The Data Management community and related groups like IRTM are implementing organizational change around our data practices. This is hard enough on its own. But rather than putting on a unified front to improve the organization, we are often divided and competing with each other for budgets, kingdom building, or just the right to say “first”. This group will use materials from the 2023 workshop to refine a vision for collaborative work, review and prioritize barriers, and start a rough implementation plan for reaching the vision.
Overall VisionThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service effectively and efficiently creates and maintains centralized data assets that are shared and communicated widely for the benefit of the agency, agency’s partners, and the public while fostering recognition and innovation at all levels for solutions to current and future data problems that are shared and utilized by the entire agency regardless of program or region. We have broken the visions from the 2023 data workshop visions down into 3 categories.
Three goals to work towards: •
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rapidly innovates on the data and data tool front, balancing national strategically planned efforts and data standards against rapid prototyping at various levels of the organization: Balancing planned advances and rapid innovation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s data are the foundation of conservation success. As Service employees, we will produce data that are rigorous, discoverable, documented, accessible, and secure.
- Clear communication about projects helps minimize duplication of efforts and fosters collaboration across organizational silos: Improving communication about new projects and ongoing work.
- The Service values and recognizes staff contributions, particularly when locally developed concepts are adopted and adapted for broader use: Incentives and valuing staff contributions.
