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From: Peter Suber
Date: Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:58 PM
Subject: [SOAF] Invitation: NRC Symposium on the Value of Shared Access and
Reuse of Publicly Funded Scientific Data, on December 1
To: SPARC Open Access Forum <SPARC-OAForum_at_arl.org>
[Forwarding from Paul Uhlir, Director, Board on Research Data and Information at
National Academy of Sciences. --Peter Suber.]
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 about the event and the Board on Research
Data and Information is at:
http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi.
The audio proceedings of the symposium will be archived, if you cannot attend in
person, but unfortunately not live at the time of the meeting
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
National Research Council
(
http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi)
Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 2:00-4:20 p.m.
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_at_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
Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton, UK
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_at_nas.edu.
For additional information about the program, please visit
http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi
or contact Paul Uhlir, the Board Director, at puhlir_at_nas.edu or 202-334-1531.
The Symposium will be webcast--see the Board website for details on December 1.
Received on Thu Nov 18 2010 - 01:10:22 GMT