INS 1: Interoperable Ecological Data: Putting the I into FAIR Data

Session Organizer(s)

• Corinna Gries

  University of Wisconsin
  Madison, WI, USA

Moderator(s)

• Corinna Gries

  University of Wisconsin
  Madison, WI, USA

Volunteer(s)

• Shih-Huai Cheng

  Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

Publishing data for reuse by others and in new combinations to answer new questions is becoming more widespread in ecology. However, regardless of the latest buzzword or acronym describing the process, recommendations or requirements for data repositories, expectations of funders or journals, and advancing data archiving skills, the concept of data interoperability still remains elusive. It is interpreted differently by data providers, users, and repositories. Its multidimensionality makes it difficult to measure and communicate it, and, hence, manage expectations. This Inspire Session will provide a lively discussion of data interoperability as determined by sampling methodology, data storage technology, extent of data documentation and its semantics, and data aggregation and formatting decisions as well as skills required specifically for successful data integration to advance ecological knowledge.

Presentations:

• ON DEMAND

  Beyond a collection of case studies: How interoperability can facilitate scientific generality in ecology
  

  Presenting Author: Jessica Gurevitch – Stony Brook University
• ON DEMAND

  Coding Club: Transferring quantitative skills among ecologists peer-to-peer
  

  Presenting Author: Gergana Daskalova – University of Edinburgh
• ON DEMAND

  Going public: The path from academia to public-facing data portals
  

  Presenting Author: Elizabeth Dobbins – University of Alaska Fairbanks Axiom Data Science
• ON DEMAND

  Integrating data in Map of Life for Species Population Essential Biodiversity Variable (EBV) development
  

  Presenting Author: Yanina V. Sica – Yale University
• ON DEMAND

  Let’s be FAIR: A community-driven reporting format for field measurements of soil respiration
  

  Presenting Author: Stephanie C. Pennington – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• ON DEMAND

  Matching metadata: A reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data that enhances interoperability
  

  Presenting Author: Kim S. Ely – Brookhaven National Laboratory
• ON DEMAND

  Semantic annotations and data integration in ecology
  

  Presenting Author: Anne E. Thessen – Oregon State University
• ON DEMAND

  The Nutrient Network's approach to interoperable data: Protocol and data standardization for coordinated distributed experiments
  

  Presenting Author: Peter A. Wilfahrt – University of Minnesota
• ON DEMAND

  Tidy NEON data for biodiversity research
  

  Presenting Author: Daijiang Li – Louisiana State University Louisiana State University