[Rdap] Driving Innovation through Data in Agriculture (DIDAg) Workshop nominations

Erica Mehan Johns emj73 at cornell.edu
Tue Apr 17 13:06:00 EDT 2018


Greetings,



On behalf of the DIDAg Workshop Organizing Committee, we are soliciting nominations (including self-nominations) for librarians and researchers to participate in the upcoming workshop taking place on the dates of June 20th-22nd, 2018 at the National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD:  "Driving Innovation through Data in Agriculture (DIDAg) - data management and publication for researchers and information scientists"



DIDAg will bring together librarians, data managers, scientists, and economists to address the needs and challenges associated with managing and analyzing growing data resources to advance 21st century dairy agroecosystems and agricultural economics.  This workshop is part of the NIFA FACT initiative (https://nifa.usda.gov/announcement/nifa-introduces-new-vision-data-science-agriculture).  Both Agricultural and Data Librarians are invited, and they are also encouraged to nominate relevant researchers to attend DIDAg, particularly individuals co-located at the same institutions as nominating librarians.



Please send your nominations to Eli Moore eli.moore at ars.usda.gov<mailto:eli.moore at ars.usda.gov> with the following information:



-Name (it is fine to self-nominate)

-Institution the nominee is affiliated with

-Skills and experience the nominee can bring to the workshop

-Knowledge/skills/connections the nominee hopes to gain from the workshop



Workshop invitations and agenda details will follow soon.  Funding is available to support travel and lodging for selected nominees.  Thank you for your consideration, we look forward to reviewing nominations.



Sincerely,

DIDAg Organizing Committee


Erica M. Johns
Research Data & Environmental Sciences Librarian
Liaison to BEE, EEB, FSAD, NTRES
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3068-3143

Albert R. Mann Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: (607) 255-0158
Email: emj73 at cornell.edu<mailto:emj73 at cornell.edu>
Website: http://data.research.cornell.edu<http://data.research.cornell.edu/>

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