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5 Data Stewardship
Pages 61-70

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From page 61...
... The committee was asked to of digital data availability, the White House identify "options to ensure that project or site- Office of Science and Technology Policy adopted based monitoring could be used cumulatively an Open Data Policy and directed federal and comprehensively to track effectiveness" at agencies to make federally funded research data larger spatial scales. Data stewardship is an available to the public in digital formats.1 important element to ensure such synthesis Data stewardship comprises behaviors, efforts can assess restoration effectiveness at practices, and actions that ensure project and larger spatial scales.
From page 62...
... are essential elements of a data managebe employed (i.e., for metadata content, meta- ment program.3 QA refers to taking actions data encoding, controlled-vocabularies, units of before data are collected to prevent data defects measure, file formats, and encoding) (e.g., proper selection and placement of sensors • data sharing and release policies and their settings for the application)
From page 63...
... recorded is needed. For this reason, metadata 6 Marine Metadata Interoperability content standards: content standards have been developed by user https://marinemetadata.org/conventions/contentcommunities that articulate what information is standards; International Oceanographic Data and required to enable comprehensive data use Information Exchange guidelines (data management plan updated in March 2016:
From page 64...
... Like content standards, CVs can be constructed for a particular project Data Publishing by combining one or more CVs, borrowing a few terms from a CV, or extending an existing CV. Data publishing is the mechanism by which An ontology supplements the terms in a CV data are made available to others.
From page 65...
... Policies might require that a formal written data request be submitted to a Trusted Digital Repositories, Data Portals, Data funding agency manager who might deny early Cooperatives, and Cyberinfrastructure release to the press but grant early release to a cooperating restoration project. It is important to Restoration work will generate data having anticipate possible scenarios and build policies value well beyond the end of the individual into the funding opportunity documents.
From page 66...
... In such cases, alternatives to trusted digital references to other habitat and taxa-specific repositories need to be considered. platforms, such as eBird.17 Data portals and data cooperatives are A few major data aggregating entities in the repositories where data from projects and Gulf of Mexico that accept a broad range of programs tend to aggregate over the program's environmental data types from a large number of lifetime.
From page 67...
... (STORET/WQX) system to house and exchange GRIIDC is the data management arm of the terrestrial and near coastal water quality and Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, which pollution data for U.S.
From page 68...
... Member nodes benefit because their addressed appropriately, the committee data holdings are more easily discovered by a recommends that all restoration projects be broader community. DataONE also provides a required to include a written data management number of resources designed to help new data plan and deliverables as a condition for funding collection programs develop data management restoration proposals.
From page 69...
... The existing Visualization Exploration and Reporting (DIVER) groups are complementary and all could play a Explorer, and EPA's STOrage and RETrieval and role together in serving the broader community Water Quality eXchange (STORET/WQX)


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