality.
The workshop is hosted by IPAC at CalTech. The event space includes a large conference room for presentations and breakout/discussion rooms to accommodate planned activities. Each room will accommodate virtual attendance options for those who cannot attend in person. In person attendance will be limited by venue capacity. There is no registration fee.
This is an open meeting geared towards researchers, data science teams, and data stewards at SMD Data Repositories along with missions and community members working in these areas.
Key Objectives
- Foster a shared vision of SMD’s goals for data and information governance, standards and best practices.
- Encourage community discussion and sharing of various data and information governance and standards activities across SMD.
- Develop a deeper understanding of key barriers to success related to cross-SMD data and information governance, standards and best practices.
- Identification, prioritization and initial scoping of key data and information governance activities that need to be developed for SMD.
- A high level roadmap, including a high level schedule, of identified governance activities for SMD. The roadmap will inform the development of SMD-wide data and information governance initiatives. Individual divisional or repository data and information governance implementation approaches will be discussed at a later date.
Workshop Agenda
Code of Conduct
This meeting will be held following the Transform to Open Science Code of Conduct.
If you have any additional questions, please contact:
- Kaylin Bugbee – Lead Event Point of Contact
For information about the previous workshop held in 2023, see Open Source Science Data Repositories Workshop: FAIR for NASA Data.