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NOAA EDM Workshop #18

Closed vlraymond closed 6 years ago

vlraymond commented 6 years ago

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Registration details

The Registration and Group Travel Request are now open for the NOAA Environmental Data Management Workshop (EDMW 2018), to be held April 23-24, 2018 in Silver Spring MD. Please read the instructions at the top of the form (and copied below) before filling out the form.

https://goo.gl/forms/nTotzZoTsg6p3XVL2

IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS: This form is used for two purposes: (1) Registration of all attendees for the NOAA Environmental Data Management Workshop (EDMW 2018), to be held April 23-24, 2018 in Silver Spring MD (https://edmw2018.sched.com/). (2) Group Travel Request only for NOAA federal employees who live more than 50 miles from Silver Spring and will thus incur travel expenses.

DUE DATE: Feb 23, 2018 (firm deadline for NOAA travelers -- if you have not submitted this form you will not be able to travel).

REGISTRATION: All attendees must complete the first part of the form. There is no registration fee. Please register now even if your travel has not yet been approved so we can get an accurate count; if travel is later denied we can un-register you. Space is limited to 200 attendees; if demand is too great priority will be given to presenters, to earlier registrants, and to NOAA personnel (including contractors) rather than external people. In past years we have had fewer than 200 including 10-20 non-NOAA collaborators.

GROUP TRAVEL REQUEST: NOAA civil servants who will travel (>50 miles) to the meeting must complete both parts with information including city of origin, dates of travel, and estimated expenses. The purpose is to fulfill a Dept of Commerce requirement to approve group travel costs. No travel funding is provided by EDMW organizers; it is up to the traveler to obtain approval from their supervisor. Contractors and non-NOAA people should not complete this part.

The questions pertaining to travel are only shown on part 2 depending on your answer to a previous question. To preview all of the questions, see the sample form at https://drive.google.com/open?id=1V-27quK67SQQn6UKbv-erg69qbZowu1f

NOTE: When completing the form, you will receive a copy of your responses in email. This will include a link that enables you to make changes to your submission if needed, so keep that email.

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vlraymond commented 6 years ago

syncing with Shekeela this Thursday

vlraymond commented 6 years ago

Sheekela missed our meeting time, I will try to reschedule

vlraymond commented 6 years ago

The organizers published the attendees list - 95% attendees are NOAA people, some really high level folks attending!

I am not sure this is the right fit for us - doesn't look like much in the way of an NSF connection in terms of an outreach activity.

NOAA EDM 2018 attendees list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SjK1kF9rkT0zzZO_KGgQs_tVjIZAe_1KNVP5tZzlMgc/edit#gid=0

vlraymond commented 6 years ago

3rd attempt to sync with Sheekela planned for Thursday 3/15.

vlraymond commented 6 years ago

Received slides from Sheekela and will share feedback and new content with her by 4/16

vlraymond commented 6 years ago

Provided Sheekela with comments and some talking points and new content on 4/15. She asked Amber to contribute to some slides. I can provide content for those slides if you want @aebudden

vlraymond commented 6 years ago

Trip report:

Arrived late Sunday night / Monday morning. Attended sessions Monday and Tuesday, flew back early Wednesday am.

Sheekela's session was on Tuesday afternoon and was well attended with 30 - 40 attendees. Other speakers spoke about arctic data portals and arctic observing stations. Sheekela gave a good talk about the ADC and its partnership with NCEI. She highlighted the outreach and training, data science fellowships, ARCUS Witness articles (2016 and 2018), data highlights page, as well as the RFP for synthesis WG. She received many questions (more than any other presenter in the session) about data provenance and arcticdata.io, as well as our replication locations. She received one comment from an attendee that he had (during the talk) downloaded data and it turned out it was a .zip with over a 100 .csvs in it. He commented that he wished it was just using ERDAP.

Other sessions attended were about Big Data Project, BEDI, Data Life Cycle Highlights, NOAA's DMP (included a hands-on workshop), Lessons learned/mistakes made, Cloud Projects at NOAA. This workshop was actually really interesting. I had had my reservations about going, however I am really glad I did.

Ideas to share for future events at ADC

Lightning Reports

Each session chair had one slide and one minute to recap the discussion that took place in their session. This was presented t the entire workshop audience, and was both humorous and informative.

Conference-wide discussion about the future of data management and archiving at NOAA

Entire workshop engaged in a discussion about the future of data management at NOAA including dissenting opinions about engaging cloud companies or not in that process. Was especially interesting to witness given the recurring cloud conversations that Matt is having with NSF.

sched.com

great platform for workshops / conferences. Likely is paid service but was really excellent.

Sidebars

Sandy Starkweather - (CIRES) talked about the polar data planning summit Taniel Uttal - (OAR) talked about the ADC and the synthesis proposal Peggy Sullivan - (OAR) talked about ADC's doi process. She was concerned if NCEI is giving dois and ADC gives dois will there be duplicates Jennifer Sevadjian - gave har Chris' email as she had questions about ADC and dataone's api (which I couldn't answer) Melissa Zweng - introduced myself to her