Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:09:59 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [192.100.21.10] ([192.100.21.10] verified) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.8) with ESMTPS id 35699195 for cni-announce@cni.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:45:46 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:47:18 -0700 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: Three interesting publications Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="============_-1021905628==_ma============" --============_-1021905628==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I want to bring three recent publications of=20 potential interest to the attention of=20 CNI-announce readers. The first is a document=20 issued by the President's Council of Advisors on=20 Science and Technology (PCAST) in August 2007=20 titled "Leadership Under Challenge: Information=20 Technology R&D in a Competitive World", which is=20 a look at the Federal networking and Information=20 Technology R&D Program in a broad context. It=20 includes PCAST's reccomendations for furding=20 priorities in networking and information=20 technology research and development. You can find=20 this report online at http://www.nitrd.gov The second is a special issue of the CODATA Data=20 Sciences Journal edited by Paul Uhlir of the U.S.=20 National Academies dealing with open data issues.=20 Here's the summary of the issue that Paul sent=20 out: This special volume of the CODATA Data Science Journal, available at: http://dsj.codataweb.org/special-open-data.html, examines several govern- mental data policy initiatives, as well as various data policy issues and developments. Part One provides overviews of four significant recent data policies at the intergovernmental and national levels: 1. OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public =46unding Dirk Pilat, OECD, and Yukiko Fukasaku, Innovmond, FRANCE 2. Database Protection in Europe=97Recent Developments and a Modest Proposal Robert Clark, School of Law, University College Dublin, IRELAND 3. Open Access to Scientific Data: Promoting Science and Innovation Guan-Hua Xu, Ministry of Science and Technology, CHINA 4. Canadian National Consultation on Access to Scientific Research Data Michel Sabourin, University of Montreal, and Bernard Dumouchel, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, National Research Council, CANADA The articles in Part Two present different data policy issues and developments: 5. Open Data for Global Science Paul F. Uhlir, National Research Council, USA, and Peter Schr=F6der, Data Archiving and Networked Services, THE NETHERLANDS 6. Biomedical Data Sharing, Security and Standards Belinda Seto and James Luo, National Institutes of Health, USA 7. Big Opportunities in Access to =93Small Science=94 Data Harlan Onsrud and James Campbell, University of Maine, USA 8. Possible Downsides to Data Sharing in the Research Commons: Assets and Liabilities, Opportunities and Risks Peter Schr=F6der, Data Archiving and Networked Services, THE NETHERLANDS =46inally, while I don't normally mention=20 individual issues of D-Lib, the most recent issue=20 (September/October 2007) contains a series of=20 studies of institutional repository deployment in=20 the United States (including work that updates a=20 study that Joan Lippincott and I published in=20 D-Lib several years ago), as well as some very=20 helpful material on institutional implications of=20 e-science. Both of these will be of interest to=20 many CNI-announce readers, I think. You can find=20 the latest issue at: http://www.dlib.org Clifford Lynch Director, CNI --============_-1021905628==_ma============ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Three interesting publications
I want to bring three recent publications of potential interest to the attention of CNI-announce readers. The first is a document issued by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in August 2007 titled "Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in a Competitive World",  which is a look at the Federal networking and Information Technology R&D Program in a broad context. It includes PCAST's reccomendations for furding priorities in networking and information technology research and development. You can find this report online at

http://www.nitrd.gov


The second is a special issue of the CODATA Data Sciences Journal edited by Paul Uhlir of the U.S. National Academies dealing with open data issues. Here's the summary of the issue that Paul sent out:

This special volume of the CODATA Data Science Journal, available at:
http://dsj.codataweb.org/special-open-data.html, examines several govern-
mental data policy initiatives, as well as various data policy issues and
developments. Part One provides overviews of four significant recent data
policies at the intergovernmental and national levels:

1. OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public
Funding
Dirk Pilat, OECD, and Yukiko Fukasaku, Innovmond, =46RANCE

2. Database Protection in Europe=97Recent Developments and a Modest Proposal
Robert Clark, School of Law, University College Dublin, IRELAND

3. Open Access to Scientific Data: Promoting Science and Innovation
Guan-Hua Xu, Ministry of Science and Technology, CHINA

4. Canadian National Consultation on Access to Scientific Research Data
Michel Sabourin, University of Montreal, and Bernard Dumouchel, Canada
Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, National Research
Council, CANADA

The articles in Part Two present different data policy issues and
developments:

5. Open Data for Global Science
Paul F. Uhlir, National Research Council, USA, and Peter Schr=F6der, Data
Archiving and Networked Services, THE NETHERLANDS

6. Biomedical Data Sharing, Security and Standards
Belinda Seto and James Luo, National Institutes of Health, USA

7. Big Opportunities in Access to =93Small Science=94 Data
Harlan Onsrud and James Campbell, University of Maine, USA

8. Possible Downsides to Data Sharing in the Research Commons:
Assets and Liabilities, Opportunities and Risks
Peter Schr=F6der, Data Archiving and Networked Services, THE NETHERLANDS


Finally, while I don't normally mention individual issues of D-Lib, the most recent issue (September/October 2007) contains a series of studies of institutional repository deployment in the United States (including work that updates a study that Joan Lippincott and I published in D-Lib several years ago), as well as some very helpful material on institutional implications of e-science. Both of these will be of interest to many CNI-announce readers, I think. You can find the latest issue at:

http://www.dlib.org


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI



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