DataUp: Enabling data stewardship for researchers

Strasser, Carly

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Title

DataUp: Enabling data stewardship for researchers

Author(s)

Strasser, Carly

Issue Date

2013-02

Keyword(s)

• data management
• research data
• Excel
• services
• software tools
• digital curation and preservation
• information services
• knowledge management

Abstract

"Recognizing that most Earth, environmental, and ecological scientists use spreadsheets at some point in the life cycles of their data, the California Digital Library partnered with Microsoft Research Connections and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to create a tool for Microsoft ® Excel that would encourage and enable good data stewardship practices. The resulting DataUp tool facilitates documenting, managing, and archiving tabular scientific data. It comes in two forms, both open-source: an add-in for Excel and a web-based application. Both the add-in and the web application provide users with the ability to (1) Perform a ""best practices check"" to ensure data are well formatted and organized; (2) Create standardized metadata, or a description of the data, using a wizard-style template; (3) Retrieve a unique identifier for their dataset from their data repository, and (4) Post their datasets and associated metadata to the repository."

Publisher

iSchools

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42094

DOI

https://doi.org/10.9776/13300

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Copyright © 2013 is held by the authors. Copyright permissions, when appropriate, must be obtained directly from the authors.

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