NOAA and Data Management Practices
by Ruth Duerr, NSIDC This is an exciting time for scientific data management, a field that up to just a few years ago desperately needed more attention, but which now shows signs of coming into its own as people …
Data Conservancy Participation in the Digital Curation Education in Research Centers (DCERC) Kickoff Workshop
By Matt Mayernik, UCAR/NCAR The kickoff workshop for the Digital Curation Education in Research Centers (DCERC) program took place June 5-7, 2012, in Boulder, CO. DCERC, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), supports graduate …
Data Conservancy Education Activities at the University of Illinois
By Carole Palmer and Virgil Varvel, University of Illinois The Data Conservancy (DC) Broader Impacts team at the University of Illinois is leading activities to advance education of data professionals to address data curation workforce needs in the sciences. …
Johns Hopkins University Seeks Candidates for Data Management Services Manager Position
UPDATE: This position is no longer available. The Johns Hopkins University Data Management Services (JHU DMS) group is hiring a Manager to lead the team with a focus on operational and supervisory aspects. The JHU DMS provides both …
Big Biological Data Demands Value
By David Shorthouse, Marine Biological Laboratory Biology is an exceptionally diverse science whose pursuit spans timeframes of nanoseconds to millennia, operates on scales from nanometers to thousands of kilometers, describes all life from minute, aeolian fauna that plunge down …
UCAR Data Citation Workshop
By Matthew Mayernik The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) put on a data citation workshop in Boulder, CO, April 5-6, 2012. The workshop, titled “Bridging Data Lifecycles: Tracking Data Use via Data Citations,” brought together over 75 people …
DC Members Participate in RDAP 2012
By Matt Mayernik, UCAR/NCAR The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) held its third annual Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit March 22-23, 2012, in New Orleans, LA. The summit brought together information professionals from academia, …
Data Management and the ESIP Federation
By Ruth Duerr, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) As a member of the Data Conservancy team, my role includes keeping up with developments in data management, and often these developments are not technical so much as organizational. …
Solving the Data Management Mandate
by Jane Beitler, NSIDC Ian H., a postdoc in biological sciences at JHU, seems a little out of his element as he looks over the criteria for the data management plan that he must submit with his research proposal. …
Data Conservancy and SEAD Announce Partnership
Data Conservancy and SEAD, an NSF DataNet-funded cyberinfrastructure development project led by the University of Michigan, have announced a collaboration that will enable the SEAD project to use Data Conservancy code modules for use in their own software. This partnership …