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 Board on International Scientific Organizations
and the
U.S. Committee on Data for Science and Technology
Board on Research Data and Information
National Academy of Sciences
in consultation with the
Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the conduct of Science
International Council for Science
Room 100
National Academy of Sciences
500 Fifth Street NW
Washington, DC
18-19 April 2011 | SYMPOSIUM BACKGROUND | View the statement of task and background of the international symposium. STATEMENT OF TASK |
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Monday, 18 April
Session One: Setting the Stage
Session Chair: Farouk El-Baz, Boston University | 8:45 | Welcoming remarks | Charles Vest,
President, National Academy of Engineering | | 9:00 | Background and purpose of the Symposium
A historical perspective | Farouk El-Baz,
Symposium Co-Chair | | 9:20 | Keynote presentation: Why is international scientific data sharing important?
(presentation) | Atta-ur-Rahman,
UNESCO Science
Laureate | | 10:00 | Coffee break | |
Session Two: Status of Access to Scientific Data
Session Chair: Roberta Balstad, Columbia University
| 10:30 | Overview of Scientific Data Policies
(presentation)
| Roberta Balstad,
Columbia University |
10:45
| Examples of scientific data sharing policies in developing countries - Implementing a research data access
policy in South Africa (presentation) |
Michael Kahn,
CREST, University of Stellenbosch, SA
| | 11:05 | - Developing a research data access policy
in Chile (presentation) | Patricia Muñoz,
CONICYT, Chile | | 11:25 | - Need for a national scientific data policy in
Tanzania (presentation) | Leonard Mboera and
Benjamin Mayala,
National Institute for
Medical Research, Tanzania | | 11:45 | The data sharing policy of the World
Meteorological Organization
(presentation) | Jack Hayes,
Permanent U.S. Representative to the WMO | | 12:05 | Moderated Panel Discussion | (all morning speakers)
Moderator: Farouk El-Baz, Boston University | | 12:30 | Lunch | |
Session Three: Compelling Benefits
Session Chair: Barbara Andrews, University of Chile| 13:45 | Examples of past successes
| | | | - Developing the rice genome in China
(presentation) | Huanming Yang,
Beijing Genomics Institute,
China | | | - Virtual astronomy (presentation)
| Zeljko Ivezic,
University of Washington | | | - Sharing engineering data for failure analysis
in airplane crashes (presentation) | Dan Cheney,
Federal Aviation Administration | | 14:45 | Break
| | | 15:15 | Examples where more data sharing could make a big difference | | | | - Improving disaster response (presentation) | Jane Rovins,
ICSU, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, China | | | - Understanding biodiversity (presentation) | Vanderlei Canhos,
Reference Center on Environmental Information, Brazil | | | - Social Statistics as One of the Instruments of
Strategic Management of Sustainable
Development Processes: Compelling
Examples (presentation) | Victoria Bakhtina,
International Finance Corporation | | | - Remote sensing and in situ measurements in the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (presentation) | Curtis Woodcock,
Boston University | | 16:45 | Moderated Panel Discussion | (all 8 speakers)
| | 17:30 | Adjourn | |
Tuesday, 19 AprilSession Four: The Limits and Barriers to Data Sharing
Session Chair: Roger Pfister, Swiss Academy of Sciences, and ICSU/CFRS | 8:45 | Introduction (presentation)
| | | 9:00 | Consideration of barriers to data sharing
(presentation) | Elaine Collier,
National Center for Research Resources, NIH | | | Artificial barriers to data sharing | | 9:20
| - Technical aspects (presentation) | Donald Riley,
University of Maryland | 9:40
| - Scientific management and cultural aspects
(presentation) | David Carlson,
University of Colorado | | 10:00 | - Political and institutional aspects
(presentation) | Tilahun Yilma,
UC, Davis | | 10:20 | Moderated Panel Discussion on Overcoming the Barriers | (all 4 speakers)
Moderator: Roger Pfister,
Swiss Academy of Sciences, and ICSU/CFRS | | 11:00 | Break | |
Session Five: How to Improve Data Access and Use
Session Chair: John Rumble, Information International Associates
[Perspectives of different stakeholder groups on the rights and
responsibilities of scientists and research organizations with regard to
providing and getting access to publicly funded scientific data.] | 11:20 | Government science policy makers and research funders (presentation) | Gretchen Kalonji,
UNESCO | | 11:40 | International scientific organizations | Bengt Gustafsson,
CFRS/ICSU | | 12:00 | Professional societies and researchers
(presentation) | Daniel Schaffer,
TWAS | | 12:20 | Lunch | | | 13:30 | Industry (presentation) | John Rumble,
IIA | | 13:50 | Universities (presentation) | Hilary Inyang,
African Continental University System Initiative | | 14:10 | Data centers (presentation) | Yasuhiro Murayama,
World Data System/NICT, Japan | | 14:30 | Libraries (presentation) | Stephen Griffin,
National Science Foundation | | 14:50 | Young scientists (presentation) | Haswira Nor Mohamad Hashim,
Malaysia, and Queensland University of Technology, Australia | | 15:10 | Moderated Panel Discussion: rights and responsibilities of scientists on
data access and use | (all 8 speakers)
| | 15:55 | Concluding observations | Bengt Gustafsson,
CFRS/ICSU | | 16:00 | End of Meeting | |
Funding for this symposium was provided by the National Science Foundation through Grants # OISE-0614728 and OCI-1040898.
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