Data Stewardship

Acknowledgments

A book is the labor of many people. I want to thank my acquisitions editor, Andrea Dierna, for helping me lay out what the book would cover, and then hounding me until I agreed to write it. I also want to thank Heather Scherer, who shepherded the manuscript through editing and production, and was endlessly patient. In addition, I would like to thank the copyeditor, Jodie Allen who made sure that everything was shipshape, grammatically correct, and consistent and the project manager, Punitha for her work.

This book had three reviewers: Danette McGilvray, Laura Sebastian-Coleman, and Dagna Gaythorpe. They were invaluable in ensuring that the topics “hung together,” made sense, and didn’t leave out anything important. These three ...