Cooperative Design, Development, and Management of Interdisciplinary Data to Support the Global Environmental Change Research Community

Downs, Robert R.; Chen, Robert S.

doi:10.1300/j122v23n04_02

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“…Such inter-organizational cooperation includes collaborating on projects; sharing skills, procedures, specifications, training and professional development opportunities; and identifying contacts within other organizations to attain specific objectives or resolve a particular problem. Participants' statements regarding inter-organization cooperation are consistent with observations that organizations can improve practices for managing and preserving geospatial data by cooperating with other organizations (Downs & Chen, 2003). By cooperating with other organizations, the staff within each cooperating organization can share their knowledge and assist each other in attaining common goals.…”

Section: Inter-organizational Cooperationsupporting

confidence: 56%

“…By bringing this expertise to bear, these organizations improved the management of data developed for earlier projects and ensured that later projects also could benefit by reusing the data and the methods applied earlier to develop these data. Similarly, Downs and Chen (2003) describe how the establishment of cross-disciplinary teams can contribute to the development of interdisciplinary data products and to the provision of services that support their use.…”

Section: Data Acquisition and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Organizational needs for managing and preserving geospatial data and related electronic records

Downs¹,

Chen²

2005

Data Sci. J.

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Government agencies and other organizations are required to manage and preserve records that they create and use to facilitate future access and reuse. The increasing use of geospatial data and related electronic records presents new challenges for these organizations, which have relied on traditional practices for managing and preserving records in printed form. This article reports on an investigation of current and future needs for managing and preserving geospatial electronic records on the part of localand state-level organizations in the New York City metropolitan region. It introduces the study and describes organizational needs observed, including needs for organizational coordination and interorganizational cooperation throughout the entire data lifecycle.

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Section: Inter-organizational Cooperationsupporting

confidence: 56%

Section: Data Acquisition and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organizational needs for managing and preserving geospatial data and related electronic records

Downs¹,

Chen²

2005

Data Sci. J.

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“…Requirements for usability of the data are determined from an identification of community needs, which are obtained from the current literature, recent events, the SEDAC User Working Group, NASA, and other working groups and committees (Downs and Chen, 2003). Such determinations include the identification, selection, and review of data products and services, the selection and conversion to multiple data formats for enabling access to the data, and the development of tools and services for using the data, which evolve over time to reflect changes in community practice.…”

Section: Fostering Data Usability By Implementing Dmp-3: Data Encodingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Implementing the Group on Earth Observations Data Management Principles: Observations of a Scientific Data Center

Downs

2017

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Data Management Principles (DMP) provide direction for managing geospatial data and related information products and services. Offering opportunities for enabling discovery, accessibility, usability, preservation, and curation, the GEO DMP challenge repositories, such as scientific archives and data centers, to improve practices that foster the use of Earth science data today and in the future. In addition, the Data Management Principles Implementation Guidelines (IG) offer many practical suggestions for implementing the DMP with examples that can inform the consideration of options for improving geospatial data management practices. Implementing such improvements offers value to the users of geospatial data by enabling data providers to support the use of the data products and services that they disseminate. Adopting these improvements also can assist repositories in their efforts to meet the requirements for attaining data repository certification, which offers value for repositories and their stakeholders. This article shows how repositories can improve data management practices for geospatial data by adopting the GEO DMP, with examples drawn from a scientific data center. Current and future opportunities for improving data management practices to attain data repository certification also are described along with practical approaches that repositories can adopt in the short term.

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“…These according to the UK's Design Council [10] are design leaders who drive the development of a company's design function ensuring its recognition internally and externally. Downs and Chen [12] have highlighted that design champions are a key stakeholder in the design process whose main role is to provide project leadership. The UK's Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) [7] and the UK's Department of Health [9] have both been campaigning for the inclusion of design champions in design processes.…”

Section: Design Champions As Stakeholdersmentioning

confidence: 99%

The different roles of ‘Design Process Champions’ for digital libraries in African higher education

Ngimwa

Adams

2013

Int J Digit Libr

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The concept of design stakeholders is central to effective design of digital libraries. We report on research findings that identified the presence of a key subset of stakeholders which we term 'design process champions'. Our findings have identified that these champions can change interaction patterns and the eventual output of the other stakeholders (project participants) in the design process of digital library projects. This empirical research is based upon 38 interviews with key stakeholders and a review of documentary evidence in ten innovative digital library design projects (e.g. mobile clinical libraries) located in three African universities in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa. Through a grounded theory approach two different types of the 'design process champions' emerged from the data with varying levels of effectiveness in the design process: (i) domain champions and (ii) multidisciplinary champions. The domain champions assume a 'siloed' approach of engagement while the multidisciplinary champions take on a participatory engagement throughout the design process. A discussion of the implications of information specialists functioning as domain champions is highlighted. We conclude by suggesting that the multidisciplinary champions' approach is particularly useful in supporting sustainability of digital library design projects.

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Cooperative Design, Development, and Management of Interdisciplinary Data to Support the Global Environmental Change Research Community

Cited by 6 publications

References 6 publications

Organizational needs for managing and preserving geospatial data and related electronic records

Organizational needs for managing and preserving geospatial data and related electronic records

Implementing the Group on Earth Observations Data Management Principles: Observations of a Scientific Data Center

The different roles of ‘Design Process Champions’ for digital libraries in African higher education

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