POLAR2018 - Best practices for data/metadata

[vlraymond]

Session: Best practices for data & metadata submission

• Storing and preparing data in open source formats
• Stability, longevity, interoperability
• Metadata best practices & automated metadata quality checks

Pre-existing resources:

• Introduction to Research Data Management - case studies (Oxford)
• Preservation and Archiving of Digital Media
• Research Data Management at CODATA-RDA Summer School in Research Data Science Aug 1-12 2016 - specifically the "Reasons not to share Exercise.docx
• [Sharing and Archiving Your Research Data Workshop Materials (UEL) - specifically the Appraisal Exercise.doc](https://zenodo.org/record/28323
• Digital Preservation for Researchers - teaching modules
• EUDAT Summer School - How FAIR are your data
• [Introduction to Research Data Management - half-day course (Oxford)] - specifically the Intro_to_RDM_handout_3_David_Shotton_Twenty_Questions_for_Research_Data_Management.pdf](https://zenodo.org/record/28325)
• Data One Education Module - Accessing Data in the Literature

Session idea: Accessing data in the literature

Adjust to DataOne Education Module "Accessing Data in the Literature to be shorter. Use Arctic examples - 5 to 10 articles.

1. Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling
2. The Contribution of Bering Sea Water to the Arctic Ocean (1961)
3. The Arctic oscillation signature in the wintertime geopotential height and temperature fields (1998) - 1982 citations
4. Development of best practices for scientific research vessel operations in a changing Arctic: A case study for R/V Sikuliaq (2014) - 1 citation
5. Are Mixed Economies Persistent or Transitional? Evidence Using Social Networks from Arctic Alaska (2016) - 11 citations
6. Who Cares about Polar Regions? Results from a Survey of U.S. Public Opinion (2008)
7. Developing an arctic subsistence observation system (2011)

idea 1: Work in groups to discuss and search using laptops / phones if they have them.
idea 2: Have them find an article they like, and then make a 2 min plan for getting and re-using the data. 10 mins - Have a game where they roll dice and move across a board. Discuss how their plan differed from the gameplay

Draft / example gameboard

Metadata

• Data One Education Module - Metadata hands on Adjust to be shorter, use Arctic examples from 3 - 5 different fields of study, print out sample copies of metadata and data for quick review and discussion. Make one a real example from the ADC, talk about that afterwards in discussion portion