SEN January News: Photos from around SEN, Citing Software, and Data Management Plans

• Share photos of your experiments
• Workshop Report Posted
• Town Hall Summary
• Overview Presentation about SEN on February 3
• Data Management Plans
• Making your Code Citable

Share photos of your experiments

It's fun to see experiments from different labs. If you share an experimental photo with us via Twitter @sedimentexp or email sedimentexp@gmail.com, we'll share it with the SEN community on our Twitter feed!
You can see recent photos here.

Workshop Report Posted

We've posted the workshop report for SEN Going Dutch: Exploring the Life Cycle of Sedimentary Experiments. At the workshop, we collected data in a community experiment, listened to keynote talks, and initiated working groups for our three project components of SEN Knowledge Base, SEN Education & Standards, and SEN Experimental Collaboratories.
You can access the workshop report from this blog post.

Town Hall Summary

In December we held a gathering at the AGU Fall Meeting so that investigators could voice their challenges and concerns about publishing and sharing data.
You can access the Town Hall Summary from this blog post.

Overview Presentation about SEN on February 3

SEN will give a presentation summarizing our activities and connections within EarthCube on Tuesday, February 3rd, in the EarthCube C4P Webinar Series. The webinar is from 3-4p EST and there will be two presentations, both from EarthCube Research Coordination Networks.

Matty Mookerjee (Sonoma State) will present on EC3: Earth Centered Communication for Cyberinfrastructure - Challenges of Field Data Collection, Management, and Integration, and Leslie Hsu (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) will present on SEN: Building a Sediment Experimentalist Network.
More information here.

Data Management Plans

Have you recently submitted a data management plan for a proposal on sediment experiments? Are you still wondering what constitutes a successful plan? One of our most common requests is to see example data management plans for experimental investigations. We'd like to collect a few more plans to annotate before posting a SEN Data Management Plan FAQ. If you are willing to share your plan as an example, or have specific questions about data management plans, send them our way at sedimentexp@gmail.com.

Making your code citable

SEN is at a software and data citation workshop this week, learning lots of new things. Want to make your code citable so that others can give you credit for your work? It's possible using GitHub: https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/