Building a Data Management Network

As requirements for data management and sharing continue to grow from US funders, so does the need to scale and coordinate support services on University campuses. This lightning talk will describe our University's growth from building our data management "village" across various campus offices to the development of a new, more specific network - one of Data Managers themselves. We will describe how we are finding data managers who are embedded in labs, departments, and centers to join our network, as well as the outputs of the network, including a "Day of Data Clean Up", various meet and greets, and crowdsourced guides. We will also discuss future goals of the network and other benefits of having campus data managers a quick message away.