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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 Accomplishments
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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CENDI 2008-1
FY13 Accomplishments
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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([email protected])
Science.gov Alliance Co-chairs:
Tina Gheen/LOC Mary Moulton/DOT([email protected]) ([email protected])
Executive Director: Bonnie Carroll/IIa
CENDI Chair: Don Hagen/NTIS([email protected])
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