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National Research Council Symposium on Data Access
& Reuse
I wanted to share this symposium announcement with the CNI
community. This is a topic of intense interest, and they've prepared
an excellent panel. Note that they also intend to webcast the
event.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Dear Colleague,
You are cordially invited to
attend a public symposium on The Value of Shared Access and Reuse
of Publicly
Funded Scientific Data.
The event is being organized by the National Research Council's Board
on Research
Data and Information,
and will be held on the afternoon of December 1 in
Washington, DC. A formal invitation
with the summary description of
the symposium, the location, and RSVP instructions may be found
below.
Please feel free to
forward this invitation to others who you think may be
interested. More complete information
The symposium will be webcast, if
you cannot attend in person, but we hope to see you
there!
Best wishes,
Paul
Uhlir
Director, Board on Research Data
and Information
INVITATION
The Value of Shared Access and ReUse of Publicly Funded Scientific
Data
A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Organized by the
Board on Research Data and Information
20 F Street Conference Center
Conference Room B, 20 F Street, NW, Washington,
DC
This symposium
will examine some of the research, economic, and social benefits
that can be derived from providing online access to publicly-funded
scientific data, as well as how such benefits can be evaluated. The
event will include presentations on the scientific data sharing and
reuse policies of the federal government; compelling examples of the
value of free online access and unfettered reuse of data; methods of
assessing the value and effects of shared access and reuse on
research, the economy, and society; and prepared comments by Board
members. The symposium is open to the public, but advance registration
is requested (contact: Cheryl Levey, clevey@nas.edu or call 202-334-1531).
Moderator:
Michael Lesk,
Rutgers University and Board Chair
Speakers:
Interagency
Working Group on Digital Data, OSTP (invited)
Rod Atkinson
and Jan Johansson, Congressional Research Service
Neil S.
Buckholtz, National Institute on Aging, NIH
Carl Shapiro,
U.S. Geological Survey
Heather
Joseph, SPARC
Michael Carroll, Washington School of Law, American
University
Paul David,
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford
University
Panel
discussion of invited speakers and Board members
and
General
discussion with the audience
20F Street
Conference Center
Conference
Room B, 20 F Street NW, Washington, DC
Wednesday,
December 1, 2010, 2:00-4:15 p.m.
The symposium is free and open to the public, but advance registration
is requested because of space limitations.
RSVP to Cheryl Levey at clevey@nas.edu.
For additional information
about the program, please visit
The
Symposium will be webcast--see the Board website for details on
December 1.
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