Data Management Practices for Early Career Scientists

1. Data Management Practices for Early Career Scientists Robert Cook ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center Environmental Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN cookrb@ornl.gov Terrestrial Ecology Science Team Meeting La Jolla, CA February 2, 2013

2. Workshop Team • Robert Cook, Oak Ridge National Laboratory • Tammy Beaty, Oak Ridge National Laboratory • William Michener, University of New Mexico • Suresh Vannan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory • Yaxing Wei, Oak Ridge National Laboratory • Viv Hutchison, USGS

3. Workshop Goal Provide data management practices that investigators should perform during the course of data collection to improve the usability of their data sets

4. Benefits of Good Data Management Practices Short-term • Spend less time doing data management and more time doing research • Easier to prepare and use data for yourself • Collaborators can readily understand and use data files Long-term (data archival) • Scientists outside your project can find, understand, and use your data • You get credit for archived data products and their use in other papers • Funding agencies protect their investment

5. TE Data Used for . . . • Understanding terrestrial ecology and biogeochemical processes • Developing and validating processed-based biogeochemical models • Integrating 'process understanding' with remote sensing observations • Validating remote sensing products and ecosystem models • Addressing hypotheses that can only be addressed by integrating data sets from multiple studies and disciplines

6. US Strategy on Earth Observations Announced (April 19, 2013) • Wide-ranging Strategic Plan, evaluating current and future EO • Data management guidelines that advance data management frameworks and improve information delivery systems for Earth observation data

8. Data Management Practices for Early Career Scientists Workshop Agenda 1:00 - 1:10  Workshop Introduction (Bob Cook, ORNL) 1:10 - 1:20  An Introduction to Metadata (Tammy Beaty, ORNL) 1:20 - 1:40  Elements of a Data Management Plan (Bill Michener, UNM) 1:40 - 2:10  Fundamental Practices for Preparing Data Sets (Bob Cook, ORNL) 2:10 - 2:30 Preparing Metadata Records (Suresh Vannan, ORNL) 2:30 - 3:00  Break (Snack shop closes at 3 pm) 3:00 - 3:30  Preparing Spatial Data to Archive (Yaxing Wei, ORNL) 3:30 - 4:15  Organizing data sets: Participants are encouraged to bring their own data sets, which we will assist in organizing (Workshop Team) 4:15 - 4: 30 Workshop Closing (Bob Cook, ORNL)

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