The Integrated CZO Data Managment Project(CZOData) has developed a cyber-infrastructure to enable publication, sharing and integration of heterogeneous data collected at CZO sites.  New funding secured from NSF in the last 12 months has kicked off a new phase of development.

This seminar series is intended to help interested CZO investigators, students & staff understand how to use the exising cyber-infrastructure and provide input to new development efforts.  All are welcome.

CZOData Cyber-Seminars will be presented via WebEx every 7-14 days throughout the late winter and spring of 2014.  Screen-casts will be recorded and made available to the public.  

For additional seminars, see Data Cyber-seminars page.

Spring 2014 Presentations

#1. CZOData Introduction & Overview
Anthony Aufdenkampe.
Mon. 3/10 at 12-1 EST.  Watch Recording or Download Slides.

#2. Protocols for sharing CZOData: Part 1: Data Publication with a Capital P
Kerstin Lehnert & Anthony Aufdenkampe
Mon. 3/17 at 12-1 EST.  Watch Recording or Download Slides.

• Motivation for citable data, data DOIs, etc
• Public/Private Data, CZO Data use agreements & Creative Commons licences
• DOI registration on EarthChem vs. other agents/repositories

#3. Protocols for sharing CZOData: Part 2: Registering data files via CriticalZone.org
David Lubinski, Tom Whitenack & Anthony Aufdenkampe
Thur. 3/20, 3-4 pm EST. Watch Recording or Download Slides.

• Walk-through demo for how to register datasets via CriticalZone.org
• Description of automatic dataset registration in CZOData Central and availability at http://search.criticalzone.org/
• Description of CZO Display Files and automated data ingestion into CUAHSI HIS.
• Discussion of future CZO Display File v2 (DRAFT Info available to CZOData IMC members only)

#4. CZOData Future Systems & Intro to Observations Data Model 2.0 (ODM2)
Jeff Horsburgh and Anthony Aufdenkampe
Thur. 3/27, 3-4 pm EST. Watch Recording or Download Slides.

• ODM2 is the foundation for new cyber-infrastructure being developed in 2014
  • CZO Display File v2 specification
  • CZO Shared Vocabularies
  • BiG CZ SSI Portal, Toolbox and Central
• ODM2 enables data management and software functionality that was not previously possible
• ODM2 use cases:
  • CZChemDB soil characterization and geochemistry
  • CRB-CZO suspended sediment fluxes & geochemistry
  • Little Bear River hydrological and water quality time series
  • North West Ocean Observing System (NANOOS)
• Learn more about ODM2 at at https://github.com/UCHIC/ODM2

#5. Sample management and IGSN registration
Kerstin Lehnert
Thur. 4/3, 3-4 pm EST.  Watch Recording or Download Slides.

• Description of International GeoSample Number (IGSN)
• Walk-through the System for Earth SAmple Registration (SESAR)
• Description of plans to develop a CZ-specific IGSN registration agent
• Solicitation for feedback on CZ-specific metadata vocabularies

#6. Protocols for sharing CZOData: Part 3: Publishing to EarthChem & other Repositories
Kerstin Lehnert & Leslie Hsu
Thur. 4/24, 3-4 pm EST.  Watch Recording or Download Slides.

• EarthChem walk through demo
• Other Recommended Repositories & DOI Registration Agents

#7. CriticalZone.org: Guidelines for Authoring Content
David Lubinski & Shelly Sommer (INSTAAR Information & Outreach Director)
Tues. 4/29, 1-2 pm EST.  Watch Recording or Download Slides.

• How-to guide to writing good web content, frequently.
• Note: audio quality isn't great but still listenable (microphone problem, gets better after 6 min)