Data Management Short Course for Scientists

The ESIP Federation, in cooperation with NOAA and the Data Conservancy, seeks to share the community's knowledge with scientists who increasingly need to be better data managers, as well as to support workforce development for new data management professionals. Over the next several years, the ESIP Federation expects to evolve training courses which seeks to improve the understanding of scientific data management among scientists, emerging scientists, and data professionals of all sorts.

All courses are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license that allows you to share and adapt the work as long as you cite the work according to the citation provided. Please send feedback upon the courses to [email protected].

Sections:

The Case for Data Stewardship
Data Management Plans
Local Data Management
Responsible Data Use
Alphabetical Module Title List

Titles for: The Case for Data Stewardship Section

• Agency Requirements
• NASA Data Management Plans
• NSF Data Management Plans
• NOAA Administrative Order 212-15: Management of Environmental and Geospatial Data and Information
• Enhancing Your Reputation
• Preserving the Scientific Record
• Establishing Relationships with Archives
• Preserving a Record of Environmental Change
• Case Study 1 – National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Glacier Photos
• Case Study 2 – Arctic Temperature Variability Data

Titles for: Data Management Plans Section

• Why Create a Data Management Plan?
• Elements of a Data Management Plan
• Identifying the materials to be created
• Organization and Standards

Titles for: Local Data Management Section

• Managing Your Data
• Assign Descriptive File Names
• Backing Up Your Data
• Data Formats
• Choosing and Adopting Community Accepted Standards
• Using Self-describing Data Formats
• Creating Documentation and Metadata
• Introduction to Metadata and Metadata Standards
• Creating a Citation for Your Data
• Metadata for Discovery
• Working with Your Archive: Broadening Your User Community
• Advertising your data
• Agency requirements for submitting metadata
• Using data portals and metadata registries
• Using Data Portals and Metadata Registries: Submitting Metadata to the GCMD
• Providing Access to Your Data
• Determining your audience
• Access Mechanisms
• Tracking Data Usage
• Handling sensitive data
• Rights

Titles for: Responsible Data Use Section

• Citation and Credit
• Copyright and Data
• Data Restrictions

Alphabetical Module Title List