Workshops
Following is a list of 2011-'12 workshops sponsored or co-sponsored by the Graduate School.
Unless noted, confirmed workshops contain links to Employee Development for more information and registration.
Research Data Management Bootcamp
This intensive, three-day workshop prepares researchers to look after research-generated data responsibly; this workshop will also help researchers develop data-management plans required for grant proposals including NIH and NSF. You must attend all three days. Topics will include: data-management policies and law; data security; data management; short-term data preservation and long-term archiving; data publishing; finding and use of existing data sets; and resources to help with data management.
Day One: Why manage research data? Data-management law and policy
Why have research data taken on such importance to funders, policymakers, and institutions? How should researchers, research-IT professionals, and research support staff respond? What law and policies are relevant to research data? Who owns research data?
Day Two: Research data workflows
Decisions made throughout the research process impact the viability of research data. Learn best practices for the entire data lifecycle: planning for data; organizing and naming data files; using electronic lab notebooks; assessing what to keep and what to discard; managing short-term backups and versioning; assessing file formats for sustainability; finding standards; assessing cloud tools.
Day Three: Describing, sharing, publishing, and archiving data
How do you make research data useful to future researchers (yourself included)? Learn about how sharing data impacts research careers, metadata and metadata standards, dataset citation, dataset identifiers, data publication, and data repositories.
Presenter
Dorothea Salo (http://dsalo.info/) is a Faculty Associate in the School of Library and Information Studies (http://www.slis.wisc.edu/) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, as well as co-lead for UW-Madison's Research Data Services (http://researchdata.wisc.edu/). She has written and presented internationally on data curation, institutional repositories, social media, scholarly publishing, copyright, and user-centered design. Dorothea holds an MA in Library and Information Studies and another in Spanish from UW-Madison.
Other campus events
Following is a list of events of potential interest to researchers from across campus. To have your event listed here, sent e-mail to Webmaster at the link at the bottom of the page.
- IRB Web-based submission system training
- Choose one upcoming session on the IRB Web site.
- Chemical Hygiene Plan & Laboratory Safety Training
- Type "Chemical Hygiene" in the Search box of the Employee Development Web site to see a list of sessions.
Note: Dates, times, and location are subject to change without notice.