U41A:
How Safe and Persistent Is Your Research?

Note: Abstract submissions to Union sessions are by invitation only.



Session ID#: 25700

Session Description:
The digital age has brought new opportunities for Earth and space science research.  Automated instruments enable data to be collected at ever increasing rates; data can be analyzed and processed at higher resolutions; modeling of multiple scenarios is now routine whilst digital preparation of manuscripts for publication is far easier than on a typewriter.  But today, the persistence of research outputs and related artifacts is not guaranteed and this is not acceptable, particularly for research related to longitudinal studies of environmental change. 

Ensuring preservation of research outputs is a growing concern, particularly with rapid changes in hardware and software. This session will present a panel of speakers on the current state of the art in preserving and sustaining research artifacts (e.g., samples, data, software, models, publications), the infrastructures to support them (museums, data and software repositories, libraries, etc.), as well as the expected contributions of researchers, institutions and funding agencies.

Primary Convener:  Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Open Science Leadership, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Denise J Hills, Geological Survey of Alabama, Energy Investigations Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Chairs:  Denise J Hills, Geological Survey of Alabama, Energy Investigations Program, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Open Science Leadership, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Shelley Stall, American Geophysical Union, Open Science Leadership, Washington, DC, United States
Co-Organized with:
Union, and Earth and Space Science Informatics
Index Terms:

1908 Cyberinfrastructure [INFORMATICS]
1912 Data management, preservation, rescue [INFORMATICS]
1976 Software tools and services [INFORMATICS]
6610 Funding [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Where Will All Your Samples Go? (Invited) (208976)
Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
Challenges in Managing Trustworthy Large-scale Digital Science (Invited) (212231)
Benjamin James Kingston Evans, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Designing Research Services: Cross-Disciplinary Administration and the Research Lifecycle (Invited) (218666)
Gregory Madden, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
This presentation will discuss how PLOS ONE collaborates with many different scientific communities to help create, share, and preserve the scholarly works produced by their researchers with emphasis on current common difficulties faced by communities, practical solutions, and a broader view of the importance of open data and reproducibility. (Invited) (221078)
Kerry Kroffe, Public Library of Science, San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES

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