Panel 5 - Developing Assessment Criteria

Panel Questions:

• Who defines the required assessment criteria?
• How is a consensus reached on the required assessment criteria?
• Can an international standard form the basis for assessment criteria?
• Are assessment criteria dependent upon the organizing community?

Mark Conrad, NARA LCDRG and ISO MOIMS-rac [PowerPoint]

NARA's ERA - 163 high-level requirements -some beyond current state-of-the-art

NCAST - Nara's technology research group

• expand scope of advanced research
• bring new technologies and methods into NARA
• identify needed expertise and assist NARA to secure it

Who defines required assessment criteria ?

• Acts - Federal, Presidential, FOI
• Communities - president, congress, courts, other fed agencies, public
• archival principles eg arrangement, provenance

Jane Greenberg, Dryad [PowerPoint] (UNC Metadata Research Centre)

• one-stop deposition/access for data objects supporting published research in evolutionary biology
• data package metadata includes (1) article metadata (2) datafile metadata eg genbank object, treebase object
• hierarchy of goals - preservation, discovery, sharing, synthesis
• HIVE - vocabulary services to researchers (Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering) - uses SKOS

John Graybeal, Ocean Observatories Initiative

Steve Richard, Arizona Geological Society [PowerPoint]