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Feb 26 Symposium on Discovering Research
Data
The US National Research Council Board on Research Data and
Information (BRDI) will be holding a public symposium on the afternoon
of Feb 26, 2013 on Strategies for Discovering Research Data in
conjunction with the February 26-27 meeting of the Board.
I've reproduced the invitation to the symposium below. While the
symposium is free and open to the public, you do need to register in
advance to attend in person. The symposium will also be webcast.
For more information about the Board, and the upcoming meeting,
see www.nas.edu/brdi
DIsclosure: I am the current co-chair of the BRDI board.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Finding the
Needle in the Haystack:
A Public Symposium on
Strategies for Discovering Research Data Online
Organized by
the
Board on Research Data and Information
National Academy of Sciences
Auditorium
2100 C Street NW, Washington, DC
One of the problems recognized by
experts and casual data users alike has been the inability to find the
full array of research databases or factual compilations that are
needed to support any given query. As data continue to proliferate and
research becomes more data intensive, the discoverability of factual
references also grows in importance. For research funders and
policymakers, there is a need to better understand data productivity
and trends in science, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Yet the
deluge of information and the diversity of the datasets makes the task
for all users of data and facts that much more difficult.
Despite the proliferation of
models and solutions in various disciplines and sectors, there is a
recognized need for a pervasive infrastructure, standardization of
approaches, and the usual questions of who does what, where, and how?
This symposium therefore seeks to highlight some of these different
approaches, providing examples that are both broadly interdisciplinary
as well as discipline-specific to finding the right data at the right
place in the right time. Although we will not offer any common
solutions to this set of problems, we do hope to shed some light on
the underlying issues and provide an opportunity for experts working
in this area to interact, both among each other and with the
audience.
The co-chairs of the Board on
Research Data and Information, Clifford Lynch of the Coalition on
Networked Information, and Francine Berman of the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, will lead the symposium discussion, beginning
at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26. The event will continue for 2 1?2
hours in a mix of short presentations and discussion. The entire
proceedings will be recorded and an audio-tape will be archived on the
Board's website. The meeting will be followed by a reception outside
the main auditorium.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 from
3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
National Academy of Sciences
Auditorium
2100 C Street NW, Washington, DC
The Symposium will be webcast--see the Board
website for details on Tuesday, February 26, 2013.
Cheryl Williams Levey
Senior Program Associate
National Academy of Sciences
Board on Research Data and Information
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