Improving Data Management Capacity in the Mekong Basin Using SEAD

Dharma Akmon, PhDSEAD Manager of Education and Outreach

Improving Data Management Capacity in the Mekong Basin Using SEAD

Science for a Sustainable Mekong River System, Ho Chi Minh CitySeptember 17, 2014

“Science needs cooperation to work well.”

“data integration”

“Effective system for managing and making high quality data available”

“Avoid duplicating effort”

“research collaboration”

“Sharing what we know about the Mekong.”

“Need data to make an actionable set of recommendations”

“increase data and information sharing among MRC member countries”

Some Workshop Themes

http://sead-data.net/

Margaret Hedstrom, PIJames Myers, Co-PI

Beth Plale, Co-PI

Praveen Kumar, Co-PI

SEAD is a Collaborative, NSF-funded Project

SEAD Can Increase Data Management Capacity

1. Provides Platform for Collaboration During Data Collection, Processing, and Analysis

2. Serves as a Staging Area for Data Sharing and Preservation

3. Connects Researchers to Others and Their Data

1. Provides a Platform for Collaboration

Project Spaces Features

• Secure, team controlled

• Upload any type of data file (e.g. Excel, GIS Shapefiles, images, video, etc.)

• Bring in data from other sources

• Built for data

• Tools for adding information that will help you and your team understand and find the data later

Value Added to Research Team

• Central place for team’s data

• Allows you to add as much or as little that will help you use and find data

• Can look at things without downloading them

• Can see collection in a kind of aggregate

• Don’t have to build your own system

2. Serves as a Staging for Data Sharing/Preservation

• Tools to make “pre-print” data open to others

• “Virtual Archive” that preserves data and makes openly available.

SEAD Virtual Archive

SEAD partners with institutional repositories to archive data long-term.

Data receive permanent identifiers so they can be cited and found.

SEAD maintains copy of metadata, registers with other search portals (DataONE), and provides search tools across the repositories.

3. Connects Researchers to Others and Their Data

Person Profile

Organizational Profile

SEAD’s Current Status

Working with 18 projects

• Lower Mississippi Flood Project

• National Center for Earth System Dynamics

• Washtenaw County Parks

• Stewardship Network

• University of Michigan Biological Station

• College Conservation Collaboration

SEAD’s Current Status

Year 3 of 5 with potential of 5 more years of renewal

Active development phase where we’re seeking partners willing to provide input that will help us improve

Join us:Try things out on demo space: http://sead-demo.ncsa.illinois.edu/acr/Sign up for your own space by contacting dharmrae@umich.edu