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Subject: Call for Participation: Research Data Mgt Lifecycle Workshop,
 Princeton, July 18-20, 2011
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National Science Foundation Funded Workshop on "Research Data 
Lifecycle Management"
July 18 - July 20 2011 at
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

We are pleased to announce the NSF funded Workshop on "Research Data 
Lifecycle Management".

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers, 
campus Information Technology (IT) leaders, and library/archive 
specialists to discuss the topic of data lifecycle management 
specifically as it relates to computational science and engineering 
research data.  This discussion will result in a common understanding 
of best practices and funding models for selecting, storing, 
describing, and preserving these digital data. The workshop will also 
help to cultivate partnerships between these communities to foster 
continued developments in the preservation and sharing of research 
data.

We now seek applications for participation and submissions of 
position papers for the workshop.  In order to apply, please go to 
https://rcs.columbia.edu/rdlm and follow the links to register.  The 
deadline for applications is June 20, 2011, but we will review and 
accept applications on a rolling basis.

Important Dates
Paper submission and registration deadline: June 20,2011 (but 
accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis)
Hotel registration date: June 20, 2011
Workshop dates: July 18 - 20, 2011

Workshop Description

This workshop will bring together thought leaders on the topic of 
Research Data Lifecycle Management, including researchers, 
librarians, archivists, and IT professionals. Through the workshop 
program, attendees will be able to participate in the development of 
a data lifecycle management framework. By drawing together this 
diverse group of specialists, the workshop will be able to leverage 
the progress made to date by the digital curation, preservation and 
open repositories communities. The workshop will also promote the 
needed interaction, collaboration, and information sharing among 
diverse institutions and groups involved in High Performance 
Computing (HPC), research computing, IT, libraries, and archives. 
The goal is to develop a combination of policy and financial 
frameworks that ensures maintenance of important data over time 
scales longer than the career of any individual investigator.

On-site participation will be limited to a total of seventy-five 
leaders with balanced representation from the following areas: 
researchers who use computational resources to produce and access 
data sets; IT professionals involved in research computing support; 
and librarians/archivists who manage this type of data.  In addition, 
video-conferencing will be used to reach a much broader range of 
off-site participants.  We hope to engage a diverse population of 
researchers and professionals involved in research data lifecycle 
management to represent varying perspectives and differing 
institutions in the conversation.

We strongly encourage submission of position papers from people 
involved in the production, use, and management of data used in 
research computing.  The papers will help to gather input from a 
broad community to seed the conversations at the workshop.  The 
papers will also be used in the process to select individuals to 
participate on-site in the workshop.  Position papers should be no 
longer than 3 pages, and can be submitted as described on the 
registration website any time from now through June 20, 2011, 5 pm 
EDT.   Selection for participating on-site will be decided by a 
review panel on a rolling basis.  Applicants will be invited to 
participate on-site within two weeks of submitting their registration 
request.

This NSF funded workshop is a collaboration between the Coalition for 
Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) and the EDUCAUSE ACTI Campus 
Cyberinfrastructure Group, and will be hosted at Princeton University 
in Princeton, NJ, Monday, July 18 - Wednesday, July 20.  The workshop 
will include an informal reception at the Prospect House, Princeton 
University's faculty/staff club on Monday, July 18 at 6 pm.   It will 
also include a dinner at Rats, a restaurant on the Grounds for 
Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ on Tuesday, July 19 at 5:30 pm.

The findings of the workshop will be described in a report written by 
the organizing committee and an invited group of participants.  The 
report will be submitted to EDUCAUSE for publication and posted on 
the CASC website.

Please feel free to contact member of the organizing committee by 
email if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions.

Best Regards,

Organizing Committee

Curt Hillegas, Ph.D. - Chair
Director of Research Computing, Princeton University
curt@Princeton.EDU

Rajendra (Raj) Bose, Ph.D.
Manager, Research Computing Services, Columbia University
rbose@columbia.edu

Kerstin Lehnert, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia 
University
lehnert@ldeo.columbia.edu

Clifford Lynch, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information
Clifford@cni.org

Oren Sreebny
Senior Director Emerging Technologies and Communications, IT 
Services, University of Chicago
orens@uchicago.edu