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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 …

Workshop: Primer on Data Management

Sunday, 22 January 2012, 8:30–12:00 p.m.; Room 338/339   In this half-day workshop on Sunday January 22, 2012, everything the modern data-producing scientist needs to know about data management will be introduced. We will discuss the rationale for data management …