Joint session between the CODATA WG on Virtual Laboratories In Earth Physics and Environmental Sciences and the eGY WG: Best Practice.
Chair: Jean Bonnin
The preservation of scientific data for future generations of scientists goes well beyond the simple act of storage. Today’s data managers must consider data quality, data accessibility, and methods for handling extremely large data volumes. These topics and more fall broadly under the heading of “Scientific Data Stewardship”. This session solicits papers from a broad range of scientific disciplines seeking “best practices” developed for handling stewardship issues. In particular we will address (1) metadata related issues; (2) long term data preservation; (3) integration of data archives and systems; (4) data quality control techniques; (5) At-risk data and data rescue; (6) Scientific stewardship techniques, in particularly those focused on handling large volume data sets. The goal of this session is to discover commonalities across the traditional scientific disciplines and how these can best be utilized by the community at large.
Topics covered include: metadata generation and distribution, long term data preservation, integration of data archives and systems, data quality control techniques, At-risk data and data rescue, scientific stewardship techniques