Resources

Enable new science and knowledge creation through universal access to data about life on earth and the environment that sustains it.
DataONE mission

Achieving this mission requires, in part, that DataONE reaches out to a broad and diverse community of users and promote the adoption of best practices for managing the full data life cycle, from data gathering, to management, to analysis.

DataONE will make the scientist an active member in the data life cycle and in so doing create a new paradigm for scientific data stewardship, sharing, and synthesis. This will lead to a generation of new science that is not limited by data access or organization.

This “Learn” section contains information on “Best Practices” for the data life cycle that will be useful for students, researchers, and decision makers:

• Elements of an effective data management plan to help develop a comprehensive plan necessary for data management and to use in grant proposals (an NSF requirement).
• Best Practices Database that describes to scientists and students how best to perform a certain data or information management function such as naming a file, label columns in a spreadsheet, etc. and a “Tools” database.
• Tools Database that includes a brief description and key source material for tools that that can be used for exploration, acquisition, analysis, visualization, and scientific workflow.

Training Events
DataONE provides training to scientists, students, and data managers via presentations, web forums, and multi-media that includes aspects of managing, preserving, analyzing and visualizing data.