3^rd China- U.S. Roundtable on Scientific Data Cooperation

• Guo Huadong, National Delegate, Chinese National Committee for CODATA
• Roberta Balstad,Vice-Chair, Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) and U.S. National Committee for CODATA, US National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

• Ding Zhongli, Vice President, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), President, Chinese National Committee for CODATA
• Wang Xiulin, Deputy Mayor, Qingdao Municipal Government  

• Health for All 2020
  Liu Depei, Vice President, Chinese Academy of Engineering, President, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
   
• Data Sharing: Patient Care and Research Data
  Belinda Seto, Deputy Director, National Institute of Bio Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
   
• Earth Observation for Natural Disaster Mitigation and Data Sharing
  Guo Huadong, Director, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, CAS, Executive Committee Member of CODATA, National Delegate of Chinese National Committee for CODATA

• Guo Huadong, Director, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, CAS, Executive Committee Member of CODATA, National Delegate of Chinese National Committee for CODATA
• Paul Uhlir, Director, BRDI, NAS

• Data Sharing: Benefits and Barriers
  Roberta Balstad, Vice-Chair, BRDI and U.S. CODATA, NAS; Co-Director, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University
   
• Overcoming Barriers to Scientific Data Sharing
  Harlan Onsrud, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of Maine
   
• Scientific Research Data Archiving in Resources and Environment fields of National Basic Research Program in China
  Fu XiaoFeng, Director, Division of General Affairs and Basic Research, Department of Basic Research, Ministry of Science and Technology of China
   
• A Proposal for Setting up a JointGroup on China-US Scientific Data Sharing Policy Research
  Li Jianhui, Director, Scientific Data Centre, Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), CAS, Secretary-General, Chinese National Committee for CODATA

Breakout Session A: Health and Biomedical Data Cooperation Time: 13:15-17:30 (continuous agenda starts at 13:15 on Day 1 and concludes at 15:45 on Day 2) Location: Conference Room 225 on the 2nd floor of Conference Center   Co-chairs:   Belinda Seto Liu Depei Executives: Yin Ling, James Luo Rapporteurs: Lucie Yang, Niu Jiayue   13:15-13:25  Chinese Official’s Salutatory Xu Wansheng, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic of China   13:25-15:30    Gene Database and Disease Proteome Database 1)      Chinese representative 2)      US representative   15:30-15:50  Tea Break   15:50-17:30    Gene Database and Disease Proteome Database Discussion

Breakout Session B: Advanced Cyber-infrastructure Data Application Cooperation Time: 13:15-17:30 Location: Conference Room 219 on the 2nd floor of Conference Center   Co-Chairs: Huang Xiangyang, Director, Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), CAS; Vice President, Chinese National Committee for CODATA Harlan Onsrud, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of Maine   Rapporteurs: Wang Shaowen, Chair Professor, CNIC, CAS, Senior Research Scientist of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Subhash Kuvelker, Senior Program Officer, BRDI and U.S. CODATA, NAS 13:15-15:30    Invited Speeches Invited US Speakers: Jim Myers, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Frank Williams, Director, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC), University of Alaska Fairbanks Invited Chinese Speakers:  Wang Shaowen, Chair professor, Computer Network Information Center (CNIC), CAS; Researcher, National Center of Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cao Junwei, Assistant Director, Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University Chi Xuebin, Professor, Director, Supercomputing Center, CNIC, CAS Wu Kaichao, Associate Researcher, Vice Director, Scientific Data Center, CNIC, CAS 15:30-15:50  Tea Break   15:50-17:20    Roundtable Discussion   17:20-17:30    Concluding Remarks by Breakout Session Co-Chairs

Breakout Session A: Health and Biomedical Data Cooperation[continued] Time: 08:30 -12:00; 13:15- 15:45 (continuous agenda starts at 13:15 on Day 1 and concludes at 15:45 on Day 2) Location: Conference Room 225 on the 2nd floor of Conference Center   08:30-10:20    U.S.-China Bilateral Cancer Biomedical Imaging and Pathology Database (BIPD) Network cooperation Chinese representative US representative Discussion   10:20-10:40    Coffee Break   10:40-12:00    U.S.-China bilateral neuroinformatics cooperation Chinese representative: Gong Li and Xiaowei Tang US representative Discussion 12:00-13:15    Lunch 13:15-15:45    Action Plan Data standard and criteria and resources construction) Database Technology platform construction and services Announce Cooperative Agreement

Breakout Session C: Environmental and Geospatial Data Cooperation Time: 08:30 -12:00; 13:15- 15:45 Location: Conference Room 219 on the 2nd floor of Conference Center (Attended also by the Advanced Cyber-infrastructure Data Application participants)   Co-Chairs: Guo Huadong, Director, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, CAS, Executive Committee Member of CODATA, National Delegate of Chinese National Committee for CODATA Paul Richards, Mellon Professor of the Natural Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University Rapporteurs: Li Guoqing, Professor, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, CAS Paul Francis Uhlir, Director, Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI), NAS  Breakout topics include report and discussion on the status of ongoing data cooperation projects and presentations of new topics and proposals on data cooperation   C1) Remote sensing data and geospatial data Participants: E. Lynn Usery, Research Physical Scientist, Research Geographer and Director, Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science, U.S. Geological Survey Harlan Onsrud, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of Maine Liu Jianbo, Deputy Director, Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, CAS - Remote sensing satellite data in China Liu Chuang, Professor, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS and Director of World Resources Research, College of Natural Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University - Data Mining and Analysis System for MDG Assessment - A Case Study in Great Mekong Subregion Roundtable Discussion – All participants 10:20 -10:40   Coffee Break C2) Seismological data Participants: Paul Richards, Columbia University Raymond Willemann, IRIS - A proposal on US-China seismological data exchange and cooperation Qu Guosheng, National Earthquake Response Support Center (NERSS) - Presentation on Wenchuan Earthquake data Roundtable Discussion – All participants C3) Snow and ice data Participants: Tingjun Zhang, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado - Impacts of Climatic and Cryospheric Changes on Ecosystems and the Hydrologic Cycle in the Western China Zhang Yaonan (CAREERI, CAS) - The Data Platform of National Special Environment and Disaster Field Observation Stations Roundtable Discussion – All participants 12:00 -13:15   Lunch C4) Atmospheric and Oceanographic data Participants: Zaihua Ji, NCAR representative - Promoting active data sharing between China and the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research Frank Williams, Director, ARSC Virginia Bedford, Associate Director, ARSC Chen Ge, Ocean University of China - An Overview of Marine Data Management in China Roundtable Discussion – All participants

• 16:00-16:30      Reports on the breakout sessions by breakout session rapporteurs
• 16:30-17:00     Concluding remarks by the Roundtable Meeting co-chairs