README.md

SciCat Project Governance

Introduction

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.

Why?

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.

Purpose

The governance documents aim to formalize the SciCat project as an international, multi-organization, community-driven project.

Adoption

Project contributors, contributing organizations and commercial partners agree to adhere to the definition, procedure and responsibilities described in the content of these documents

Governance Entities Mission

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.

Governance Keywords

• Community
• Strategy
• Outreach
• Quality
• Sustainability

Governance Components

Governance Entities

• Contributors Community
• Technical Leaders
• Project Leaders
• Steering Committee
• Advisory Groups
• Contributing Organizations
• Voting Body

Project Components

• SciCat Project
• SciCat Core
• Supported Projects
• Project Channels

Procedures

• Ratification
• Amendment
• Voting
• Nomination
• Member Early Dismissal
• Supported Project Request
• Project Archival
• Project Decision
• Contributing

Roles

• Steering Committee
• Project Leaders
• Technical Leaders
• Advisory Boards

Other Relevant Documents

• Code of conduct
• Branding
• License
• Antitrust

Status

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.

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