2019 ESIP Summer Meeting

Many organizations and consortia around the globe are discussing how to identify the kinds of data skills that people who are interested in working as professional data stewards (or data curators or information specialists, for example) need to acquire during their academic careers (including undergraduate, graduate, PhDs, PostDocs and possibly, early career professionals.  Members of the ESIP community are involved in  discussions of the data skills needed by the "generic" data steward, but want to inform those discussions with the needs of the data steward working with Earth Science data.  The skills identified will be used by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) to create a one page "Career Compass" handout that has been quite popular at any number of professional conferences and association meetings.  An example of a Career Compass for Data Science can be seen at:  https://www.americangeosciences.org/sites/default/files/CareerCompass_DataSciences.pdf.  Comments, suggestions & feedback from those engaged in data steward activities and have similar responsibilities are invited to offer them to the organizers.  If there is enough interest in group discussion, an unconference session may also be proposed.