1. New DMWG Sub-team: Exit Survey Come on in! The water’s fine!

2. “Did you hear Bob is retiring?” “No – when?” “This afternoon.” (After you think about how nice it would be to retire, you suddenly remember…) Why? Here’s usually what happens:

3. “Oh no – he has some data I need! I better go talk to Bob and get the data before he goes.” But it’s too late – Bob has already left the building – for good! Why? Here’s usually what happens:

4. If you’re “lucky:”

5. If you’re really “lucky:”

6. If you need that data Bob had:

7. What we’d like to do:

8. Actually, what we’d like to do:

9.  Like to start up a small team to work on this effort  Build on existing efforts  Create unofficial document  Short turnaround – share 1 st draft with DMWG  Eventually disseminate to those who need it Sounds great! How do I join?

10. Before I go, a joke: Records management – get it?

11.  Contact Heather Henkel (hhenkel@usgs.gov)hhenkel@usgs.gov  Even if you can’t make the meetings, but have something to share, please email me  Next month... (next slide) Have ideas? Want to be involved?

12.  Martha Watt and Steve Tessler  Talking about: the history of the archive program, how it works, its current status, and address its relevance to current DM activities and applicability to setting up other local data archives (or having a Science Center provide the service to others)  They would like feedback from the CDI DMWG on this  But wait – there’s more from Viv: the Data Release WG has requested the DMWG review the draft Data Review Checklist and Metadata Review Process Guidelines document Coming next month: A Model Verification Process and Model Archive Repository

13.  Take it away, John SDLC Update