UC Davis Student Assembled Panel on Data Management Issues

Panel Members

(listed left to right)

  • Paul Gepts: UC Davis Professor of Plant Science: evolution of plants on domestication.

  • Mario Biagioli: Professor of Law in Science and Technology, Director of Science and Innovation, formerly Professor of History of Science at Harvard; written extensively on the role of secrecy in science.

  • John Kunze: Preservation Technologist and Ass. Director of California Digital Library.

  • Phoebe Ayers: UC Davis Librarian, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

  • James Carey, Professor of Entomology and Program Director at National Institute on Aging.

  • David McGee: UC Davis Executive Director of Innovation Access, Technology Transfer.  Previous co-founder of two biotechs, Ph.D. in Mol. Genetics.

I’d like to highlight that this panel was assembled and moderated by graduate students, where it was featured as part of the campus-wide graduate student research symposium. The changing requirements have a much more apparent impact on faculty writing grants and charged with the overall management of a project than they do on students. Yet here are the students bringing together librarians, digital data archiving specialists, technology transfer directors, and professors of law, and the faculty that have been at the forefront of these issues – to talk about the issues in such a community forum.

Nearly every discussion of these issues have raised the need to address social and cultural challenges to data sharing (e.g. (Reichman et. al. 2011), (Tenopir et. al. 2011)). Forums such of these offer an excellent chance to start addressing these issues head-on. I hope other universities will hold similar panels with their local experts to carry these discussions forward. This video recording is archived on uctv.

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