TODAY - Cyberseminar: The Director's View of the CUAHSI Water Data Center

[Jon Pollak]

Dear Colleagues,

CUAHSI's Spring HIS Cyberseminar Series resumes today (4/24) at 3 PM EST with a talk from the Director of the CUAHSI Water Data Center, Dr. Alva Couch, who will discuss the goals and priorities of the recently funded data center:

In this talk, Dr. Couch will give users a glimpse of the future of the CUAHSI Water Data Center, from the point of view of its current director. Running a national Data Center of any kind is a constant balancing act between cost and value. The value of data -- and the value of a data center in providing it -- is easy to understand; it is measured in terms of whether the data helps the data center's constituents meet their scientific goals. However, curating and providing useful data incurs some perhaps surprising and counter- intuitive costs.  Thus, the director of any data center must answer some really difficult questions, including the most difficult question of all: "exactly what is the value of publishing a specific dataset?" From this point of view, Dr. Couch will describe some of the first-year priorities for the Water Data Center in detail, and give a brief look into its future.

To attend, follow the link and dial into the conference line listed below:

http://cuahsi.adobeconnect.com/his/ 

Conference Line: (866) 244-8528

Participant Code: 391191

 

We hope you will join us!

Jon