[ESIP-all] Invitation: NRC Symposium on the Value of Shared Access and Reuse of Publicly Funded Scientific Data, on December 1

[Graves, Sara]

All: 

 

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 symposium will be webcast, if you cannot attend in person, but we
hope to see you there!

 

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, 2:00-4:15 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
<mailto: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

 

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 <mailto: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
<mailto:puhlir at nas.edu>  or 202-334-1531. 

 

The Symposium will be webcast--see the Board website for details on
December 1.

 

 

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