Bridging Data Lifecycles: Tracking Data Use Via Data Citations

Workshop
Apr. 5 to Apr. 6, 2012

8:30 am – 12:15 pm MDT

UCAR Center Green Campus, Boulder, CO
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The UCAR workshop on data citation and data use brought together over 75 people from data centers, research libraries, federal agencies, and research organizations. Presentations focused on data lifecycles, current options for data citation and data reuse, and highlighted pilot projects in implementing citation standards and practices. Mark Parsons of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Joan Starr of the California Digital Library, and Bill Cook, the Director of Publications with the American Geophysical Union (AGU), provided the opening keynote presentations. Dr. Tim Killeen, Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF) led off the second day with a keynote address that discussed multiple facets of the NSF's approach to promoting data management and citation.

Workshop speakers presented multiple perspectives on the development of data citation policies and procedures, as well as technologies for assigning DOIs and promoting data citations. Topics ranged across multiple stages of the "lifecycle of data": data conceptualization, collection, evaluation, use, management, and preservation. The widespread interest amongst data specialists and librarians in these issues led to many good discussions about effective strategies to support curation of, and access to, diverse kinds of data. Data citations were discussed as being critical to enabling scientific results to be traced back to their underlying data, and to enable scientists, data managers, and data centers to be credited for producing useful data.

Thanks to all of the presenters and attendees. The presentations for each speaker are posted below.

Final Workshop Report

 

Associated Files: 

PDF icon Mark Parsons (NSIDC - National Snow and Ice Data Center)

PDF icon Joan Starr (California Digital Library, EZID, DataCite)

PDF icon Bill Cook (American Geophysical Union)

PDF icon Matt Mayernik (NCAR)

PDF icon Mike Daniels (NCAR)

PDF icon Gary Strand (NCAR)

PDF icon Nicole Kaplan (CSU/LTER)

PDF icon Barbara Losoff (CU Library)

PDF icon Ruth Duerr (NSIDC)

PDF icon Lynn Yarmey (NSIDC)

PDF icon Ted Habermann (NOAA)

PDF icon Dr. Tim Killeen (Assistant Director NSF/GEO)

PDF icon Steve Worley (NCAR)

PDF icon Dan Kowal (NOAA)

PDF icon Leonard Sitongia (NCAR)

PDF icon Matt Mayernik (NCAR) - Closing