SPNHC 2022 Data Help Desk
About
For most collections professionals, a (relatively) new reality of the job is that they must manage data about specimens as well as the specimens themselves. The SPNHC Data Help Desk will provide conference attendees with an opportunity to stop by our booth and ask data-related questions in an informal and personal setting. Our local presence at the conference is paired with a concurrent virtual Data Help Desk on Twitter. This concept follows a model that iDigBio & partners have successfully implemented over the past four years of meetings with the Ecological Society of America, the American Society of Mammalogists, and the Entomological Society of America.
How to participate
1. Stop by our booth at SPNHC 2022 in Edinburgh and ask a question! See the schedule of activities below.
2. Ask a question asynchronously via our jamboard. This will be live for the duration of the conference, and subsequently archived on this wiki page.
3. Ask a question asynchronous via the #data-help-desk channel in the SPNHC Slack workspace. Join the SPNHC Slack here if you haven't already!
Schedule of activities
Please see the website for a full conference program. The table below highlights activities being organized as part of the Data Help Desk, which will take place in the conference exhibitor hall at a booth sponsored by iDigBio.
| Monday, June 6th - McEwan Hall | ||
| Time | Program | Data Help Desk Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break | Booth staffed with data help desk partners |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | Booth staffed with data help desk partners |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Break | Booth staffed with data help desk partners |
| Tuesday, June 7th - McEwan Hall | ||
| Time | Program | Data Help Desk Activity |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Pre-session | Booth staffed with data help desk partners |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break | Booth staffed with data help desk partners |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | Booth staffed with data help desk partners |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break | Booth staffed with data help desk partners |
| Wednesday, June 7th - McEwan Hall | ||
| Time | Program | Data Help Desk Activity |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Pre-session | Booth staffed with data help desk partners |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break | Booth staffed with data help desk partners |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | Booth staffed with data help desk partners |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Break | Booth staffed with data help desk partners |
Resources
Learning Data Skills and Best Practices
- ESIP Data Management Training Clearinghouse
- Data Management Skillbuilding Hub
- The Carpentries
- GitHub repo with specific use cases of biodiversity specimen data, documented conceptually and, where possible, linked to technical solutions
Planning for Data Management
- Data Management Planning Tool - DMPTool
- Registry of Research Data Repositories
- Data Repository Selection Decision Tree for Researchers in the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences