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Organizing the Consortium
Questions to consider:
- What does it mean to be a member of the Consortium?
- What kind of structure is desired? necessary? (e.g. highly structured vs. loose)
- What are some key/required components of the Charter?
- Should a Charter come out quickly or do we need to take our time? Phases?
Discovery: Connecting mechanisms together
Questions to consider:
- How do we handle cross-disciplinary discovery
- How do we leverage community/discipline-specific tools/mechanisms
- Massive harvesting to a central index, vs.
- Live searches of community-specific tools, vs.
- Hybrid
- Where do community-specific metadata come in?
- How important (and where) are cross-discipline metadata standards? Are translators/semantic mappers important?
- How can the user smoothly transition into discipline specific tools
- How do we leverage community/discipline-specific tools/mechanisms
- Big results problem / Browsing problem: will new strategies be needed?
- Search granularity?
Repositories: technologies and federation
Questions to consider:
- What are the different classes of repositories that need to be integrated?
- preservation vs. access
- limited-lived data?
- dark data?
- What are some of the key APIs (generally)
- Who will be running repositories?
- What are the modes for funding repositories
Publishing: IDs, the publishing process, role of publishers, tools
Questions to consider:
- How does the research and publishing process need to evolve to incorporate data
- What are the key requirements (from publishers?) needed to preserve the quality of publications?
- Should we be able to cite data products just like literature? Data citation statistics?
- What are the key standards that need to be incorporated into the data publishing process?
- What tools are necessary to help authors prepare data for publication? How important are discipline-specific features (e.g. metadata)?