The Earth Data Relations project leverages relationship building and collaborative planning to convene a working group that is jointly developing a data governance framework to implement CARE (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, Ethics) Principles for Indigenous Data Governance in the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), other open data repositories and Earth system science institutions, and STEM education broadly.
The guiding goal of this project is to promote more ethical practice in science that recognizes historic inequities and seeks to transform data collection, storage and dissemination in large open data research repositories and institutions from an extractive enterprise to one that is relational, respectful, and honors communities' rights.
The project lead entity is the NSF National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), along with the University of Arizona and LiKEN.
Project team:
Katie Jones (NEON, PI), Stephanie Russo Carroll (University of Arizona, co-PI), Julie Maldonado (LiKEN, co-PI), Lydia Jennings (Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, Duke University), Andrew Martinez (Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona), Riley Taitingfong (Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona)
Working Group:
Rosie Alegado (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa), JenniferBalch (Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab/ESIIL) / EarthLab), Dominique David-Chavez ( Indigenous Land & Data Stewards Lab, Colorado State University), RuthDuerr (Earth Science Information Partners/ESIP), Dennis Dye (Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute), Noor Johnson (Exchange for Local Observation and Knowledge of the Arctic/ELOKA), Terry Ketchum(Chickasaw Nation, East Central University of Oklahoma), Darren Ranco (University of Maine), Katie Spellman (University of Alaska Fairbanks), BillThomas (NOAA Office for Coastal Management), Adrien Tofighi-Niaki (OpenTEK), Jeff Weber (Unidata/UCAR/NCAR)