Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:10:27 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [192.100.21.30] ([192.100.21.30] verified) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.5) with ESMTPS id 10968393 for cni-announce@cni.org; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:16:50 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:16:33 -0700 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: Summary of NRC Workshop on Large Scale Data Integration Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" On August 19-20, 2009, the US National Research Council hosted a workshop on Large Scale Data Integration in the Sciences. This workshop, chaired by Professor Michael Stonebraker of MIT, looked at barriers and opportunities in integrating and reusing scientific data sets, primarily from a computer science perspective; it connects to and enriches the discussions about data curation and reuse in a e-science/cyberinfrastructure setting but also brings in ideas from areas such as data integration in commercial and government applications. I was fortunate to be able to participate in this workshop and to serve as a member of the planning committee. The summary of the workshop is now available for free download from the National Academies Press site, at http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12916 The site will ask you to register before downloading the PDF file. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI