[Network-Centric Resources] Hello from EDGI!

[Dawn Walker]

Hi,

My name is Dawn Walker, I'm based in Toronto and here as a part of EDGI,
or Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, a network of academics
and non-profits addressing potential threats to US federal environmental
and energy policy, and to the scientific research infrastructure built
to investigate, inform, and enforce.

Over the past four months we've been building online tools, events, and
research networks to proactively archive public environmental data and
ensure its continued public availability. Much of this exists on our
website or in our github repository:
- https://envirodatagov.org/
- https://github.com/edgi-govdata-archiving/overview

With the first big milestone around the archiving behind us (Internet
Archive ended its End of Term harvest in March), we are looking at
refocusing our efforts to be inline with our anticipated future
capacity. As part of this we want to understand how to better frame our
resources to support network-based organizing as we've seen many
parallel efforts in the past few months.

Current challenges/barriers:
- How do we minimize our chances of recreating the wheel (and reduce the
chances of other people doing that)
- How to rewrite/modify existing material to be more 'network friendly'
- What are the issues we should consider about building a sustainable
resource? (What is a sustainable resource, even? Is some form of expiry
or graceful degradation preferrable than leaving something up forever?
- What do governance structures look like for shared resources where
development happens across two or more orgs?

Happy to learn more!

Best,
Dawn