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Activity Number:
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299
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Consulting
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| Abstract - #303008 |
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Title:
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Data Management and Availability in the Earth Sciences
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Author(s):
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Richard W. Carlson*+
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Companies:
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Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Address:
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Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, 20015,
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Keywords:
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Data management ; earth sciences ; accessibility ; web services
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Abstract:
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Data management efforts in the field of earth sciences have expanded dramatically over the past 10 to 15 years. Most earth science journals now allow unlimited length supplemental online data tables. Though still spotty, management of some of these data sets is done by community oriented, web-based, data archives. The largest are the National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA) and a seismology database managed by the NSF-supported Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology. Similar NSF-sponsored efforts are starting in other earth science fields, for example the EarthChem database that archives rock geochemical data. The difficulty in creating and maintaining such database efforts is their substantial cost. Convincing the research community that diverting significant funds from new research activities to infrastructure projects such as data management has met with mixed success.
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