What is the best way to get the repository populated?

Sticks: making contributions mandatory for NTHMP funded materials; making clear that one expectation of NTHMP partners is sharing the benefit of the materials they develop.

Carrots: repository staff could aid depositors by reviewing and adding metadata, or by doing ingest. NTHMP could send commendations back to depositors' management after deposits.

Who is responsible for ensuring or certifying that copyright issues have been cleared?

Could be a staff member who works with the depositor; or could be the depositor. Depositors might be asked if they have the right to contribute the material and might be required to certify that the materials can be used as repository data are normally used.

Who will serve as content and metadata approver or approvers?

Could be a staff member who is tasked with reviewing content and metadata before the SIP becomes an AIP. Could be one of a group of knowledgeable people who volunteer or are recruited to review the object and/or metadata for appropriateness and completeness.

Who is eligible to deposit materials in the repository?

•Only members of NTHMP partner organizations? •Anyone who is designated by a partner organization? •Anyone who applies and is approved by repository staff?

Is metadata to be stored only for data objects that are actually in the repository?

Is anyone likely to want to do metadata only?•It might allow us to link to web pages, which we do not plan to support in the repository.•If we allow metadata only, then broken links are likely to be much more frequent.•Allowing MD only might tend to deemphasize quality checking on the objects themselves

Is there a need to more precisely specify what content is eligible for deposit?

Current guidance, "...all products funded by the NTHMP including but not limited to inundation maps and models, non-proprietary digital elevation models, evacuation maps, K-12 curriculum and lesson plans, mitigation and preparedness materials, and peer reviewed documents." •Should we allow non-NTHMP funded items? •Would we allow or encourage private photos of tsunamis, for example?

Will we ever restrict access to any materials in the repository?

Possible examples: incident reviews, minutes of planning meetings, in-process research, data gathered from human subjects. We could allow this kind of material, make the MD fully searchable but restrict access to the data object itself.

Or the policy could be not to accept such material in the first place.