There is a growing need for faculty, students, and staff to address data challenges affecting all disciplines in the form of organization, infrastructure, and resources. In continued efforts to build library and researcher partnerships, capacity, and a culture of data management across campus, the University of Florida (UF) Libraries and UF Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences (IFAS) Wildlife Ecology and Conservation sponsored the 1st Annual Data Symposium Conference on Enabling Data Reproducibility and Sustainability at UF on March 19, 2018, from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. This event brought together faculty, librarians, researchers, students, and staff from across multiple disciplines to discuss, share, and strategize collaborative best practices to improve the aggregation, dissemination, and preservation of data for current and future use.

The purpose of this community is to collect and make accessible the presentations presented at the data symposium. This community will be used in education, outreach, and training on the benefits of building library/faculty collaborations, engaging diverse stakeholders, and promoting good data management practices.