Data Management Council Face-to-Face Meeting February 4 – 5, 2010 St. Petersburg, FL WELCOME

Charter / Leadership  Draft Charter  Mission/Goal  Council Membership  Roles and responsibilities  Communications plan  Other discussion and modifications  Path Forward  Naming Chair/Co-Chairs

Data Management Activities and Needs Summary from each PIT on their Team’s data management activities: Nutrient EIA Environmental Education Water Quality Habitat Conservation and Restoration Coastal Community Resiliency

Data Management Activities and Needs Identify your top two (2) Data Management priorities. Do you have key data management issues or activities for which you need DMC support? Describe how your PIT is addressing what data you have and what data you need. What role do you see the DMC playing in supporting the data management needs and activities of GOMA?

Data Management Activities and Needs Top two (2) Data Management priorities. 1. (CCR/HCRT/NUT/WQ/EIA) Have access to data collected by other PITS 2. (CCR/NUT/WQ/EIA) Have our data in format accessible by other PITs 3. (CCR/NUT/EIA/WQ) Increase coordination and reduce duplication of effort in data collection/data management/technical pursuits 4. (HCRT) Distribution of publications - common website, etc… 5. (NUT) Facilitate or recommend metadata in order to document quality assurance.

Data Management Activities and Needs Top two (2) Data Management priorities. 6. (EIA) How to make data discoverable most effectively - common portal? Ecowatch? 7. (EEN) access to simplified data - product level information - ability to export for lay person to manipulate - excel, etc. 8. (EEN) data entry tool and repository for data collected by volunteers 9. (WQ) recommendations for repository and stewardship for shared GOMA resources (i.e. data and storage applications) 10 (WQ) chris's water quality metadata content model

Data Management Activities and Needs Key data management issues or activities for which you need DMC support? 1. NUT - Nutrient Criteria Studies - data repository and accessibility

Data Management Activities and Needs Describe how your PIT is addressing what data you have and what data you need

Data Management Activities and Needs Role of the DMC in supporting the data management needs and activities of GOMA?

Data Management Activities and Needs Discussion of data inventory. Thoughts on approach. Develop a listing of where to find data that is related to gulf activities. where do you go to discover it where do you go to get it (mary's qualifiers - what data do you have (checkboxes)? how do I get it? How do I understand it? Mary will send us the model for this.

Presentation: Building Data Capability in Chesapeake Bay Doreen Vetter Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Annapolis, MD Mary McCaffery Office of Environmental Information Large Aquatic Ecosystem Council U.S. Environmental Protection Program Washington DC

Tools Discussion What Tools do the DMC want/need for organization and communication GOMA Website (AMT restructuring)? Wiki? Tools (existing or new) to help with Data Management EcoWatch Exchange Network MERMAid Others (e.g. GCOOS Data Portal, OGC Service set up,…) Crosswalk of tools to needs from Data Management discussion

Prioritizing Next Steps (from Data Management Needs/Activities Discussion) Near term Long term – is a “strategic plan” needed?

Meeting Schedule Conference calls / webEx meetings? Monthly? Quarterly? Face-to-face schedule?

Action items/Assignments

It's a wrap! Thank You!