Register for the 2017 DataONE Users Group Meeting

[Robert Sandusky]

Registration is open until July 17th for the DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting

Meeting will be held July 24th – 25th 2017 and co-located with the Summer ESIP Federation Meeting at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. The DataONE Users Group (DUG) meeting will be a 2-day event featuring plenary presentations, topical breakout sessions, and community-led discussions.

There is no registration fee to attend and participate in the DUG meeting
Information, registration and group hotel rates can be found at: bit.ly/DUG2017

Meeting Theme and Objectives
The 2017 meeting theme, “Data Discoverability, Reproducibility, and Sustainability”, will bring together stakeholders to explore current advancements in these areas. Community talks and posters that explore broad topics of discoverability, reproducibility and sustainability are invited. Some examples are provided below:

Data Discoverability:

• Describing, Documenting, and Representing Data
• Connecting journal articles to datasets to repositories
• Distinguishing between publishing, data, preservation repositories

Reproducibility:

• Best Practices, Guidelines, and Standards
• Procedures, Tools, and Workflows
• Projects, Prototypes, and Use Cases

Sustainability:

• Collaborations, Partnerships, and Stakeholders
• Infrastructure, Resources, and Support
• Computation, Integration, and Certification

DataONE encourages DataONE Member Nodes, data scientists, researchers, scientists, students and others to submit abstracts for posters and talks.

Abstract Submission for Posters
Abstracts for posters are solicited during the registration process. Poster submissions will remain open until July.

Important dates
Hotel block available: July 7, 2017 or until filled
Meeting registration and poster submission deadline: July 17, 2017

Thanks!
Bob Sandusky
University of Illinois at Chicago
DataONE Users Group Steering Committee