Answers to Dave Martin's fourth question:
- Do we agree with this rather bleak assessment?
- If so, how do our programs address these issues?
- What specific, identified additional efforts should be undertaken?
- Should Ocean.US host a community workshop to address specific issues
within the above and, if so, who should come?
I would suggest starting off with the "trusted" expert
model; meetings like this or smaller between Ocean.US staff and one or
two experts. The first meetings might involve people with the "big
picture" overview to hammer out the various components. These meetings
could then be followed by similar meetings focusing on each of the
components. When a clear picture begins to emerge from such discussions
a workshop might be appropriate. NSF Geosciences CyberInfrastructure
model.
Issues that I don't think are being addressed in a coherent/comprehensive
way are:
- Data archaeology
- Deep archive for data products; e.g., look at NSF's data policy
- What is missing in the present NOPP investments in VOD-HUB, OBIS, etc.?
- How do we get beyond continuing rounds of hand-wringing and develop
solutions to these issues?
- What is the proper role of science in developing solutions versus a more immediate
"imposition" of standards/protocols/conventions, etc. achieved by obtaining rapid community
consensus of what they should be?
