This document describes SEAD, a set of lightweight data services to help sustainability researchers manage, share, and preserve their data. SEAD offers a secure project space to work privately with data, services to publish data and get DOIs to ensure the longevity of data, and tools to connect researchers and help them get credit for their work including profiles, networking visualizations, and metrics of research impact. It also provides data discovery resources to find relevant published data through faceted search and geospatial tools to view and interact with location-based data on maps.

1. SEAD: Lightweight Data Services for Sustainability Research
Dharma Akmon1, James Myers1, Margaret L. Hedstrom1, Praveen Kumar2, Beth Plale3
1University of Michigan, 2University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 3Indiana University
SECURE PROJECT SPACE
DATA PUBLICATION SERVICES
RESEARCH NETWORK TOOLS SCHOLARLY CREDIT MECHANISMS
A place for your team to work privately with data
• Upload virtually any data type
• Annotate, describe, and comment on data
• Automatically extract metadata from data
• Preview your data in the web interface
• Add who you want to your space & assign
roles
• See usage statistics
• Create collections of datasets
• Connect derived data to their source
• Add copyright licensing information
To ensure the longevity of your data
To connect you to other researchers To help you get credit for your work
• Publish data from your project space
• Get DOIs for your published data collections
• Deposit your data in an appropriate
repository
• Make data more findable by registering the
metadata with discovery services, such as
DataONE
• Browse SEAD’s database of sustainability
scientists
• Create a profile that is linked to your data,
publications, & conferences
• Visualize connections between researchers
• View temporal graphs of your research output
DATA DISCOVERY RESOURCES
To find data and help others find your data
• Set up a discovery interface that is branded
with your project’s or organization’s identity
• Take advantage of faceted search tools to find
published SEAD data
• Easily navigate to the published data held
with our repository partners
• Use the DOI that accompanies each
published dataset to point others to the data
GEOSPATIALLY-ORIENTED DATA TOOLS
• Add location information to any dataset
• View a map with pins that represent data with
location information
• Automatically get a map view of data that
contain geospatial information
• From the map, turn layers on or off & adjust
their opacity
To see data according to their location
SEAD is funded by the National Science Foundation
under cooperative agreement #OCI0940824
Equipped to help you manage, share, & preserve your aquatics data
• Encourage others to cite your data with
digital IDs that uniquely link to the data
• Use temporal graphs of your research output
to demonstrate your productivity
• Create a profile that highlights your
accomplishments & areas of expertise
www.sead-data.net
Twitter: @SEADdatanet
Seeking...
...individuals and groups working on sustainability research to
become early adopters of SEAD. Take an active role in sharing
and improving what we have to offer by contacting us:
SEADdatanet@umich.edu