Dear Colleagues,

Standards and codified recommended practices underpin many practical aspects of the scientific endeavor. Developing and maintaining standards and recommended practices requires the work, often unpaid, of many people. The session “Standards for the Benefit of Science and Society” at the AGU Fall Meeting will highlight the practical aspects, including sociological factors, involved in motivating, developing and adopting standards and recommended practices. We solicit presentations describing specific use cases and outcomes involving standardization efforts. We are interested in both the successes and failures - we learn from both. This link will take you directly to the form for submitting an abstract to this session.

Session Conveners:

SiriJodha S. Khalsa, NSIDC/CIRES/Univ. Colorado, Boulder
Jay Pearlman, FourBridges
Ingo Simonis, OGC
Charlie Zender, UC Irvine
IN043 - Standards for the Benefit of Science and Society
Session Abstract:
Standards can help to ensure the F.A.I.R.ness of data, reduce the barriers to adoption of new technologies within local and regional cultures, and help close the digital divide between less economically developed countries and advanced societies. But the development de jure standards takes time and effort, and adoption of the end product is not guaranteed. The codification and promotion of community or recommended practices (aka “best practices”) is a less formal avenue for achieving many of these same goals. This session consists of presentations highlighting the practical aspects, including sociological factors, involved in development and adoption of standards and best practices. Presentations describing specific use cases and outcomes involving standardization efforts are also being solicited.
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Siri-Jodha Singh KHALSA, Ph.D., SMIEEE
National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449 Phone: 1-303-492-1445 GV: 1-303-736-9976
http://cires.colorado.edu/~khalsa
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9217-5550

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