BYOPanel – The On‐the‐Spot Assembled Panel on Responses to the OSTP Memo Responses

EDITOR'S SUMMARY A hastily arranged session was convened at the 2015 RDAP Summit in response to the 2013 memo from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on research data policy and management. On the first day of the conference, planners solicited input on ways attendees are educating their communities on OSTP data policy requirements, resources developed and emerging issues and challenges in data management. Attendees voted to learn more about the University of Iowa's creation of a Research Data Interest Group, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's taxonomy of research data and archiving requirements and James Madison University's efforts to inform stakeholders on the OSTP mandate. At a short session the next morning, speakers from these institutions expanded on their first brief responses, sparking further questions and plans to carry on the conversation through social media and future meetings.