NETS Stakeholder Workshop:Researcher Panel

Shirley Han28 June 20013

NCEASNational Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

• Nationally NSF funded center

• Working Groups• Required to make

derived datasets publically available

• Metadata also required

• Training from the ecoinformatics group

Where does the data come from? And where are they housed?

• Personal datasets• Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)• World Bank• US Geological Survey (USGS)• From literature (meta-analyses)

GMN

Online InterfaceKNB: knb.ecoinformatics.org DataONE: dataone.org

Example: http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/metacat/knb-lter-mcr.1.20/knb

Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity Data Distribution

Data until: 07 Oct 2011Total: 25,191 data sets

Software

Morpho Kepler

User-friendly interface

KNB, DataOne, Morpho: versioningMorpho: csv files—attributes, other files

Recognition of dataset publications Treating publication of datasets as an actual manuscript publication

Continuing Challenges• Time

• Researchers: it takes too long• Re-formatting data tables into acceptable, best-practice formats

• Little recognition• Doesn’t count towards total number of publications• Slow process- DOIs are given to datasets now• Data citation—still relatively low

• Commitment-phobia

DCI: Data Citation Index

Questions?

Thank you!