The SDMS WG directive is to
- Promote and enable
- Ethically open access to data;
- Norms of fair attribution and use of data;
- Long term preservation of data;
- Develop guidance material for the SDMS;
- Facilitate the adoption and implementation of standards that will enable free, open and timely access to data;
- Facilitate interoperability of data and systems as needed to support the needs of SIOS scientific community;
- Establish expert groups to examine specific questions or coordinate the implementation of SIOS data management and sharing solutions;
- Engage in relevant national, regional, global or discipline specific data management activities to ensure that SDMS activities are relevant, cost efficient and sustainable;
- Coordinate the review of SIOS data management plans submitted by projects requesting access to the SIOS Infrastructure.
The SDMS WG work programme for 2023
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SDMS WG administrative tasks
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Virtual meetings every other month and one physical meeting at PNW2023
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Interaction with other working groups and data management communities
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Review and contribute to the SIOS Risk Management Plan
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Development of work plan for 2024
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Development of SDMS documents and material
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Review and update the Interoperability Guidelines Document
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Review and contribute to the Key Performance Indicators Document
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Review and develop the Use Case Document
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Evaluation and development of training material for user workshops
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Review and contribute to the SIOS Core Data Document
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Integration of contributing data centres
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Achieve and add to the routine metadata harvesting from partners.
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Establish OAI-PMH or OGC CSW interfaces for discovery metadata for all partners with data centres
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Update the gap analysis for data centre implementation and their compliance with Interoperability Guidelines
- Monitoring of KPIs related to end point availability at partners
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Improving functionality of the SDMS user interfaces.
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Development of long term plan for integration of SIOS Core data
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SIOS Core Data Implementation Plan with institutional commitments and timeline.
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Partners with relevant SIOS core datasets to identify core datasets and identify these in the discovery metadata following the tagging agreed
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Development of SDMS tools
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Improvement of a validation tool for NetCDF
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Improvement of excel template generator (in synergy with ENVRI-FAIR activities)
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Improvement of Rosetta for the transformation of data
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Tools to create the NetCDFs from Shape and KML files
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Organization of the data management session during the conferences
Associated task forces
- Training task force
- Work Plan task force
- Core Data Curation Call task force