2025 July ESIP Meeting

Name: Data replication and repository succession: sustaining and preserving data for the long-term
Start: 2025-07-24T11:00:00-0700
End: 2025-07-24T12:30:00-0700

We are a home for Earth science data and computing professionals. Our sessions bring together the community for hands-on, interdisciplinary deep dives as we explore "Innovation to Impact" this year. Learn more about ESIP: esipfed.org

Thursday July 24, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT

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Session Description
Individual specialized and general data repositories provide the backbone for Earth science data discovery, access, and preservation, and we’re even stronger working together as a network of repositories. While individual repositories are essential for delivering critical services, they remain vulnerable to risks that endanger long-term delivery of these services and the collections upon which they are based to the broader user community These risks include natural and human-made disasters, technology failures, geopolitical dynamics, and changes in funding provided to enable those services. Many of these risks can be mitigated through repository design and management (e.g. effective backups, systematic technology development and testing, geographic distribution of critical storage and service infrastructure), but some risks are to the repositories themselves as functioning organizations, for example, due to funding failures and changes in priorities by funding agencies. The cessation of operations of individual repositories places their data collections at risk in the absence of time or resources to execute the steps necessary to transfer data collections and associated metadata to successor organizations to ensure continued preservation, discovery, and access. While data might be moved from one repository to another, the services repositories operate for analytics, visualization, and management are often much more difficult and expensive to re-home. This session will bring together a panel of repository representatives to discuss data replication and succession planning strategies as an introduction to a facilitated discussion amongst the session attendees around how the ESIP community can participate in and contribute to the long-term preservation of Earth science data and related services beyond the boundaries of the individual repositories that currently provide them.
This is a panel and participant discussion companion session to “Research Data Management Systems (RDMS): A hands-on session on how to replicate data across similar systems”. If accepted we request that this session be scheduled before the related hands-on session.

Value to Session Participants
The participants will contribute to and benefit from the development of new and stronger relationships between data repositories, increased knowledge of data collection sustainability strategies, and ultimately, a more resilient Earth data preservation and access ecosystem.

Recommended Ways to Prepare for this Session
Participants could best prepare for the session by giving some thought to how we can extend our long-standing focus on repository sustainability to an expanded concept of long-term continuity of access to data and metadata collections, and services as appropriate.

Speakers

Karl Benedict

Emeritus Professor, University of New Mexico

Since 1986 I have had parallel careers in Information Technology, Data Management and Analysis, and Archaeology. Since 1993 when I arrived at UNM I have worked as a Graduate Student in Anthropology, Research Scientist, Research Faculty, Applied Research Center Director, and currently... Read More →

Carolina Berys-Gonzalez

Data Manager, CCHDO/SIO/UCSD

Matt Biddle

Thursday July 24, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT
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2025 July ESIP Meeting

Karl Benedict

Carolina Berys-Gonzalez

Matt Biddle

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