The document summarizes a workshop on data collection and management that took place on July 23rd, 2015 in Canberra. The workshop consisted of two hours. In the first hour, there were five talks illustrating different components of data collection and management, followed by a question and answer panel. In the second hour, there was an interactive session to determine challenges and opportunities in data collection and management, followed by a collation of ideas and a short question and answer period. Key topics discussed included reasons for collecting data, standards for data collection, collecting data over time, and tracking data usage.

1. Presented at ACSA Conference, Canberra, 23rd July, 2015
Workshop
Co-chairs:
Piers Higgs, Luigi Ceccaroni, John la Salle
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2. DATA COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT
First hour
• Five talks to illustrate different components of data
collection and management
• Question and Answer panel with the speakers
Second hour
• Interactive session to determine the challenges and
opportunities in this space
• Collation of ideas, and a short Q&A

3. First hour
• Chris Sanderson – Why collect data?
• Anne Bowser – Standards for data collection
• Karen Player – collecting data over time
• Jaume Piera – tracking who uses your data
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4. Second Hour
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5. Challenges and Opportunities
Collect
“Determine the best way to get information from participants into
a usable data file.”
Preserve
“Plan to preserve data in the short term to minimise potential
losses, and in the long term so that project stakeholders and
others can access, interpret and use the data in the future.”
Integrate
“Combine citizen science project data with other sources of data
to enable new analyses and investigations.”
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6. Challenges and Opportunities
• What are the three challenges and three
opportunities that you see in the Collect, Preserve
and Integrate steps of the model?
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