Help make data management fun! A group of us affiliated with the DataONE project are organizing a contest to develop fun, educational videos about data management. We'd like to raise a modest sum through SciFund to provide prizes to the winners (see description below). Thanks in advance for your support.
http://www.rockethub.com/projects/7472-7-toed-terrestrial-dolphins-bored-to-death When a species becomes endangered, or a hurricane devastates an ecosystem, access to existing data about those organisms and ecosystems is critical, especially when those ecosystems directly provide resources to humans - like clean water, timber or food. What was lost? When might it rebound? How can we help? But most environmental data sets are not publicly shared, or even managed by scientists in ways that allow easy sharing. And scientists basically are bored out of their skulls when you try to talk to them about data management. We plan to run a video contest that invites people to talk about data management and sharing in ways that they think are funny and engaging - and we can do it, but we need just a little prize money to create extra incentive for all those creative and enlightened students, postdocs and other researchers to get involved! We are suggesting $150 for top prize, $75 for two more winners. Also see many other opportunities to support research through SciFund at http://www.rockethub.com/projects/by_category/34-science Cliff Duke Ecological Society of America
