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Update to the Board of Research Data on Information

CENDIINCREASING THE IMPACT OF

FEDERALLY FUNDED SCIENCE

September 23, 2013

Jerry SheehanCENDI Deputy Chair

FY13 Accomplishments

• Interagency group of senior federal STI managers who agree to cooperate by

• Exchanging information and ideas• Sharing resources• Undertaking joint initiatives• From policy to standards to operations

• 15 member agencies from organizations that manage over 97% of the Federal R&D budget

• Two formalized partnerships• ICSTI• NFAIS

• Many cooperating organizations

What is CENDI?

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To increase the impact of federally funded science and technology by improving the management and dissemination of data and information. CENDI provides a forum for sharing expertise, promoting best practices in information management, and developing and executing collaborative projects.

1. STI Coordination and Leadership2. Improvement of STI Systems3. STI Understanding (Training)

CENDI’sCENDI’s Updated Updated Mission and GoalsMission and Goals

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FY13: A Year of Openness• GPO and Department of Education return to CENDI

membership

• Technical meeting sessions opened to

other observers

• Focus on Public Access and White House Memo

• Increased attention to Big Data and Open Data

• Successful CENDI STI Data Jam [9/19/13]

• Culminating in FY13 Planning Meeting:

“Going Open! Challenges and Opportunities”

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CENDI Contributions to Public Access Discussions

• Demonstrations of agency public access systems - DOE, NAL, and NLM

• Engagement with senior Administration officials, e.g., Todd Park (Federal CTO) and Mike Stebbins (OSTP)

• Regular updates on activities of interagency working groups.

• Frequent meetings, discussions, papers to inform Members’ thinking

• Member participation in OSTP interagency working groups

• Interactions with other groups involved in the discussion: BRDI, ARL, SPARC, CNI, NIST, NITRD

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Increasing Focus on Data

• CENDI members participate in OSTP Interagency WG on Digital Data – CENDI discussions and work papers inform the process

• Presentations from Research Data Alliance (Alan Blatecky and Fran Berman), Data.gov (Marina Martin ), NITRD (Faisal D’Souza) and NSF (Howard Wactlar )

• Expand interactions with data community– Continue relations with BRDI, RDA, and CODATA– Invited data community members as guests to July meeting

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• “Big Data: What You Need to Know Now!”– CENDI/NFAIS/FLICC workshop was successfully

held December 2012. Hosted by FLICC. – Attended by 112 people from 66 organizations.

FY13 Accomplishments

CENDI Copyright WG

• Copyright glossary provided to OSTP Interagency WG on Publications.

• White paper on Mass Digitization – address gaps related to digitization of

government information in Copyright Office. white paper

• Continued work on “Permissions – Government Produced and Non-Government Produced Works: Best Practices for U.S. Government Agencies”

• Copyright FAQ maintained as a “Best Seller”

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Science.gov Celebrates 10th Anniversary

  Q: Which is older, the National Library of Medicine, or its parent federal agency, the National Institutes of Health?

  A: The National Library of Medicine is 51 years older than the National Institutes of Health

• Innovative Use of Social Media• Trivia Campaign tweets questions twice each

week– Re-tweeted by PBS, AAAS, NPR, Popular

Science, EurekAlert, American Institute of Physics and agencies

• Resources from 15 federal agencies• Science.gov searches 59 databases and

more than 2,250 websites • Added several large multi-media

databases• 1.3 M unique queries/year• Mobile usage growing• Ciencia.gov usage increased 4x between

June and July

FY13 Accomplishments

Plans for FY14 (In Process)• Implementation of public access –

publications and data• Issues around data –

– Data-publication linking– Partnerships

• 2013 Workshop on “Open Science” (November 12, 2013)

• Follow up to Jam – an STI Data “Palooza”• Science.gov

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Implementation of Public Access

• Facilitate interagency cooperation and information exchange

• “Repository” best practices• Facilitate interaction with other stakeholders • Consider role of Science.gov -

entry point to agency systems?• Copyright WG contributions to

discussions of access and re-use rights

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• Repositories – approaches to systems design and preservation

• Hosting/archiving datasets as a service

• Management of multi-media (A-V, etc.)

• Metadata for locators

• Data management plans – important elements

• Data sensitivity issues, e.g., human subjects

• Supporting tools and infrastructure, e.g., – Persistent identifiers

– Author identifiers

– Funding source acknowledgements

• Training, education, workforce

• Build capacity for data management & curation

Data Management - Topics of Interest

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Thank You!!

For More Information: http://www.cendi.gov

CENDI Co-Chair: Jerry Sheehan/NLM(SheehanJr@nlm.nih.gov)

Science.gov Alliance Co-chairs:

Tina Gheen/LOC Mary Moulton/DOT(tghe@loc.gov) (mary.moulton@dot.gov)

Executive Director: Bonnie Carroll/IIa

(bcarroll@iiaweb.com)

CENDI Chair: Don Hagen/NTIS(dhagen@ntis.gov)