DCERC Data Curation Workshop 2014

Agenda Track

Day 1: Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Introductions, overview, goals of workshop and field experiences at NCAR 

(Mary Marlino - NCAR, Carole Palmer - UIUC, Matt Mayernik - NCAR )

Working with Climate Model Data (and more) as a Data Scientist (Gary Strand - NCAR NESL)

BREAK

Student presentations on research interests

LUNCH

Lunch-Pairing of Master's students with data and science mentors; discussions over lunch

Developing a data infrastructure for the polar science community - Advanced Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service (ACADIS) project (Karen Andersen - NCAR EOL, Eric Nienhouse – NCAR CISL)

BREAK

NCAR Library experiences in developing an institutional repository: OpenSky (Jennifer Phillips, NCAR Library)

Wrap-up

DINNER

Dinner at UCAR Center Green Bistro – students, mentors, faculty, and staff to continue developing student projects

Day 2: Wednesday, June 4, 2014

STUDENTS ONLY – All UCAR interns meet with UCAR Pres. Council (FL2 Cafeteria)

Data preservation - Digital file format obsolescence (Heather Ryan, University of Denver, Library and Information Science)

BREAK

Understanding climate and weather data formats - NetCDF (Ethan Davis, UCAR Unidata)

Comprehensive Cross-organizational Data Management (Steve Worley, NCAR CISL)

LUNCH

Lunch-Pairing of Master's students with data and science mentors; discussions over lunch

PI panel – Library and information science perspectives on the workshop (Suzie Allard – UTK, Carole Palmer – UIUC, Mary Marlino – NCAR Library)

Workshop evaluation/feedback