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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 "Bridging Divides: Data, Technology, Community" this year. Learn more about this theme on the ESIP Meetings page.

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ESIP's Contribution to Global Data Resilience
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
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Sign-in & Notes
Events in the US starting in January 2025 were a wake-up call: many who had their data and/or whose research depended on data in repositories started to ask:
  1. How safe are my research-dependent datasets?
  2. How secure are the repository infrastructures in which they are stored? 
Repositories in Europe, Australia, and elsewhere were inundated with requests to host threatened datasets: it was chaotic; not everything could be moved - confusion reigned - which datasets were critical? Which datasets were key components of global data supply chains? 

Many groups sprang into action - in particular, the US-based ESIP Sustainable Data Management Cluster, which, led by Joseph Gum, developed and published the Repository Crisis Scorecard within 2 months. In October 2025, as a follow-up, the Building Resilient Repositories Project, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and supported by Tessera Strategies and by the ESIP Sustainable Data Management Cluster, was announced.
Other projects followed, including the:
  1. AGU’s Impactful Datasets Project
  2. The AGU-led Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences Global Data Convening project, funded by the Hewlett Foundation
  3. As a follow-up from a Town Hall at EGU on “Data in Turbulent Times - How Resilient is Your Repository?” and the recent paper by Alex de Sherbinin on ‘Things Fall Apart: Lessons from a Defunded Data Repository’, there is a proposal to develop a volume of essays on papers that record “Disasters, Near Misses and Successful Resuscitations of Repositories in Crisis”.
Members of the ESIP Sustainable Data Management Cluster are now working on 2 papers summarising the eventful activities of 2025:
  1. Can a repository survive a crisis? The Development of the Repository Crisis Scorecard; and
  2. Defining Research Data Management Resiliency
In addition, decisions need to be made regarding the Results of the Sloan-funded Building Resilient Repositories Project.
This session is designed to inform participants of all these activities and to invite participation in those that are still open.
The final part of the session will focus on the future of the Data Sustainability Cluster, which is currently seeking new chairs.  Two options have been proposed:
  1. Start new projects on Data Resilience; and
  2. Revisit previous suggestions that this Cluster continue, or start a new cluster that focuses on issues related to Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance, following on from the publication by this Cluster on “Earth Science Data Repositories: Implementing the CARE Principles.”

Audience
Anyone is welcome to participate
Speakers
avatar for Lesley Wyborn

Lesley Wyborn

Data Strategist, Australian Research Data Commons
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Jens Klump

Group Leader Exploration, CSIRO
“The really exciting part is not about putting labels on things, but about what you can do when you put machine learning to work on the labelled data.” (https://www.auscope.org.au/posts/2020/12/18/introducing-jens).
President of the International Geo Sample Number Implementati... Read More →
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Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm CDT
Location TBA
  Data Stewardship, Governance, & Resilience
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