There’s been a flurry of upcoming virtual conferences and webinars springing up and providing educational opportunities while obviating the need for travel in wintry weather. In a previous post, I had noted the upcoming DataONE webinar series that begins on Feb. 9th with the webinar “Open Data and Science: Towards Optimizing the Research Process.”
NISO is sponsoring a six hour long (11 am – 5 pm EST) virtual conference on Feb. 18th: “Scientific Data Management : Caring for your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth. Hosted by Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of NISO, the program includes speakers from the Dept. of Energy, Emory, Tufts, Oregon State University, UIUC, the Center for Open Science, and the RMap project. The final session will be a roundtable discussion. Program topics for the conference include:
- 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
Finally (although I suspect I’ll soon be adding to this snowballing list), Elsevier is sponsoring the webinar “Institutional & Research Repositories: Characteristics, Relationships and Roles” on Feb. 26th from 11 am-12:15 pm (EST)
