Hi folks, As I mentioned in my last email, a team from the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project sent us a thoughtful response to our Vision and Charter documents which I thought would be worth forwarding onto the consortium. You can find it attached. Among their comments include concern about overstressing cross-disciplinary research as a motivation for the NDS. They also called attention to the so-called "Fort Lauderdale Agreement" from the Genomics community that describe acceptable practices regarding re-use of promptly released data. They also posed a number of interesting questions that I think could use some discussion before we attempt to address them in the documents currently under consideration. To quote, if I may, "The goal of being a community driven effort is readily apparent in the structure of the charter. Less clear are the decision-making processes. How will the pilot projects be structured into a portfolio? Are there mechanisms for incentives for uptake of the services and for reuse? How will domain specific policy considerations be accommodated? How does the NDS interact with existing domain specific services, atlases and/or databases? Is the focus on the physical science domains? Are there mechanisms to encourage public-private partnerships?" Feel free offer your own comments on these and related issues on this list. cheers, Ray
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