Find it, understand it, use it: How repositories help you navigate data challenges

O'Brien, Margaret

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Margaret O'Brien¹, Corinna Gries², Mark S. Servilla³, Kristin Vanderbilt⁴ 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)Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, (4)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Research data repositories like the Environmental Data Initiative - which houses data from the LTER network - are addressing technical issues that make it easier for you to find, use and understand data. Here we introduce a few: metadata that allows major search engines like Google to search across many repositories, semantic annotation to assist with both finding and understanding data, visualization tools to help you determine if that data is fit for your particular use, and automated code generators and harmonized formats which greatly speed up your ability to get datasets directly to your processing environment.

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