Are you engaged in transdisciplinary research as an ecologist? We would be delighted if you would consider submitting an abstract for our upcoming session on “Optimizing Data Sharing in Transdisciplinary Research: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due” at the Fall AGU meeting.
The Belmont Forum, DataONE and DataCite have teamed up to convene this session at the upcoming American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2017 Fall meeting (11–15 December, New Orleans, LA, USA). Data access, management, and curation are swiftly becoming a focal point of scientific research, with many funding agencies developing open data policies to enable transparency and reproducibility. Publishers, researchers, and data managers are just a few stakeholders in this rapidly changing frontier. Abstracts are due by 2 August. We would be happy to answer questions or discuss ideas as you prepare your abstract. If you are unable to attend AGU, or are already overcommitted, please share this request with colleagues who may be interested. https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session27267 IN047: Optimizing Data Sharing in Transdisciplinary Research: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due Session ID#: 27267 Session Description: Research data are fundamental to the academic enterprise. The ability to address ‘grand-challenge’ questions requires efficient sharing of, and accessibility to, multidisciplinary data. Federal, funder, and publisher mandates increasingly require that data are made publicly available and many organizations provide guidelines on best data management practices. Yet data do not currently receive the same level of recognition as other research products. The primary vehicle for scholarly communication and credit remains the journal article, and the academic community still gauges the impact of scholarship primarily through article usage statistics. This session will complement the panel session “Overcoming Barriers to Effective Data Sharing for Collaborative, Transdisciplinary Research”. Here we will more broadly explore factors surrounding data sharing and attribution; the impact of open data on career advancement; technical developments and infrastructure; data citation, credit and other best practices; and examples of how attribution facilitates or inhibits the use of transnational multidisciplinary data. Primary Convener: Amber E Budden, DataONE, Santa Barbara, CA, United States Conveners: Robert J. Samors 1, Patricia Cruse 2 and Carrie E. Seltzer 1 (1) Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures and Data Management Project, Tucson, AZ, United States (2) DataCite, Berkeley, United States Index Terms: 1904 Community standards [INFORMATICS] 1912 Data management, preservation, rescue [INFORMATICS] 1930 Data and information governance [INFORMATICS] 1976 Software tools and services [INFORMATICS] Best, Carrie Seltzer (on behalf of the conveners) P.S. Want to better understand transdisciplinary research? Check out this blog post about how it's like a smoothie: https://ian.umces.edu/blog/2017/03/06/transdisciplinary-literacy-seven-principles-that-help-define-transdisciplinary-research/
