The purpose of this repository is to formalize the governance process that the SciCat project follows and has been using informally for the past few years. These documents clarify the responsibilities, decision processes, and how the various elements of our community interact. The governance model was inspired by the Bluesky governance and the GitHub Minimum Viable Governance.
Data cataloging, curation and sharing are becoming a critical step in many organizations' data lifecycle. The SciCat project and its community aims to communicate clearly how the project is managed, how the priorities are set and effort is allocated. We would like to formalize and document the processes contributors and organizations can follow to become active members of the community and easily contribute to the project. This effort is also important to communicate the commitment of the community to the Project and render SciCat a viable and well thought option in the landscape of data catalogues.
The governance documents aim to formalize the SciCat project as an international, multi-organization, community-driven project.
Project contributors, contributing organizations and commercial partners agree to adhere to the definition, procedure and responsibilities described in the content of these documents
The Governance Entities of the Project are set in place to promote a positive development culture through caring for the entire community, strategic management, outreach, commitment to quality, effort on sustainability.
- Community
- Strategy
- Outreach
- Quality
- Sustainability
- Contributors Community
- Technical Leaders
- Project Leaders
- Steering Committee
- Advisory Groups
- Contributing Organizations
- Voting Body
- Ratification
- Amendment
- Voting
- Nomination
- Member Early Dismissal
- Supported Project Request
- Project Archival
- Project Decision
- Contributing
Governance documents are tracked at https://github.com/SciCatProject/governance.
The latest release is considered to be in effect, while the main branch represents the latest draft under consideration.
Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License.