Data Workshops

Users Workshops Data Workshops are held on a periodic basis and cover a variety of topics from data access to metadata standards to data models for scientific datasets. See the Calendar of Events for the next scheduled data workshop.

Regional Workshops Listed by Date

NSF EarthCube Workshop
December 17-18 2012

EarthCube Unidate hosted this NSF workshop with the goal of helping shape the development of EarthCube and help in building an infrastructure that makes it easy to integrate and use data from disparate sources, allowing investigators to perceive linkages that today are obscured by incompatible formats or simple lack of knowledge that the data they need for their investigations indeed exist. The overarching goal was to work toward a scientific ecosystem in which "data friction" is reduced, and data transparency and ease-of-use are significantly increased.

Go to the EarthCube Workshop home page
Latin American Data Workshop
August 21, 2008 - August 23, 2008

Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas (IAG) Unidata, in conjunction with the Universidade de Sao Paulo's Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas (IAG) hosted a Latin American Data Workshop on August 21-23, 2008. The goals of the workshop were to foster scientific partnerships for exchanging knowledge and expertise among U.S. and Latin American educators and researchers; promote greater Latin American participation in free-and-open sharing of Earth System data; inform Latin American workshop participants of the wide variety of data available through the Abstract Data Distribution Environment (ADDE) and Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS) servers (TDS); and inform Latin American workshop participants of the suite of freely-available analysis and display applications available through Unidata.

Go to the Latin America Data Workshop home page
Using Data in the Classroom Workshop 2008
April 30, 2008 - May 3, 2008

Carleton College This AccessData workshop provided an opportunity for data representatives, software tool specialists, scientific researchers, curriculum developers, and educators to interact with one another in a variety of sessions, all working toward the common goal of facilitating the use of data in education.

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Community Standards for Unstructured Grids Workshop
October 15, 2006 - October 17, 2006

Unidata NOAA and the Unidata Program sponsored a workshop to develop Community Standards for Unstructured Grids on October 16-17, 2006 in Boulder, Colorado. The goal of the workshop was to agree upon a provisional profile (i.e. metadata standards) for unstructured grid data in netCDF based upon an evaluation of the existing candidate profiles.

Go to the Unstructured Grids Workshop home page
Marine Metadata Initiative Workshop: Advancing Domain Vocabularies
August 9, 2005 - August 11, 2005

Marine Metadata Initiative The Advancing Domain Vocabularies Workshop focused on data discovery, representation, and (tentatively) visualization engines. The outcome of this wroskhop was a key implementation of the MMI-sponsored research and development, and provided tools for scientists to use in searching for and working with data.

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DLESE Data Services Workshop
April 18, 2005 - April 20, 2005

DLESE Sponsored by DLESE Data Services, this workshop provided an opportunity for data providers, tool developers, scientists, curriculum developers, and educators to work closely with one another to further the effective use of data in education.

Go to the DLESE Data Services Workshop home page
Special LDM Training Session
February 3, 2005 - February 4, 2005

Unidata The Unidata Program Center scheduled a special, invitation-only LDM user-training session for the period of February 3 - 4, 2005. This session covered LDM site administration with a focus on IDD-Antarctic. Topics included LDM installation, configuration, tuning, and maintenance. Also covered was troubleshooting the LDM and its network connections.

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LEAD Kickoff Meeting
September 29, 2003 - September 30, 2003

LEAD The purpose of this meeting was to address the fundamental IT research challenges needed to create an integrated, scalable framework for the Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) project. The goal of LEAD is to create an integrated and scalable framework for identifying, accessing, preparing, assimilating, predicting, managing, analyzing, mining, and visualizing a broad array of meteorological data and model output, independent of format and physical location.

OPeNDAP/NVODS/DODS Technical Working Conference
March 19, 2003 - March 21, 2003

Unidata The OPeNDAP/NVODS/DODS Technical Working Conference targeted those either who were using the OPeNDAP Data Access Protocol (or DAP), developing software related to the DAP, or were potentially interested in making use of the DAP in their data system work. The workshop focused on specific technical issues related to the continuning evolution of the DAP.

Go to the OPeNDAP/NVODS/DODS Technical Working Conference home page

Questions About the Data Workshops?

Questions or comments about the data workshops can be sent to: support@unidata.ucar.edu