Hello Everyone,

You're invited to a Data Management Interest (DMI) Group Webinar. Have you got data? A little, or a lot? What data management issues do you have in common with others? Brian Westra will share his data management experiences from a data services librarian point-of-view.** * What*: *Webinar - Partnering with libraries for data management** Speaker*: Brian Westra http://library.uoregon.edu/dc/directory/profile.php?profile=bwestra, Lorry Lokey Science Data Services Librarian, University of Oregon Libraries* When*: Noon to 1 PM EDT on Monday 20 October 2014 *Where*: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/datamgmt/* Abstract*: iDigBio is about partnerships and collaboration, and libraries and archives are increasingly interested in partnering with scientists to support /research data management/. I'll briefly describe some of the projects I'm working on, and the questions and challenges I'm encountering as a data services librarian supporting/researcher's biodiversity and ecological datasets/. These include supporting small collections, migrating data into more supportive systems (e.g., Specify), and facilitating management and preservation of image data (OMERO). I have plenty of questions; perhaps you have answers!

*Format*: Presentation followed by open community discussion as part of an on-going series from the iDigBio Data Management Interest Group (DMI) https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Data_Management_Interest_Group. Calendar Announcement: https://www.idigbio.org/content/data-management-webinar-partnering-libraries...

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