Workshop Objectives

• Explain how and why "knowledge" differs from information, data, and wisdom.

• Discover what is needed to make data useful to users (scientists) studying Earth processes, i.e. information and knowledge from data.

• Discover practices that data centers employ to address knowledge management issues within the currently evolving technological and legal environment.

• Illustrate the process of translating data for environmental policy decision-making.

• Learn about current issues affecting practices in environmental data centers.

• Identify ways to support data centers and the environmental community's efforts to gain knowledge from data.

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