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Michelle Y Chang

The USGS Data Management Web Site provides non-prescriptive data management guidance, best practices, tools, and resources in one convenient location. It’s intended to complement and support the Survey Manual handbook by providing guidance on how Survey Manual policies can be implemented. It offers a place to share and learn about USGS best practices in data management. The web site allows you to: Create a data management plan Develop data standards, data formats, and data templates Create compliant and robust metadata records Assign Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to datasets for citation and better tracking Preserve and archive digital data and physical samples Publish and share data to promote discoverability,...
These training materials are a product of the CDI-funded project: Data Management Training and Education. Training materials for a future USGS Data Management Workshop were developed, leveraging work done for DataONE. The materials were made available for the CDI community to review and provide feedback. All feedback was incorporated into the power point slides and finalized in FY12. Content was gathered from several sources including DataONE, a TDWI Education Data Management course attended by 6 members of the CDI community (Hutchison, Holl, Zolly, Henkel, Tessler, and Burley), and a USGS Data Management Workshop taught by Tom Chatfield of Bureau of Land Management. The CDI Data Management Training materials...
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