NICS CoP Meeting - April 12, 2005 (2PND)
Learning Phase Findings Discussion (2PNE)
- Q. Can you please clarify NICS role in regards to "the marketplace" and the services we discussed providing? Is there a discrepancy? (2PNI)
- By creating NICS, ultimately the structure, the marketplace we build will take care of meeting the demand and pro-active supply of services, so we don't have be the only ones developing and suppling services. (2PO4)
- Follow up Q - There's a difference between having that tool available for someone, and it's use. I want to be sure that the raw data will be available, and that the person would be aware of any manipulations on the data. (2PNK)
- A: The "system" as it were, is that we aren't developing a one-stop shop, but a means for accesssing data, and tools available (2PNL)
- What I've learend a lot about is the need for top-down data and bottow-up community feedback about the data. It is important that we remember that we remember we need thsi dynamic. Including that in our processes is important (2PNN)
- Not only an up-and-down process, but a cross-ways one. The sharing across is what will make this work. We are "bottom-feeders" in that we use so much data from the fed, expecting that the data comes down from a "deity". (2PNO)
- Every marketplace asks people to register, like a $35 fee to upload your data. I just wanted to ask if you've considered any such options or such an approach? (2PNQ)
- Yes. It's not on the slides, but there has been some discussion about these tools from other models to enable, and automatically deal with many of the details that we need to consider as we build this system. (2PNR)
- There's no consensus on what is quality data, what a definition is of that, as I would encourge loose participation, and authentication procedures, and a thumbnail measurement of what quality data is -- what response rates are, what the data is used for, how it's not used (2PNS)
- Other processes to borrow from...ISO Authentication process. Many people have manufactured services processes, have we looked at that, looked at how others have set data standards, do we know of other models in this regard? (2PNV)
- We took a more global view to start, setting standards is a long-term project. Immediately, I would defer to Brand Neimann's work on Semantic Interoperability and the building of the Semantic Web. (2PNW)
- Also, we shouldn't necessarily consider data standards as a hard set of rules. Documentation and feedback, is another solution to the need for data standards. Right now, data isn't perfect, but I can still use it. It's good enough, and partly becuase there is documentation so I know how to use that imperfect data appropriately. (2PNX)
