NISO April Virtual Conference: Dealing with the Data Deluge: Successful Techniques for Scientific Data Management

Virtual conferences are 5-6 hour conferences held online in webinar-like formats, with occasional breaks in the schedule for participants. The longer length allows the depth of coverage of a conference coupled with the convenience of a webinar.

Date: April 23, 2014

Time: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Eastern

Event webpage: www.niso.org/news/events/2014/virtual/data_deluge/

ABOUT THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

With the expansion of digital data collection and the increased expectations of data sharing, researchers are turning to their libraries or institutional repositories as a place to store and preserve that data. Many institutions have created such data management services and see the data curation role as a growing and important element of their service portfolio. While some of the experience in managing other types of digital resources is transferrable, the management of large-scale scientific data has many special requirements and challenges. From metadata collection and cataloging data sources, to identification, discovery, and preservation, best practices and standards are still in their infancy.

NISO's April 23 Virtual Conference, Dealing with the Data Deluge: Successful Techniques for Scientific Data Management—to be held from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Eastern—will explore in greater depth than traditional webinars some of the practical lessons from those who have implemented data management and developed best practices, as well as provide some insight into the evolving issues the community faces.

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

• Keynote Speaker – Jan Brase, Ph.D., German National Library of Science and Technology; Managing Agent of DateCite, Chair of the International DOI Foundation (IDF), Vice-President of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), and Co-Chair of the CODATA Data Citation task group
• Guidelines and Resources for Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Data Access Plans – Jared Lyle, Director of Data Curation Services, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan
• Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles: Implementation of the Principles in the Harvard Dataverse Repository – Merce Corsas, Ph.D., Director of Data Science, Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Harvard University
• Purdue University Research Repository (PURR): A Commitment to Supporting Researchers – Michael Witt, Head, Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2); Associate Professor of Library Science, Purdue University Research Repository (PURR)
• Is This Data Fit for My Use? The Challenges and Opportunities Data Provenance Presents – Adriane Chapman, MITRE
• A Durable Space: Technologies for Accessing Our Collective Digital Heritage – David Wilcox, Product Manager, DuraSpace
• The SHared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Project: A Joint Initiative of ARL, AAU, and APLU – Judy Ruttenberg, Program Director for Transforming Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 4:00 pm Eastern on April 22, 2014  (the day before the virtual conference). Discounts are available for NISO members and students. All virtual conference registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year.

Can't make it on the day of the virtual conference? All registrants receive access to the recorded version for one year. Take advantage of the Virtual Conference subscription package (www.niso.org/news/events/2014/virtual/#subscription) for all six of the 2014 Virtual Conferences and save 33%. (NISO members can save 50% through April 22.)

For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: www.niso.org/news/events/2014/virtual/data_deluge/

Cynthia Hodgson

Technical Editor / Consultant

National Information Standards Organization

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