Data Conservancy will be well represented at the 2013 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco. If you are at AGU, we hope you will attend the presentations, workshops and poster sessions in which we will be participating. …
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Hearing on Scientific Integrity and Transparency
On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, the House Subcommittee on Research held a congressional hearing on “Scientific Integrity and Transparency.” The purpose of the hearing was to gather information on open access to federally funded scientific research data and to gather …
DC Representation at IDCC13
The 2013 International Data Curation Conference (IDCC) is being held in Amsterdam this week. The annual gathering brings together a diverse group of data professionals to discuss the present and future of digital curation. Data Conservancy’s Tim DiLauro is …
DC Representation at AGU 2012
by Matt Mayernik, UCAR/NCAR The Data Conservancy will be well represented in San Francisco next week, Dec. 3-7, for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. The AGU Fall Meeting brings together around 20,000 scientists, professionals, and educators who …
Hunting for Data Curation Solutions
Jane Beitler, NSIDC Technology has made storing and accessing data and information easy, we think. Capture it, like a photograph or a series of weather measurements, then save it to digital storage housed in a safe place. Keep it …
Data Conservancy Releases Alpha Software
By Shonna Clark, JHU Over three years ago, the Data Conservancy began its mission to create technological and human infrastructure able to support the preservation, re-use and discovery of research data. Today, DC is one step closer to that …
JHU Data Archive Archival Process
By Betsy Gunia, JHU Data Management Consultant The Johns Hopkins University Data Management Services (JHU DMS), offered by the Sheridan Libraries, helps researchers develop data management plans and both preserve and share research data. We provide research data archiving …
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. …