Illinois Data Bank

Researcher Spotlight

Introducing CABBI Datasets

Leslie Stoecker serves as the Data Manager for the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI), a U.S. Department of Energy funded initiative, focused on developing sustainable bioenergy solutions. In her role, Leslie deposits datasets on behalf of CABBI researchers. Here, we feature her testimonial about using the Illinois Data Bank.

What do you see as the primary benefit to you of archiving your data in a repository? What influenced your decision to deposit your data in the Illinois Data Bank? Is there anything else you would like to share about the Research Data Service, Illinois Data Bank, or your research?

The Illinois Data Bank offers many benefits to CABBI! One of the best is that we can easily meet our funder's data availability requirements by making datasets available with a DOI. After students or postdocs finish their time with CABBI, their data are still easily findable and accessible to share with collaborators both within and outside the Center.

For many of the datasets that CABBI produces, there are not subject-specific repositories to submit the data to, so we use the Illinois Data Bank because it is easy to use and access. Also, the wonderful curators perform thorough reviews of our datasets to ensure they are well-documented and formatted for long-term storage and use in the absence of accepted standards for these types of datasets.

The RDS and the Data Bank have made it easy to make our data available long-term. Both are wonderful resources on campus that help researchers create the best datasets possible and to help science advance.