Dear Colleagues Registration is now open for the final event in the inaugural DataONE Webinar Series (www.dataone.org/webinars), focused on open science, the role of the data lifecycle, and achieving innovative science through shared data and ground-breaking tools. This webinar will be held on Tuesday May 12th at 12 noon Eastern time/9 AM Pacific.
Our webinar will be a panel presentation by *Bertram Ludäscher, Lauren Walker, and Chris Jones *from DataONE. The webinar is focused on the importance of Data Provenance and is titled: *"**Provenance and DataONE: Facilitating Reproducible Science"*. The abstract for the talk is detailed below and you may register at: www.dataone.org/upcoming-webinar. Please circulate widely in your communities; registration is free. *Abstract* Provenance is a form of metadata that describes the lineage and processing history of data and knowledge artifacts and plays an important role in many scientific applications and use cases. For example, an ecologist might want to combine different datasets for a study, but needs to know how the candidate datasets were derived. A climate scientist might need to document the processing history of climate model outputs to facilitate reproducibility. A natural history collection manager might want to run automated data curation tools on specimen collection data, but has to understand the proposed “repairs” before executing them. In all these and many other cases like these, provenance information plays a crucial role. In this webinar, we will first give an overview of the different types of provenance information and how they can be used, e.g., to facilitate reproducible science. We then show how a DataONE user can search and navigate provenance information using the new UI currently under development in DataONE. After this user-oriented view on provenance, we finally take a look “behind the scenes” of the DataONE provenance technologies and present plans for future developments. Webinars will be recorded and made available for viewing later the same day online. A Q&A forum will also be available to attendees and later viewers alike. We welcome you to join us for this and future webinars in the series. More information on the DataONE WebinarSeries can be found at: www.dataone.org/ webinars and we welcome suggestions for speakers and topics. -- Yiwei Wang
