Virtual Conference on Scientific Data Management

Mark your calendars for February 18th to participate in a virtual conference - "Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth"  The cost of participation in this professional development opportunity is being covered by UK Libraries.

This NISO virtual conference will explore many current and up-and-coming aspects of research data management, including:

·         Data management practice meets policy

·         Uses for the data management plan

·         Building data management capacity and functionality

·         Citing and curating datasets

·         Connecting datasets with other products of scholarship

·         Changing researchers’ practices

·         Teaching data management techniques

A complete schedule of the sessions may be found at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2015/virtual_conferences/sci_data_management/

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

• Keynote Address – Laura J. Biven, Ph.D., Senior Science and Technology Advisor, Office of the Deputy Director for Science Programs, Office of Science, US Department of Energy
• Research Data Curation - Jennifer Doty, Research Data Librarian, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
• Data Management Best Practices – Regina F. Raboin, Science Research and Instruction Librarian/ Data Management Services Group Coordinator, Tisch Library, Tufts University
• DART Project: Data Management Plans as a Research Tool – Amanda L. Whitmire, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Data Management Specialist, Oregon State University Libraries & Press
• Building Data Management Capacity – Heidi Imker, Ph.D., Director of the Research Data Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• FORCE11 – Dr. Melissa Haendel, Assistant Professor, Ontology Development Group, OHSU Library, Department of Medical Informatics and Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University
• The RMap Project – Sheila M. Morrissey, Senior Research Developer, Ithaka 
•  The Open Science Framework – Andrew Sallans, Partnerships, Collaborations, and Funding, Center for Open Science
• Roundtable Discussion

The various sessions run from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. We have scheduled the Active Learning Classroom  - WTYL 2-34A for the event.