1 Update to the Board of Research Data and Information CENDI Federal STI Managers’ Group CENDI Federal STI Managers’ Group 30 November 2010 Lisa Weber, NARA CENDI Chair

2 Interagency group of senior federal STI managers who agree to cooperate by o Exchanging information and ideas o Sharing resources o Undertaking joint initiatives o From policy to standards to operations 14 member agencies manage over 97% of the annual federal R&D budget Two formalized partnerships o ICSTI and NFAIS What is CENDI?

3 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 1. STI Coordination and Leadership 2. Improvement of STI Systems 3. STI Understanding CENDI’s Mission and Goals

4 to 14 National libraries, departmental STI centers, cross cutting information organizations, research funding programs Evolving CENDI 4

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

External IT Environment Current Environmental Drivers Influencing STI 6 National priorities

Focus a large and heterogeneous CENDI Complex and changing technological and political environment Resource Challenges 7 Biggest Challenge

8 FY10 Highlights of Accomplishments & Impacts FY10 Highlights of Accomplishments & Impacts

Representation on Data.gov Senior Advisory Board NITRD discussions on opportunities to cooperate Public Access key topic o o Regular updates with ARL/SPARC o o Reauthorization of America Competes with Open Access o o FRPAA o o House Science Roundtable o o OSTP RFI and Administration Position – CENDI advice to implementation Open Government Directive Reviewed Open government plans analyzed Tracking American Competes Act as high profile legislation STEM Education 9 Leadership in STI Policy

ORGANIZATIONCONTACTAREA OSTPChris GreerData; Cyber OSTPDiane DiEuliisOpen Access OSTPKei KoizumiR&D Dashboard OSTPBeth NoveckOpen Government OMBMargo SchwabData.gov 10 Policy Leaders met with CENDI Advice Sought; Expertise Shared

TOPICORGANIZATIONCONTACT Cloud ComputingLockheed MartinMelvin B. Greer Crowd Sourcing and the CloudNISTTimothy Grance Mobile ComputingNLMLoren Frant Interactive PublishingNLMMichael Ackerman Creating Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Johns Hopkins UniversitySayeed Choudhury Introduction to the Semantic Web: The Basics that an STI Manager Should Know NITRDGeorge Strawn Semantic Medline: A Proof of Concept NLMTom Rindflesch 11 CENDI Open Meetings for Educating on Technologies, Networking and Connecting

TOPICDATEATTENDANCE Mobile Computing: Delivering Content to the Research Community 11/ Scientific Data Management6/1087 feds+ 25 agencies Open Source Software and Copyright: Legal and Business Considerations for Government Use 7/10>120 Seminar Series on Issues and Answer in Digitization (with FLICC and FADGI) On-going> Workshops Provide Cost Effective Educational Opportunities

13 Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright and Computer Software o o Released November 2009, o o (3,440 requests) Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright: Issues Affecting the US Government o o Revised March and August 2007, August 2008 o o (~25,000 hits) CENDI Best Sellers

14 Internships and fellowships section made searchable Image search prototype developed New databases added Library Journal named Science.gov as a 2006 Top Web Reference Science.gov model used to launch Worldwidescience.org o Multi-lingual search Annual source queries exceed 25.2M Named one of Top 10 Government Websites by GCN. RSS feeds from 11 federal agencies compiled and displayed in real time Science.gov’s Continued Success

Highest rated topic on FY11 Planning Survey E-Science -- Data Intensive Science Interactive publications Technical and policy issues surrounding the management of scientific data – learn from documentation experience Joint sponsorship of scientific data management workshop – Held June 29-July 1, 2010 Monitor activities on new types of content Data Citation and DOIs (with CODATA) 15 CENDI Interests in “Data”

Challenged by OSTP Chris Greer “Science2Jobs” – a work in Process Vision – Fully interoperable data & information network that stimulates job growth by enabling new opportunities for innovation and discovery Goal and Objectives – Expand Science.gov to drive data- intensive science -- including research, education and applications o o Create a semantically rich information network across agencies; o o Extend the scope of “data objects” presently served o o Integrate other agency capabilities with Science.gov so that the whole becomes a larger network that enables business innovation by a broad array of stakeholders 16 Priority for FY11: Develop a CENDI Grand Challenge Priority for FY11: Develop a CENDI Grand Challenge

CENDI Chair: Lisa Weber/NARA CENDI Co-Chair: Sharon Jordan/OSTI Executive Director: Bonnie Carroll/IIa 17 For More CENDI Information