NDSA:Geo August 2012
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August 22, 2012 Meeting Notes
Participants
- Bob Nutsch
- Brett Abrams
- Bob Downs
- Cindy Clark
- Mark Myers
- Steve Morris
- Glen McCanich
- Erin Engle
- Butch Lazorchak
- Evan Hammer
Meeting Notes
Discussion centered on conversations from the Content Working Group meeting during Digital Preservation 2012 around the subject of whether the content groups should have a focus on identifying at-risk data.
Discussion began with the notion that government people have their own set of records that they’re charged with preserving. When they talk about at-risk data they’re talking about the records that they’re already charged to preserve. They are not engaged with stewarding other records that they are not charged with dealing with. Groups who have a fixed mandate are already challenged with what they’re currently taking in and maintaining.
However, there are other categories of at-risk data outside the government sector that might qualify as “orphan works” in need of stewardship. The group should address these types of data in some way.
A definition of at-risk data was discussed and is a work in progress. The latest version can be found on the wiki at http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Geospatial#Draft_Definition_of_At-Risk_Geospatial_Content
Action Items:
Action: Cindy will tell group about ASPRS Committee on archiving and preserving data and will share information on the Geospatial data at risk list that ASPRS maintains. [She will present on these on a future call.]
Action: Butch will send out links to items discussed on call [Here they are!]
- IEEE Group on Earth Observations Purge Alerts
- ICSU/CODATA Data at Risk Inventory
http://www.ibiblio.org/data-at-risk/
- ASPRS Data Preservation and Archiving Committee
http://www.asprs.org/Committees/Data-Preservation-and-Archiving-Committee.html
Action: Update SDI definition: Butch. [Done]
Action: Update Current Activities list on wiki to represent doable actions: Butch [Done]
Action: Gather suggestions for speakers for the meeting [Ongoing] Terrago, ESRI, SafeSoftware, Adobe geospatial folks, Spatialite, LizardTech, etc.