Now that the DMT Clearinghouse is up and running, and following on from some user testing of the interface and functionality, we want to provide a number of opportunities for interested participants to help us move the Clearinghouse forward in a wild & woolly working session. Organizers will bring suggestions for educational resources to add to the DMT Clearinghouse, but are also seeking new sources of training materials. You can prepare for the session ahead of time by bringing information about any educational resources that you think would be useful to researchers and data professionals. At the session, we will work with the attendees to review the suggested resources, submit those appropriate for the Clearinghouse, and allot time to look for other resources to add to our list of resources to submit.
The kind of educational resources we’re looking for could be delivered online, face to face, or using a combination of both techniques. Examples of possible resources include: remote access tutorials, webinars, videos, audio presentations, exercises or training activities such as specific examples of data use or so-called data “recipes” that could be used to supplement other educational resources, syllabi, lesson plans, teacher guides, related tool training guides (e.g., for DMP Online), etc. All resources should provide instruction directed to researchers and/or data professionals who wish to train themselves or others on best practices related to the management of research data including but not limited to Earth science data. In terms of audience, generally, we are looking for resources that would offer instruction to upper level scientists of all types, undergrads / early grad students, post-docs and early career scientists, data professionals such as data managers and data librarians, and citizen scientists.
For ideas about what to submit, check out what’s already in the DMT Clearinghouse at:
http://dmtclearinghouse.esipfed.org. At the working session, organizers and experienced submitters will be able to answer questions, show examples, explain decisions made with respect to prior submissions, and celebrate your additions to the inventory as well as collect your feedback on your user experiences with the DMT Clearinghouse website functionality and resource submission form. As there is a limit to the number of people who can attend remotely, if you wish to attend this session remotely, please let us know that you will be attending on the ESIP Sched app or at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TaGX6xJt-JKDtjrA-eUGTXf1i2bm-6wKEgk6W1D54PU/edit?usp=sharing. For questions, please contact either Nancy Hoebelheinrich (
nhoebel@kmotifs.com) or Sophie Hou (
hou@ucar.edu).
