ESA 2018 Data Help Desk

Quick Links for ESA Help Desk Ecological Society of America
Date: August 6-10, 2018 New Orleans, LA
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Ecological data repositories and data specialists will collaborate at the ESA 2018 meeting in New Orleans to add a Data Help Desk to the Poster/Exhibition Hall. The Environmental Data Initiative (EDI), iDigBio, Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), DataCite, DataONE, and Arctic Data Center will offer three types of assistance:
1) Data Reference Desk - for general information management and data discovery and use questions
2) Meet the Expert - one-on-one sessions
3) DataBytes - short presentations and demonstrations about ecological data topics ranging from data repositories to analytical tools to creating metadata

Resources

• Arctic Data Center
  • Arctic Data Center Training

• DataCite
  • DOI Citation Formatter
  • Repository Finder tool

• DataONE
  • Data Management Skillbuilding Hub
  • DataONE Information Management Best Practices Database

• EDI
  • Information Management Training Resources
  • Upcoming Training Events

• ESIP
  • Data Management Training Clearinghouse

• iDigBio
  • Using the iDigBio Portal, API and Biocollections data