OpenData Management plans and long-term archives of citizen science project data: On March 6 Dr. Steven Crawford who leads NASA’s Open Science work will discuss these issues and more.

Keynote address by Dr. Andrea Grover, Associate Professor in Information Systems & Quantitative Analysis at the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Information Science & Technology.

What are the best practices for handling citizen science data sets? What practices help assure quality and appropriate downstream use? How do you best comply with new NASA data management plan requirements? What is open data? Learn from NASA and other experts how to tackle these and other data and metadata related questions.

Citizen science efforts are frequently used to groundtruth or analyze remotely collected data, with impressive results in fields as diverse as archeology to climatology. On the flip side, citizen scientists have amassed impressive data sets of observations. Panelists share how their work integrates citizen scientist-collected data and remotely sensed data to unlock new understanding and discovery.