Upcoming Conferences and Sessions and Workshops, Oh My!

Since beginning to follow groups and conferences relevant to data management issues for information professionals in November 2012, I've known that there is always something upcoming in the not-too-distant future that looks fascinating and informative. There is a panoply happening right now, though, that could have us all booked out of the office for the bulk of 2013 (given inexhaustible travel budgets, that is). Here are a few upcoming events that have caught my eye:

• Happening right now is Open Repositories 2013 (#or2013) in Prince Edward Island, CA, July 8-12. I've been following the twitter feed via the hashtag and Storify; lots of interesting talk going on around data policies, data curation methods and technologies, the research lifecycle...
• The University of East London has been training various types of staff on research data management over the last year. They're summarizing some of their work at a daylong workshop, "Support for support: training those in RDM support roles," July 16, London, UK. I'm currently working my way through some of UEL's online curriculum offerings for librarians, and very much wish I could be there for this session.
• For those interested in the metadata side of scientific data, Camp-4-Data in Lisbon, Portugal, on September 6, will be exploring many facets of metadata standards used to manage scientific data. This is being held just before iPres, the 10th International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects, and DCMI, the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. Head in a whirl yet?
• The HathiTrust Research Center UnCamp 2013, September 8-9, Urbana, IL, is targeted to digital humanities tool developers, researchers and librarians of HathiTrust institutions, and will include hands-on coding and demonstration, use cases, and community building in an un-conference programmming format. Register early to help form the program.
• Data Information Literacy Symposium, West Lafayette, IN, September 23-24. This workshop will "explore roles for practicing librarians in teaching competencies in data management and curation to graduate students." Registration for this is currently full, but following via twitter should be interesting.
• The Digital Humanities Data Curation Workshop is being held in College Park, MD, October 16-18. Their resource guide is a great place to start if you can't attend one of their workshops.
• The 2013 Digital Library Foundation Forum, November 4-6 in Austin, TX. Proposed sessions include one on using a CRM tool to track data management services in an academic library, one on the influence of faculty rank on attitudes toward research data management, several presentations on encouraging better and more specific use of metadata, fostering a culture of data sharing among researchers, data management education for librarians and researchers...

I'm sure there are others out there that I missed; if you have a suggestion, please add it in the comments below.

DataONE Summer Internship Program

Data folks interested in spending part of their summer working on intensive data-and-science-related topics can now apply for one of eight open DataONE internship positions. The internships are available to undergraduates, graduates and post-graduates who have received their masters in the last five years, and there are no restrictions on field of study as long as prospective intern's qualifications and interests match a project. Each intern will be paired with a mentor, who does not have to be in the same location or institution. 2013 project titles include:

- Next Generation Data Environment: Semantically-Enabling the DataONE Metadata Environment
- Ontology Mappings in the Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Evaluation of Ontology Coverage for Curation
- Integrating Data Stories into DataONE Education and Community Engagement Products
- Data Policies for Public Participation in Scientific Research
- Bi-level Metadata Registry Development
- PBase: Provenance as a First-class Citizen in DataONE
- Build Fundamental Components for Provenance-aware Model Exploration, Evaluation, and Benchmarking Cyber-infrastructure Prototype
- A Visualization Tool for Provenance in DataONE

More detail about these topics and the internships is available at www.dataone.org/internships.

Application deadline is March 17th 2013. The internship runs from May 27 - July 26 and interns will receive a stipend of $5,000.

The Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is "a virtual organization dedicated to providing open, persistent, robust, and secure access to biodiversity and environmental data, supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation."

Data-related sessions at ALA-Midwinter

ALA-Midwinter is coming up in Seattle, January 25-29, 2013, and there are several session related to data curation, management, literacy, and other related issues. This list no doubt leaves something out, post any additions to the comments.

FRIDAY

OCLC Americas Member Meeting and Symposium

Friday, January 25

11:00 am – 2:00 pm | Red Lion Hotel Fifth Avenue, Emerald Ballroom

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8754

SATURDAY

GIS Discussion Group & Map Collection Management Discussion Group

W Seattle Hotel, Great Room 2BC

Saturday, January 26 8am - 11:30a

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8726

ACRL ULS Campus Administration & Leadership Discussion Group

Topic: Planning & Partnerships for Research Data Services

Saturday, January 26, 2013, 3:00p-4:00p
Westin Seattle (Denny/Mercer)

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/9325

OCLC Linked Data Roundtable

Saturday January 26, 10:30a-12:00p

Convention Ctr Room 213

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8758

Digital Literacy Forum: Setting the Agenda

Saturday January 26, 3:00p-4:00p
Washington State Convention Center, TCC304

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/9153

SUNDAY
Top Technology Trends

Topic: "If Data I Created Resides in a Cloud Environment, Is It Still Mine?"
Sunday, January 27, 2013, 10:30a to 11:30a
Washington State Convention Center, Room 606-607
http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8928

Linked Library Data

Sunday, Jan 27, 10:30-11:30

Washington State Convention Center, Room 205

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8813

ACRL WGSS Section is sponsoring a digital humanities discussion group.

Sunday, January 27, 2013 - 10:30a to 11:30a
Westin Seattle Hotel Cascade

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8914.

ACRL Digital Curation Interest Group

Sunday, Jan. 27, 1-2:30 PM
Westin Seattle Hotel, Denny/Mercer

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/9329

Digital Literacy Task Force Meeting

Sunday, Jan. 27, 1-2:30 PM
Washington State Convention Center, Room 307-308

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/9109

Library Technology Challenges: Woes and Wows

Sunday, Jan. 27, 1-2:30 PM
Washington State Convention Center, TCC301

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8942

ACRL Digital Humanities Discussion Group

Sunday, Jan 27, 4:30-5:30p

Westin Seattle Hotel, Fifth Ave Room

http://alamw13.ala.org/node/8710

Interview with Stephanie Wright #IDCC13

UW's Data Services Coordinator Stephanie Wright will be speaking at the upcoming 8th International Digital Curation Conference in Amsterdam in January 2013. The conference brings together folks who create, manage and use information, and those who research and teach about the curation process. This year's theme, "Infrastructure, Intelligence, Innovation: driving the Data Science Agenda," has invited speakers from around the globe to discuss issues such as stewardship in the marine sciences, data stories from the business world, supporting data-intensive research, and many others.

In preparation for her participation in the symposium, titled "What is a Data Scientist?," the conference organizers interviewed Wright and asked her opinion on pressing issues, her thoughts of types of data, and more. Follow the conference January 14-16 via #idcc13.