Definition

The role of scientific stewards is to provide expert knowledge about the subject that the dataset is associated with, such as temperature or precipitation; to provide scientific oversight to ensure the accurate scientific representation of data and metadata values, namely, scientific integrity; to provide information or guidance on data quality and characterization; and to help define data quality and usability requirements to other stewards, data producers, and other key stakeholders.

Source

Peng, G., J.L. Privette, E.J. Kearns, N.A. Ritchey, and S. Ansari, 2015: A unified framework for measuring stewardship practices applied to digital environmental datasets. Data Science Journal, 13. http://doi.org/10.2481/dsj.14-049

NESDIS Data Management Lexicon and Related Terms 

Category

4. Data Stewardship words