This seminar series is designed to provide societies and their journals with information and resources to help their communities be more knowledgeable and prepared to share data (and software) in a way that is relevant and meaningful for each discipline.  This is a 12-month series.

The series is developed and supported by the following society and federation collaborators:

• AAAS/Science
• American Astronomical Society (AAS)
• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU) 
• American Meteorological Society (AMS), Board on Data Stewardship 
• British Ecological Society
• Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP)
• Ecological Society of America
• Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology (FASEB)
• Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS)
• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)