Social, Political & Financial Issues Connecting Geodata in and between Government Agencies Remarks at GeoData panel, 2014-06-17 Jeff de La Beaujardière, PhD NOAA Data Management Architect Chair, Environmental Data Management Committee [email protected]+1 301-713-7175
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Social, Political & Financial Issues Connecting Geodata in and
between Government AgenciesRemarks at GeoData panel, 2014-06-17
Jeff de La Beaujardière, PhDNOAA Data Management Architect
Political Issues• Government propensity for large commercial
contracts to solve IT problems• Too much focus on the initial customer• Failure to plan & budget in advance for data
management• Lack of consequences for poor planning• Tendency to form groups or start projects to address
entire data management life-cycle, rather than focusing on improvements to cross-cutting domains (e.g., discovery, metadata, access, preservation, etc.) and defining interfaces between them.
Recommendations• US:– Continue inter-agency coordination groups• and clarify their overlapping scopes
• Agency:– Make Programs & Program Managers responsible for proper
management of data they produce• Require that DM plans be written and followed
– Give credit to employees for good DM practices• Both via employee reviews and data citation metrics
• Technical:– Automate data management at the worker level– Give interoperable software stacks IT security pre-approval– Make use of Cloud Computing where relevant