CENDI Federal STI Managers Group Update to the

CENDI Federal STI Managers’ Group Update to the Board of Research Data on Information Lisa Weber, NARA CENDI Chair August 29, 2012 1

What is CENDI? • 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 • 13 member agencies from organizations that manage over 97% of the Federal R&D budget • Two formalized partnerships – ICSTI – NFAIS 2

CENDI’s Mission and Goals To help improve the productivity of federal science- and technology-based programs through effective scientific, technical, and related information support systems. 1. STI Coordination and Leadership 2. Improvement of STI Systems 3. STI Understanding 3

CENDI Interests in Data and Information Policy • Continued Development of the Grand Challenge: • • • i-Science 2 Jobs Value and Impact of Scientific Data and Information Management Continued Development of Connections with Policy Leaders and Initiatives CENDI/NFAIS Workshop on Big Data (Dec. 11, 2012 at Library of Congress) 4

CENDI Grand Challenge i-Science 2 Jobs • Vision • Science. gov platform – Connecting with Data. gov (data and documentation) – 10 th anniversary • Buy-in with related Communities of Practice • Increase visibility 5

Value and Impact of Scientific Data • Pursuing the Value Proposition for CENDI members and our programs • Involving other Communities of Practice in the information value chain – HCI/IM Big Data Working Group – Tech Transfer – Opportunity with BRDI to use forum results as input for future meeting to explore metrics and impacts 6

Connections with Policy Leaders and Initiatives • Todd Park, Federal CTO and Mike Stebbins, • • OSTP spoke at July planning meeting Steve Van. Roekel, Federal CIO will speak to CENDI on Sept. 6 Office of Science and Technology Policy Interagency Working Groups NSF/NITRD, NIST National Computer Laboratory National Science Board Task Force on Scientific Data 7

Hot Topics in Big Data Workshop December 11, 2012, LOC • Big Data: An Overview of Key Concepts and Issues • Institutional Players and Their Roles and the Challenges: Scientific Data Centers and Infrastructures • Data Citation, Data Linking and Supplemental Materials • Big Data and Emerging Skill Set Requirements – BRDI Study ideas will be represented • Data Analytics and Data Mining: The Approaching Tidal Wave 8

Priorities for FY 13 Work Plan in Development • • Linking data and documents Semantic Web/Search Big Data and data analytics Repositories Mobile/wireless Data Citation Best practices in public private partnerships STI Jam and Datapalooza 9

For More CENDI Information • www. cendi. gov • CENDI Chair: Lisa Weber/NARA – (lisa. weber@nara. gov) • CENDI Co-Chair: Jerry Sheehan/NLM – (Sheehan. JR@nlm. nih. gov) • Executive Director: Bonnie Carroll/IIA – (bcarroll@iiaweb. com) 10

Note about NARA • Managing Government Records Directive (M-12 -18) • Agencies must manage all permanent electronic records in electronic format by December 31, 2019. Plans in place by December 31, 2013. • Agencies must manage both permanent and temporary email records in an accessible electronic format by December 31, 2016. • Agencies must designate a senior agency official to oversee its records management program by November, 2012. • http: //www. whitehouse. gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoran da/2012/m-12 -18. pdf 11

Additional Information about CENDI 12

CENDI MEMBERS • 13 Federal Government agencies • National libraries, departmental STI centers, cross cutting information organizations, research funding programs 13

CENDI Members (Principals and Alternates) Observers and Cooperating Organizations Multi-agency Coordination Activity Copyright and Intellectual Property Working Group Digitization Specifications Terminology Resources in a Networked Environment Automated Harvesting of Metadata Semantic Technologies Web harvesting and crawling Secretariat Science. gov Alliance Principals Alliance Alternates Content Management Promotions STI Policy Working Group Institutional Repositories Personally Identifiable Information (PII) 14

Science. gov’s Continued Success • Annual source queries exceed 44 M • Named one of Top 10 Government Websites by GCN. • RSS feeds from 11 federal agencies compiled and displayed in real time • Internships and fellowships section made searchable • Image search • New databases added • • Library Journal named Science. gov as a 2006 Top Web Reference Science. gov model used to launch Worldwidescience. org 15