[Data-Mongers] Informatics talk: J. Schopf - Production Data - Thurs 1/6 3:30PM

[Holly Miller]

A special seminar sponsored by the Center for Library and Informatics at MBL will take place Thursday, January 6th, 2011 from 3:30-4:30 PM in Speck Auditorium, Rowe Building on the MBL campus (map).

Jennifer M. Schopf (WHOI and NSF)  will give a talk entitled: "Production Data"

About the talk:

In the last 10 years, the amount of data generated by scientists has grown exponentially, and yet we still don’t know good ways to collect data sets, tag them for future use, discover data sets others have created, or make our own data sets accessible to a broad audience. This talk will discuss the idea of treating data the same way we do production-quality software: early collecting being the equivalent of a prototype, and then moving more towards having a rigorous methodology to make data sets easy to discover and use as our projects grow and our collaborators expand. Embedded in this discussion will be points about the recent NSF data management plan requirements, ongoing work with the WHOI Ocean Informatics team, and how we can achieve reproducible science through better data management.

About the speaker:

Dr. Jennifer M. Schopf is a member of the Ocean Informatics team at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), where she is helping to develop a vision and implementation strategy to strengthen WHOI’s participation in cyberinfrastructure and ocean informatics programs, focusing on data needs. She is also a program officer at the National Science Foundation. Prior to this, she was a Scientist at the Distributed Systems Lab at Argonne National Laboratory for 7 years, and spent 3½ years as a researcher at the National eScience Center in Edinburgh, UK. She received MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, San Diego in Computer Science and Engineering and a BA from Vassar College. Currently, her research interests include building sustainable software, performance prediction, and anomaly detection in distributed system environments. She has co-edited a book, co-authored over 50 refereed papers, and given over 100 invited talks.

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Holly Miller
Center for Library and Informatics
hmiller at mbl.edu
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