National Data Services IG - Meeting at P5

National Data Services IG meeting held at P5 in San Diego, on Monday, 9 March, 13:00-14:00

Participants:

• Having a group of National Data Services was seen as a good idea in general, and RDA seems a good place for it.
• The group will need to look more closely at relationships with the Large Scale Data meeting held on Sunday and the Wednesday meeting.
• The group also needs to avoid overlap with other groups, in particular we need to look at Domain Repositories IG, Data Fabric IG.
• Also should create a "scan" of what national data services there are, and  to identify components that make sense to do nationally.
• It was suggested to have a workshop to look at what to do in more detail at P6 in Paris.
• It is good to have a "peer group" of national data services. The group should also look at exchanging more than just information, e.g.  using / exchanging / adopting data, metadata, services, etc.
• Could be useful to develop a typology of data services , e.g. looking at the following dimensions: National dimension, discipline dimension, services dimension. E.g., some countries are relatively small and focus on one national data service, whereas others may have a consortium of data services.
• It could also be useful to look at how long national data services have been around for (starting up / well-established)
• What national data services are missing from this group? Denmark (starting up), Germany (not one national service as such - Helmholtz, plus possibly 3 other organisations), Norstore (Norway, https://www.norstore.no/), China.