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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,
FRANCE
2. Database Protection in Europe—Recent 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
Schröder, 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 “Small Science”
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 Schröder, 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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