ScienceBase Updates
ScienceBase Updates are released quarterly and contain news, tips for releasing data in ScienceBase, and featured data releases.
ScienceBase Updates
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ScienceBase Updates - Fall 2024
Fall 2024 topics include news on authentication in ScienceBase, information on ROR IDs and citation management on ScienceBase landing pages, a tip on parsing XML metadata records, and a featured data release.
ScienceBase Updates - Summer 2024
Summer 2024 topics include information on licenses for USGS data releases, uploading files to ScienceBase from an S3 bucket, a tip on the ScienceBase public site, and featured data release on the USGS Geochron database.
ScienceBase Updates - Spring 2024
Spring 2024 topics include information on Digital Object Identifiers, file upload in ScienceBase, and a featured data release on natural and man-made landscape features and information summarized to the National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2.1 (NHDPlusV2).
ScienceBase Updates - Winter 2024
Winter 2024 topics include news on the Asset Identifier Service (AIS), an update on multi-factor authentication (MFA) in ScienceBase, a tip on using your "My Items" folder, and a featured data release on the wildland-urban interface in the United States.
ScienceBase Updates - Fall 2023
Fall 2023 topics include information on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in ScienceBase, an update on the State of the Data project, a tip on searching by location in ScienceBase, and a featured data release on wind turbines in the United States.
ScienceBase Updates - Summer 2023
Summer 2023 topics include information on AGOL publishing for GIS data in ScienceBase, upcoming changes in Multi-Factor Authentication in ScienceBase, and a featured data release on lake temperature predictions.
ScienceBase Updates - Spring 2023
Spring 2023 topics include information on the dynamic data release process in ScienceBase, making your data release more reusable, a tip on the ScienceBase training & resources SharePoint, and a featured data release on glaciers in Glacier National Park.
ScienceBase Updates - Winter 2023
Winter 2023 topics include news on the map service migration from ScienceBase ArcGIS server to ArcGIS Online (AGOL), making your data release more interoperable, a tip on the ScienceBase JSON model, and a featured data release on bathymetry and topography data from 14 surveys performed on the Elwha River delta between 2010 and 2017.
ScienceBase Updates - Fall 2022
Fall 2022 topics include news on the ScienceBase integration with Globus to support release of large USGS datasets, making your data release more accessible, a tip on connecting directly to a .csv or .txt file in ScienceBase, and a featured data release on monitoring trends in burn severity.
ScienceBase Updates - Summer 2022
Summer 2022 topics include information on model application data releases, making your data release more findable, a tip on the quarterly ScienceBase trainings, and a featured data release on present-day and future sea-level rise scenarios.
ScienceBase Updates - Spring 2022
Spring 2022 topics include information on our migration from Confluence to SharePoint, making sure your metadata record gets into the SDC, a tip on non-ASCII characters, and a featured data release on a novel interaction between intraguild predators.
ScienceBase Updates - Winter 2022
Winter 2022 topics include information on section 508 and data release, open data policies, a tip on the ScienceBase Cloud Upload, and a featured data release on landsat burned area products for the U.S.
ScienceBase Updates - Fall 2021
Fall 2021 topics include information on ScienceBase Cloud Upload, SBDR Tool retry service and dashboard, a tip on rearranging your contacts, and a featured data release on rainfall totals resulting from Hurricane Harvey.
ScienceBase Updates - Spring 2021
Spring 2021 topics include information on the new ScienceBase data release summary dashboard, guidance for what to include (and not include) in a data release, a tip on creating shortcuts, and a featured data release on the State Geologic Map Compilation.
ScienceBase Updates - Winter 2021
Winter 2021 topics include information on center names in ScienceBase, revision guidance updates, cleaning data with OpenRefine, a tip on file order in ScienceBase, and a featured data release on global distribution of critical minerals.
ScienceBase Updates - Fall 2020
Fall 2020 topics include information on the updated ScienceBase homepage, AWS S3 Publishing, persistent identifiers in metadata, a tip on propagating metadata to your landing page, and a featured data release on riparian vegetation along the Colorado River.
ScienceBase Updates - Summer 2020
Summer 2020 topics include information on linking publications and data, data manager resources, including scripts, a new autofill in IPDS feature in the ScienceBase Data Release Tool, standardizing publication dates, a tip on editing your display name in the ScienceBase directory, and a featured data release on landslides triggered by an earthquake.
ScienceBase Updates - Spring 2019
Spring 2019 topics include information on using ORCIDs at USGS, anonymous access links in ScienceBase, custom workflows in the SBDR Tool, and a tip on standardizing child items.
ScienceBase Updates - Spring 2018
Spring 2018 topics include information on ScienceBase vocabulary services, streamlining the data release process, and a tip on the My Items folder.
ScienceBase Updates - Winter 2017
Winter 2017 topics include information on displaying information in the ScienceBase preview map, metrics tracking for items in ScienceBase, and a brief on digital object identifiers and ORCIDs.
ScienceBase Updates - Fall 2016
Fall 2016 topics include information on data releases by the numbers, calculating and storing checksums in ScienceBase, relating items in ScienceBase, and a tip on using the External Related Resouces section of a landing page.
ScienceBase Updates - Summer 2016
Summer 2016 topics include information on the ScienceBase User Agreement, transforming FGDC Metadata to ISO, helping science centers release data, and a tip on ScienceBase as a platform for data release.
ScienceBase Updates - Winter 2016
Winter 2016 topics include information on redesigned ScienceBase landing pages, data release requirements, a new capability to upload and download large files, and a tip on parsing metadata records to a landing page.