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"A Community Dialogue To Influence Science Data Format Evolution and Usage"

This is an opportunity to significantly affect the evolution and usage of science data formats. It could be in your best interest to participate in this dialogue, either to defend what you like or to promote what you need, and thereby influence the consensus positions that will be generated. Whether you are a science researcher, archivist, project data manager, format developer, tool developer, or early applier of new standards and technologies, you may have valuable insights to contribute or significant positions to defend. Pick the Forum, or Forums, of relevance and provide your comments. Join with your colleagues in answering some key questions. For greater impact, fill out a template or write a paper and submit it. The Formats Evolution Process Committee (FEPC) will provide synthesized perspectives once sufficient material has been obtained. Working drafts of FEPC papers are also available.

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Instructions for Participation

Forums for Discussion

  • Format Developers
    Submit format descriptions, critique existing formats, and promote format evolution directions

  • Format Use by a Project Data System
    Submit project data system usage experience, critique project data system format usage, and promote project data system requirements for formats

  • Format Use by a Researcher
    Submit researcher usage experience, critique researcher usage, and promote researcher requirements for formats

  • Format Use by an Archive
    Submit archival usage experience, critique archival usage , and promote archival requirements on formats

  • Format Utilization by a Tool
    Submit tool developer experience, critique tool developer approaches, and promote the requirements of tool developers for formats

  • Potential Impacts of Developing Standards and Technology
    Submit perspectives on developing standards/technologies and their relations to formats, critique existing contributions, and propose format evolution directions


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Last Revised: 2000-12-06, John Garrett