Data providers have a newly designed section on the ORNL DAAC website. The ORNL DAAC team has reworked the data provider information pages on the website to create a well-defined path through the data management process-- from planning to creation to active archiving.
The new web pages explain the practical steps to be taken by providers and ORNL DAAC staff to efficiently manage your data to prepare them for successful archiving and sharing. Building on the DAAC Best Practices for preparing environmental data sets, these steps guide beginning and experienced data providers through practical methods to share and archive your data.
Please look through the new data management pages-- Overview, Plan, Manage, Archive, and DAAC Curation. If you have questions and would like to discuss archiving your data set at the ORNL DAAC, contact the User Services Office. Of particular note is a section on preparing a Data Management Plan as required for some funding agencies including NASA and NSF.
The ORNL DAAC is a NASA-funded data center archiving and distributing terrestrial ecology and biogeochemical dynamics data.