BCO-DMO - the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office - manages and serves oceanographic data and related documentation, and provides researchers and others with the tools and systems necessary to work with marine ecosystem data.

If this sounds like a recipe for data management chaos:

"I will store all data on at least one, and possibly up to 50, hard drives in my lab. The directory structure will be custom, not self-explanatory, and in no way documented or described. Students working with the data will be encouraged to make their own copies and modify them as they please, in order to ensure that no one can ever figure out what the actual real raw data is. Backups will rarely, if ever, be done."

that's the point.

The University of Cambridge Library has developed some well-organised pages called Support for Managing Research Data.

The information is organised into four sections:

Anyone teaching or developing data management training might be interested in Frameworks for a Data Management Curriculum, a modular case-based approach for data management instruction. The framework was developed by the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the George C.

Many librarians are looking to re-invent their rolesand their profession in the era of Google. Accordingly, the launch of the Journal of eScience Librarianship is timely.

Digital Preservation Europe has tried to make the topic of digital preservation fun by creating cartoons around the issues.

The National Information Standards Organization and the National Federation for Advanced Information Services have issued a new Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part A: Business Policies and Practices (NISO RP-15

Librarians who want to engage with researchers around long-term data management often use interviews to gather information about the data the researchers hold.

According to Graham Pryor, editor of Managing Research Data,

How can we encourage researchers to share data?