Lightning talk summary

Abstract

EDITOR'S SUMMARY Eight brief talks at RDAP 2014 gave an intriguing introduction to a variety of projects in data curation. EarthCube, an effort to build a cyberinfrastructure to manage and share data in the geosciences, and GlueX, a massive scale data management project, both face the challenge of building strong collaborations of diverse stakeholders to direct project development. Training and implementation are the focus for an intense team effort by Stanford University librarians to handle a repository backlog as well as for the University of Cincinnati's training for trainers to help researchers adopt good data management practices. Establishing a deposit workflow and creating and assigning consistent metadata are key to linking reports for Purdue University's Joint Transportation Research Program and to coordinating the National Snow and Ice Data Center's multiple databases. Data management and preservation extends to data related to the process as well as the end product in game design at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Speakers from the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign discussed the disheartening finding that the National Science Foundation's funding for research proposals did not correlate with their having data management plans.