Difference between revisions of "Data Management Course Outline"
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* Accurate and verifiable science | * Accurate and verifiable science | ||
* Preserving the Scientific Record | * Preserving the Scientific Record | ||
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**Preserving a Record of Environmental Change - Tom Karl | **Preserving a Record of Environmental Change - Tom Karl | ||
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**Describing your data | **Describing your data | ||
**Standards used | **Standards used | ||
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**Backups, archives, and preservation strategy | **Backups, archives, and preservation strategy | ||
===Local Data Management === | ===Local Data Management === | ||
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| + | *Creating metadata | ||
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| + | *File naming conventions | ||
| + | *Data Formats | ||
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===Preservation strategies=== | ===Preservation strategies=== | ||
Revision as of 11:01, May 26, 2011
For Scientists
The case for data stewardship
- Agency requirements - NSF data management plan
- Return on Investment
- Return on your investment - Peter Fox
- Expanding the audience for your data
- Return on public investments
- Accurate and verifiable science
- Preserving the Scientific Record
- Establishing Relationships with archives
- Preserving a Record of Environmental Change - Tom Karl
- Other case studies?
- What Not to do when Archiving Data! - David Anderson (2:30)
Data Management plans
- Why do a data management plan
- Elements of a plan - Ruth Duerr (needs redo and chopped into parts?
- Identify materials to be created
- Identify your audience(s)
- Data organization
- Roles and responsibilities
- Describing your data
- Standards used
- Data access, sharing, and re-use policies
- Backups, archives, and preservation strategy
Local Data Management
- Tracking and describing changes to the data
- Creating metadata
- Backing up your data
- File naming conventions
- Data Formats
- Building understandable spreadsheets
Preservation strategies
- What archives are out there?
- What to do if there is no archive out there
- What data goes into a Long-term archive? - Ron Weaver (5:44)
- ??? - Ken Casey
- Metadata - Bob Cook (4:33)
For Data Managers
- Data Management plan support
- Collection or acquisition policies
- Intro to OAIS reference model
- Initial Assessment and appraisal
- Identify information to be preserved
- main features and properties
- dependencies on information here or elsewhere
- Identify objects to be received
- Establish complementary information needs (e.g., format, data descriptions, provenance, reference information, context, fixity information)
- What complementary information is needed for data useful for climate studies (USGCRP list)
- Assessing potential designated communities
- Assessing probable curation duration
- Assessing data transfer options
- Defining access paths
- Assessing costs and feasibility
- Metadata, metadata standards, and levels of metadata
- Identify information to be preserved
- Submission agreements
- Preparing for ingest
- Ingesting data
- Validation checks
- Identifiers
- Citations
- Levels of service
- Periodic re-assessment
- Curation activities
- Media migration
- Format migration
