[csp] CSP February 2022 meeting

[Vandana Desai]

Hi, everyone.

I filled the survey out for Spitzer. The process of reading the survey with
a particular project in mind was illuminating! Below are some comments.

- There are a lot of institutions involved with Spitzer, so I put "NASA and
a lot of others". For most projects, even pretty small ones, there are
going to be multiple organizations "involved". I'm not really sure what we
gain from asking this; feels like a wasted question to me.

- Same with the question about first light. I don't know what first light
is and if I have to go to a different page to find out, I'm not likely to
come back to the survey. Yes, it says I don't have to fill it out, but I
did have to take the time to read it. Again, I don't think we learn much
from this question, so I would omit.

- Even though we explicitly ask about past missions on the first page,
every subsequent question is in future tense.

- For the questions about projects having an archive, and whether it will
be public: It was not the case for Spitzer, but I know of several missions
that have a private archive AND a public archive. They are different and
separate. The wording here doesn't allow for those projects to represent
themselves accurately.

- For the question about "How do you envisage scientific users accessing
your data? (select one or more options)", I checked all of the boxes. Did
that help us learn anything? I have the sense, especially from
conversations with Gregory, that this particular question could be expanded
quite a bit and grow to be the heart of the survey. If we get rid of the
"busy work" questions at the beginning, we could make room for stepping
through some of the more interesting and meaty issues that are hiding in
this question.

- Is interoperability with your data and the data of other projects a goal
of your project? In my experience, a project "goal" is always science
based, e.g. "measure the early light curves of 100 supernovae". Should this
instead be interpreted as a "requirement"? I would have to check a very
long list of requirements to find out if interoperability of data were on
the list. So I think this question is harder to answer than it seems. You'd
have to get just the right person involved in the survey to answer it. At
the very least, this needs an "I don't know" option. Or perhaps, "Do you
think it would be useful for researchers if these data were interoperable
with other data sets?" It really depends on what we are trying to learn
from this question, and what we will do with the answer.
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