You're invited! MAGIRT's next informative webinar is just around the corner, on March 5th! Please see the announcement below, with full details, including a link to register. Once you register you will receive an email confirmation with a link to the actual webinar that will be activated the day of the event. Paige Andrew Chair, MAGIRT You have been invited to the event "Best Practices for Environmental Data Management" Best Practices for Environmental Data Management The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC) assembles, distributes, and provides data services for a comprehensive archive of terrestrial biogeochemistry and ecological dynamics data to facilitate research, education, and decision-making in support of NASA's Earth Science. Among the 12 data centers of NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), the ORNL DAAC is unique in the wide variety of data resources it’s managing. Its data holdings range from site-level field measurements, regional-scale airborne observations, to continental and global scale satellite remote sensing and modeling data products. To address the challenge of highly diverse data, the ORNL DAAC has been actively adopting community and international standards throughout its data management life-cycle and building best practices on preparing interoperable environmental data with increased usability, ready for visualization, and easier to manage and search, whose values can be preserved longer into the future. In this webinar, we will introduce fundamental best practices on how to choose the best format for your data, how to better structure data within files, how to define variables and units, how to develop data documentation so that others can find, understand, and use your data easily. We will also showcase advanced best practices on how to properly specify spatial and temporal characteristics of your data in standard ways so your data are ready and easy to be visualized in both 2-D and 3-D viewers (e.g. Google Earth). Finally, we will introduce guidelines on preparing standard metadata records to enable seamless integration of geospatial data into popular data catalogs and geoportals (e.g. ESRI Geoportal and geodata.gov). Yaxing Wei and Robert B. Cook Yaxing Wei is a Geospatial Information Scientist at the ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) in the Environmental Sciences Division. Since joining ORNL in 2008. Robert B. Cook is the Chief Scientist for the ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). The ORNL DAAC archives data produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Terrestrial Ecology Program. To know more, click https://ala.adobeconnect.com/e3c7upuiou8/event/speaker_info.html Event: Best Practices for Environmental Data Management When: Thursday 5 March 2015, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US and Canada) Audio Conference Details: To register now, please visit the following link: https://ala.adobeconnect.com/e3c7upuiou8/event/registration.html To know more about the event, please visit our website: https://ala.adobeconnect.com/e3c7upuiou8/event/event_info.html Thank you, Danielle Alderson* If you've never used Adobe Connect, get a quick overview: http://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect.html Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat and Adobe Connect are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.