[Esip-preserve] Draft of Data Management short course brochure

Mon Nov 18 18:42:27 EST 2013

Hi Nancy,

I think that in general you have all the right parts and pieces but after printing it out and folding it up I realized that the arrangement of all the parts and pieces is not optimal.  To be exact, I think that the Other Training sources page should not be what folks see when they open the cover of the tri-fold.  That needs to be advertisement for the ESIP materials, not advertising for somebody else's materials.  I suggest switching the list of courses with that section - I think folks should only see the non-ESIP materials list when they open the tri-fold completely up. 

Second, while the data management problem is a general one, I really don't think that we should be claiming that we are providing training to scientists in all disciplines.  Somewhere obvious - like even on the front page - it should be made very clear that this training is Earth science centric….  Perhaps that means changing the title to include the words Earth Science…?

I do think that letting a designer figure out how to do the grouping of courses is the way to go.  I really don't like long lists that don't have some sort of organization or grouping.  They just make my eyes glaze over and make it hard to see what is really being offered…

Lastly,  the number of places that have good training materials is now large and getting larger, especially now that there are many groups with training for other disciplines.   The materials we have on that page vary from being very Earth science centric (DataOne, IEDA) to being very generic (DCC).  While these are the groups we've talked to or talked about as a group, I guess we have several choices for how to deal with the landscape as a whole.  What I think we should do is to group DataOne and IEDA under a heading like Selected Earth Science Training and the DCC under something like General Data Management Training  - the point being that we don't want folks to think that we aren't aware of the larger set of materials that is out there or to hand this to their favorite scientist friend who just so happens to be a chemist or something, without it being very clear that we are aiming this training to the Earth science community.

Ruth

On Nov 18, 2013, at 3:46 PM, "Nancy Hoebelheinrich" <njhoebel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your comments, Bob.  Another person has suggested that we change the list of courses from alphabetical by title to listed by category or section which I had thought of doing, but couldn’t quite figure out how to do and still fit on the page.  A professional designer might be able to accomplish that by more creative arranging, or perhaps by not listing all of the courses.   What would you think of that option in a larger font?
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> From: esip-preserve-bounces at lists.esipfed.org [mailto:esip-preserve-bounces at lists.esipfed.org] On Behalf Of Robert R. Downs
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> Hello Nancy,
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> The  draft looks good! My only suggestion would be to try to make the font a little larger for the list of courses. Perhaps this could be done by reducing the line spacing a bit so that the list will continue to fit in the same column.
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> Thanks,
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> Bob
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> Robert R. Downs, PhD
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> On 11/14/2013 10:52 AM, Nancy Hoebelheinrich wrote:
> Hello, all:
> As discussed in the last Data Stewardship committee meeting, we decided to go ahead and draft a version of a brochure for handout at AGU and other places on the Data Management for Scientists Short course in anticipation of having the proposal accepted by the Finance Committee.  So, I’ve come up with a first draft that we can both refine via email, hopefully, and then hand off to a professional designer.  See what you-all think, and send comments, questions to the list.  The draft is done in powerpoint although I’ve also included a PDF version of it.  Note that slide 1 is the outside view of a trifold and slide 2 is the inside view.  I’d love to get feedback by early next week.  Thanks!
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