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Sarah Ramdeen, Angela Murillo

The purpose of this study is to reflect on the current state of skills, access, and trust
relating to data use and reuse within the ESIP member community. This study will
specifically focus on the data lifecycle. The data lifecycle includes curation, access to
data by the user community and the skills needed to perform these services or tasks.
It is important to understand what skills are needed in searching for scientific data sets.<br>

This includes research, technological and cognitive skills. Collections must be
discoverable and accessible. In order to make use of a collection, users must be able to
successfully search and find scientific data sets within these repositories and the resulting
data must be in a format which is useable for their purposes. Finally, when accessing
scientific data repositories, individuals must evaluate the trustworthiness of the
collections and determine the quality of data it houses before deciding to use repository
resources.<br>

In order to learn more about these areas we will send a questionnaire to the ESIP
community asking participants to recall their personal experiences with data use
specifically the skills and training they felt they needed to be successful searchers, how
they accessed collections, what barriers they encountered along the way, and finally, how
they determined trustworthiness and quality of the data they discovered and ultimately
used.