FY13 Accomplishments 1 Update to the Board of Research Data on Information CENDI INCREASING THE IMPACT OF FEDERALLY FUNDED SCIENCE September 23, 2013 Jerry Sheehan CENDI Deputy Chair

FY13 Accomplishments Interagency group of senior federal STI managers who agree to cooperate by Exchanging information and ideas Sharing resources Undertaking joint initiatives From policy to standards to operations 15 member agencies from organizations that manage over 97% of the Federal R&D budget Two formalized partnerships ICSTI NFAIS Many cooperating organizations What is CENDI? 2

FY13 Accomplishments 3 To increase the impact of federally funded science and technology by improving the management and dissemination of data and information. CENDI provides a forum for sharing expertise, promoting best practices in information management, and developing and executing collaborative projects. 1. STI Coordination and Leadership 2. Improvement of STI Systems 3. STI Understanding (Training) CENDI’s Updated Mission and Goals 3

FY13 Accomplishments FY13: A Year of Openness GPO and Department of Education return to CENDI membership Technical meeting sessions opened to other observers Focus on Public Access and White House Memo Increased attention to Big Data and Open Data Successful CENDI STI Data Jam [9/19/13] Culminating in FY13 Planning Meeting: “Going Open! Challenges and Opportunities” 4

FY13 Accomplishments CENDI Contributions to Public Access Discussions Demonstrations of agency public access systems - DOE, NAL, and NLM Engagement with senior Administration officials, e.g., Todd Park (Federal CTO) and Mike Stebbins (OSTP) Regular updates on activities of interagency working groups. Frequent meetings, discussions, papers to inform Members’ thinking Member participation in OSTP interagency working groups Interactions with other groups involved in the discussion: BRDI, ARL, SPARC, CNI, NIST, NITRD 5

FY13 Accomplishments Increasing Focus on Data CENDI members participate in OSTP Interagency WG on Digital Data –CENDI discussions and work papers inform the process Presentations from Research Data Alliance (Alan Blatecky and Fran Berman), Data.gov (Marina Martin ), NITRD (Faisal D’Souza) and NSF (Howard Wactlar ) Expand interactions with data community –Continue relations with BRDI, RDA, and CODATA –Invited data community members as guests to July meeting 6 “Big Data: What You Need to Know Now!” –CENDI/NFAIS/FLICC workshop was successfully held December Hosted by FLICC. –Attended by 112 people from 66 organizations.

FY13 Accomplishments CENDI Copyright WG Copyright glossary provided to OSTP Interagency WG on Publications. White paper on Mass Digitization –address gaps related to digitization of government information in Copyright Office. white paper Continued work on “Permissions – Government Produced and Non-Government Produced Works: Best Practices for U.S. Government Agencies” Copyright FAQ maintained as a “Best Seller” 7 CENDI

FY13 Accomplishments 8 Science.gov Celebrates 10 th Anniversary Q : Which is older, the National Library of Medicine, or its parent federal agency, the National Institutes of Health? A: The National Library of Medicine is 51 years older than the National Institutes of Health Innovative Use of Social Media Trivia Campaign tweets questions twice each week –Re-tweeted by PBS, AAAS, NPR, Popular Science, EurekAlert, American Institute of Physics and agencies Resources from 15 federal agencies Science.gov searches 59 databases and more than 2,250 websites Added several large multi-media databases 1.3 M unique queries/year Mobile usage growing Ciencia.gov usage increased 4x between June and July

FY13 Accomplishments Plans for FY14 (In Process) Implementation of public access – publications and data Issues around data – –Data-publication linking –Partnerships 2013 Workshop on “Open Science” (November 12, 2013) Follow up to Jam – an STI Data “Palooza” Science.gov 9

FY13 Accomplishments Implementation of Public Access Facilitate interagency cooperation and information exchange “Repository” best practices Facilitate interaction with other stakeholders Consider role of Science.gov - entry point to agency systems? Copyright WG contributions to discussions of access and re-use rights 10

FY13 Accomplishments Repositories – approaches to systems design and preservation Hosting/archiving datasets as a service Management of multi-media (A-V, etc.) Metadata for locators Data management plans – important elements Data sensitivity issues, e.g., human subjects Supporting tools and infrastructure, e.g., –Persistent identifiers –Author identifiers –Funding source acknowledgements Training, education, workforce Build capacity for data management & curation Data Management - Topics of Interest 11

FY13 Accomplishments Thank You!! For More Information: CENDI Co-Chair: Jerry Sheehan/NLM Science.gov Alliance Co-chairs: Tina Gheen/LOC Mary Moulton/DOT Executive Director: Bonnie Carroll/IIa CENDI Chair: Don Hagen/NTIS