How to make things happen?

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How to make things happen?

• What do we need to do?
• Where to start?
• Key issue
• Locating data
• Obtaining data

2
How to make things happen?

• What do we need to do?
• Where to start?
• Key issue
• Locating data
• Obtaining data

3
What do we need to do?

• Collect all the data which still exist somewhere
• Clean them up
• Make them publicly available

4
What do we need to do?

• Collect all the data which still exist somewhere
• Clean them up
• Make them publicly available

5
How to make things happen?

• What do we need to do?
• Where to start?
• Key issue
• Locating data
• Obtaining data

6
Where to start?

• Let people (policy makers, administrators,)
  understand that historical data are valuable and
  important
• Identify possible data sources
• Approach data holders

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How to make things happen?

• What do we need to do?
• Where to start?
• Key issue
• Locating data
• Obtaining data

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Key issue

• Supports from data holders are indispensable, for
  locating and obtaining data
• Have an inter-agency meeting to make directors
  and administrators understand the importance of
  data archaeology and rescue.
• Specific examples of fruits (practical benefits)
  would help.

9
How to make things happen?

• What do we need to do?
• Where to start?
• Key issue
• Locating data
• Obtaining data

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Locating data

• Ask individual institutes to search data in their
  premises.
• Manuals would help locate data.
• Data Centers themselves need to work hard to
  locate possible data holders, using papers,
  books, NOPs, ROSCOPs, and CSRs
• Dialogue with scientists is a great help

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How to make things happen?

• What do we need to do?
• Where to start?
• Key issue
• Locating data
• Obtaining data

12
Obtaining data

• Willingness of data holder to donate their data
  is the MUST
• Make possible data holders understand the
  importance and value of historical data
• Specific examples of fruits(practical benefits)
  would help.
• Help obtain organizational authorization to
  release data
• Pose no extra duties or works to him or her
• Data policy must be friendly to them

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Important!

• Make sure that GODAR is not for the data center,
  but for data holder themselves.
• GODAR needs active approach to data holders,
  rather than passive manner of daily IODE business.

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My questions

• What makes people excited and attracted?
• gtgt make a common brochure, not to tell our
  business but to make people understand the value
  of the project, from fruits they get
• Who should be involved in the national GODAR
  committee ?