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Group Session November 21, 2025

The Who and Where of Earth and Environmental Science Data

Plenary: RDA 26th Plenary Meeting (VP26)

Submitted by
Lesley Wyborn
Recording

Meeting objectives

Collaborative session notes:

Open session notes

  1. Determine if there is sufficient interest in establishing a ECR cohort for the ESESD-CoP (suggestion from the P25 breakout).
  2. Round the world tour on ESESD related activities in six continents.
  3. Feature the GeoFAIR project on interoperability of data across seismology, oceans and hydrology.

Meeting presenters

Shelley Stall, Lesley Wyborn, Alice Fremand, Emanuel and Soeding.

Meeting agenda

  1. 0-10 Minutes (5 minutes): Welcome and logistics (Shelley Stall, USA)
  2. 5-15 Minutes (10 minutes): A quick review of the ESESD COP and the Organisation & Project Catalog andVocabulary Catalog (Lesley Wyborn, Australia)
  3. 15-25 Minutes (10 Minutes): Early Career Cohort for the ESESD-COP (Alice Fremand, UK)
  4. 25-40 Minutes (15 Minutes): Featured project: The NSF GeoFAIR project on interoperability of data across seismology, oceans and hydrology (Shelley Stall, US)
  5. 40-85 Minutes (45 Minutes) Round the world tour of some data initiatives in ESESD across the continents.  A series of introductory talks ona selected group of global/national EESD infrastructures followed by group discussion on the best way for the ESESD CoP members to connect with them.
  6. (85-90 Minutes (5 minutes): Wrap up and define the 3 key takeaways (Lesley Wyborn, Aust

Target audience

All stakeholders with connections to Earth and environmental science data: scientists, repositories, infrastructure providers, indexers, publishers, editors, knowledge graph providers, …..

 

Group Activities and Scope

The idea of forming an ESES Data Community of Practice was first suggested in 2023. An interest meeting was held on 6 February 2023 with an initial set of recommended topics and statements of support captured.  Additional feedback on the importance and challenges of the new Community of Practice was captured at both P20 (March 2023) and P21 (October 2023) as a topic during the ESIP/RDA Earth, Space, and Environment Sciences IG sessions. The Statement of Work was developed during P22 with final review during P23.  The Statement of Work was submitted for review and endorsement in early 2025 and accepted.

Additional links to informative material

  1. Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences Data Community of Practice Statement of Work
  2. ESESD CoP Community catalogues
    1. A Catalogue of Earth, Space and Environmental Science Groups).
    2. Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences Data Vocabulary, Ontology and Semantic Repositories/Services.

Short Group Status

The Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences Data Community of Practices Statement of Work (SoQ) was endorsed in 2025 and has participated RDA plenaries as follows.

  1. P23 Costa Rica (November 2024):  Introducing the Earth, Space, and Environmental Science Community of Practice
  2. P24 Virtual Plenary (May 2025): (Calling Interested Parties in Earth and Environmental Data and Research to a new COP) we substantially revised the SoW and have resubmitted it.
  3. P25  Brisbane (Oct. 2025, part of IDW): Determining what the priorities are for the ESESD COP.

Applicable Pathways

FAIR, CARE, TRUST - Adoption, Implementation, and Deployment
Data Infrastructures and Environments - Discipline Focused
Data Lifecycles - Versioning, Provenance, Citation, and Reward

Avoid conflict with the following groups

Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem IG
Coordinating Earth, Space, and Environmental Science Data Preservation and Scholarly Publication Pro

Please indicate at least (3) three breakout slots that would suit your meeting.

Breakout 1. Monday, 16 March, 13:30-15:00 UTC
Breakout 3. Tuesday, 17 March, 07:00-08:30 UTC
Breakout 5. Tuesday, 17 March, 22:30-00:00 UTC