Key word here is "principle" - at the moment there is no explicit compulsion (beyond the PM's directive <http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/statements-and-articles/2010/05/letter- to-government-departments-on-opening-up-data-51204> : "From July 2010, government departments and agencies should ensure that any information published includes the underlying data in an open standardised format.").
As you know, I'm doing my best to ensure that INSPIRE compliance => data.gov.uk compliance. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 24 September 2010 13:49 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ndg-technical] SIS Information Architecture - BusinessProcesses and People Potential for some tension between 'Single Face of NERC' and the data.gov.uk principle? Is NERC subject to data.gov.uk? Simon ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Doughty Sent: 24 September 2010 20:07 To: NERC DataGrid Technical List Subject: [ndg-technical] SIS Information Architecture - Business Processes and People Dear All Following a meeting, some phone calls and some emails we now have a few discussion points for SIS Information Architecture - Business Processes and People: 1. Projects producing data should have a project reference number that is recorded in their Discovery metadata. The NERC Discovery Profile based on GEMINI2 should be updated to include this reference number. 2. Projects producing data should have the option of making their metadata (discovery et al) and data services available to the 'Single Face of NERC'. o Those projects not wanting to make their metadata and services available to the 'single face of NERC' should provide a documented rationale behind this decision. o Those projects that do want to make their metadata and services available to the 'single face of NERC' should provide documented estimated timings, volumetrics etc to the administrative function supporting the 'single face of NERC'. 3. The point made in 2 infers that there is a need for human intervention as the decisions are likely to be subjective. Thus an administration role seems to be required that would oversee the population of the 'single face of NERC', they would also check that metadata is supplied as and when expected. o A NERC Data Management Plan system may provide a way of informing such an administrator with the information they should expect to receive from Research Centres. 4. The Data Management Specialists (i.e. not the data providers/scientists) at each Research Centre should be responsible for ensuring that the metadata and data services are made available to the 'Single Face of NERC'. 5. The 'Single Face of NERC' is likely to need an ongoing programme of promotion. The responsibility for this could rest with the administrator. 6. Management Information from the 'Single Face of NERC' should be produced (we are assuming that the nature, frequency etc of this is being covered by the Data Centre Metrics Project) and used to guide investment decisions. This infers that a manager needs to have operational responsibility for the 'Single Face of NERC'. 7. If NERC wishes to retain its lead in this area it should retain a Research Capability. Please post any comments or questions to this mail group. Regards James Doughty and Carl Watson -- Scanned by iCritical.
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