Publishing your ecological data is easier than you think

O'Brien, Margaret

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

243, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

Margaret O'Brien¹, Corinna Gries², Kristin Vanderbilt³ and Colin A. Smith², (1)Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, (2)Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (3)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Curating ecological data for open and reproducible science is increasingly required by funders and journals, and for a traditional ecologist it can be a challenge to meet this obligation. The NSF funded Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) is here to help. EDI’s approach is based on decades of experience and well-tested software. EDI provides online and in-person help, training and documentation, breaking data curation tasks down into a 5-phase system to help anyone -- whether you are an experienced data scientist or not, whether you plan to do the work in your own lab or ask EDI to help.

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