The Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) at the National Academies is presenting a Symposium  on Scientific Knowledge Discovery  in Open Network Envrionments in Washington DC on March 10, 2011. You can find the agenda and other background materials at

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_060422

This promises to be an extremely interesting day, and there are some wonderful speakers (full disclosure: I'm thrilled to be part of one of the afternoon panels). The Symposium is free and open to the public, but advanced registration is requested.

Clifford  Lynch
Director, CNI