2018 ESIP Summer Meeting

Domain-specific data repositories have been established to curate, archive, and publish earth and environmental observation data in response to the need for archive per requests from funders and publishers. Their domain-specific approach has proven successful in changing the research culture and mobilizing data, developing best practices and standards, and training a data management workforce. The Sustainable Data Management Cluster draws on the collective experience of repositories to promote common collaboration and curation strategies. A major activity of this group has been metrics for calculating Return on Investment (RoI) in such repositories. In this session, we will discuss draft 1 of our paper “A discussion of Return on Investment for data repositories in earth and environmental sciences”, and begin work on draft 2.