[Air-L] DataONE Webinar May 8th: What it means to be a Member Node

[Robert Sandusky]

Register for the free DataONE webinar: What it means to be a Member Node.

Our next webinar in the 2017/8 DataONE Webinar Series will be held on *Tuesday
May 8th at 0900 Pacific / 1000 Mountain / 1100 Central / 1200 Eastern*.
This webinar ends our academic calendar and brings us towards our upcoming
DataONE Users Group meeting (https://www.dataone.org/
dataone-users-group/2018-meeting) where we will be engaging with current
and future participants in the DataONE network.

The webinar, titled “*What it means to be a Member Node: Member Nodes share
their views*”, will showcase some current DataONE members and provide an
overview on the DataONE federated network. The webinar will be a panel
presentation by DataONE team members (*Dave Vieglais, Monica Ihli, Amy
Forrester*) and repository leads (*Mark Sevilla - EDI, James Duncan - FEMC,
Ken Casey - NCEI*). We hope you can join us.

Register at: https://dataone.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_
jphOUASHQS6WdsxZtnU0JA
Full information and can be found at: https://www.dataone.org/
upcoming-webinar. Abstract and bios below.

DataONE webinars are recorded and made available online later the same
day.  You can review previous webinars at: https://www.dataone.org/
previous-webinars/2018

Best
Amber

*Abstract*

DataONE Member Nodes are the key to getting research data available through
DataONE and are the site where data is gathered, managed, and stored. As
part of the DataONE federation, Member Nodes expose all or portions of
their data products by implementing a common set of service interfaces.
Member Nodes are typically existing data repositories within the earth
science domain and often already fill an important role in their respective
communities supporting data management, curation, discovery, and access
functions. These preservation-oriented repositories invest time and
resources to join DataONE’s persistent, reliable, and sustainable
cyberinfrastructure with the common goal to unite environment-based
research through its distributed architecture. The benefits of which can
lead to better visibility and dissemination of their data, long-term data
management, and broader community engagement.

*Speaker Bios*

As the Director for Development and Operations at DataONE, *Dave
Vieglais* oversees
development and implementation of architecture, computer science research,
and technological evolution through the activities of the Working Groups
and the Cyberinfrastructure CIT, including the staff of full-time
developers and post-docs.
Dave has extensive experience in developing technical infrastructure for
integrating biodiversity information at the global level (i.e. DiGIR,
Species Analyst). He also brings significant biodiversity modeling
expertise and leadership experience in Global Biodiversity Information
Facility (GBIF) and the Natural Science Collections Alliance.
*Monica Ihli* is a DataONE developer operating from the Center for
Information & Communication Studies at the University of Tennessee. She
specializes in the systems which integrate contributing Member Nodes into
the DataONE Federation.

*Amy Forrester* is the DataONE Member Node Coordinator and located at the
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her main responsibility is relationship
management between DataONE Cyberinfrastructure and both contributing and
potential Member Nodes.

*Mark Servilla* is Principal Investigator of EDI and is based at the
University of New Mexico. Mark leads the development of the PASTA data
repository software. Mark has a MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Earth
and Planetary Sciences.

*Jim Duncan* serves as the director of the Forest Ecosystem Monitoring
Cooperative, where he strives to improve access to information and
monitoring of forested ecosystems in the northeast. He supports Cooperators
by making long-term monitoring data on the region’s forested ecosystems
more accessible, providing needed aggregation and syntheses of disparate
data into products that are more useful for seeing and responding to
change, and building new regional networks for greater collaboration in
monitoring. He also supports interdisciplinary teams in UVM's Rubenstein
School of Environment and Natural Resources with spatiotemporal analysis
and integration of social and ecological data, and serves on his towns tree
board. He previously worked to increase transparency in the oil, gas and
mining sectors by giving decision makers and citizens tools to map and
interact with data, including in Mongolia and Ghana.

*Ken Casey* is the Deputy Director of the Data Stewardship Division in the
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and is currently
fulfilling the role of the Director as well. Ken provides leadership and
guidance to NCEI staff and sets the technical direction of division
activities, projects, and programs. He coordinates across NCEI and with the
broader community to promote NCEI as a responsible citizen of the global
environmental data management community, leveraging from and contributing
to relevant activities of that community


Amber E Budden, PhD
Director for Community Engagement and Outreach
DataONE
University of New Mexico
1312 Basehart SE
Albuquerque NM 87106

cell: 505.205.7675
aebudden at dataone.unm.edu