The US National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) will be holding its next meeting in Washington DC on August 29-30. Much of the meeting is open to the public and includes a wide range of updates on developments in data management and curation, and there is
a Forum on Global Scientific Data Infrastructure on the afternoon of the 29th.

You can find information on the overall meeting at

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_070714

and the details of the forum are at

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_070715

Please note that advance registration is required; details are on the pages above.

Disclosure: I am currently serving as Co-chair of BRDI.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI