2nd BRDI Board Meeting, Sept 24-25, 2009

Second Meeting of the

Board on Research Data and Information

National Academy of Sciences

2100 C Street NW
Washington, DC

Draft Agenda

	Thursday, September 24, 2009
	Board Room

	Open Session

09:00	A. Opening Remarks 1. Welcome and introductions 2. Review of Board and U.S. National Committee for CODATA action items and activities since January 2009 meeting 3. Goals and agenda review of second meeting	Michael Lesk, Roberta Balstad

9:30	B. 2009 Projects: 1. International Symposium on Designing Microbial Research Commons 2. GEOSS Symposium 3. Symposium on Scientific Data for Evidence Based Policy and Decision Making 4. Managing the Exaflood – AAAS 2010 Symposium -- Short briefings by the Chairs and the leads -- General discussion	Cathy Wu Roberta Balstad Michael Lesk Bonnie Carroll

10:15	C. Recommendations of the COSEPUP Data Integrity Study - General discussion with the Board	Daniel Kleppner, MIT Tom Arrison, NRC

10:45	Coffee Break

11:00	D. BRDI Draft Strategic Plan - General discussion	Michael Lesk Roberta Balstad
11:55	LUNCH

12:30	E. Briefings from Federal Interagency Data and Information Groups 1. Interagency Working Group on Digital Data 2.CENDI Group 3. U.S. Group on Earth Observations (GEO)	Chris Greer, NITRD, Chuck Romine, NIST Elliot Siegel, NIH Martha Maiden, NASA

13:30	F. Discussion with Sponsors 1. National Science Foundation 2. National Institutes of Health 3. Defense Technical Information Center 4. National Institute for Standards and Technology 5. Institute of Museum and Library Services 6. Library of Congress	Sylvia Spengler, NSF Jerry Sheehan, NLM/NIH Gopi Nair, DTIC Belinda Collins, NIST, Paul Zielinski, NIST Joyce Ray, IMLS Peter Young, LoC

15:10	Break

15:30	*G. Public Symposium* on *“Scientific Data for Evidence Based Policy and Decision Making”* Chair: Michael Lesk, Rutgers University Listen to the symposium audiocast (134.59 MB) NAS Auditorium

18:00	Reception in the Great Hall


	Closed Session
19:15	Board Member Working Dinner in the Executive Dining Room

	Friday, September 25, 2009

	Board Room

	Open Session

8:45	H. Review of BRDI and US CODATA Projects for 2010 1. Overview of projects 2. Symposium and Workshop on the Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments * Background Information * Draft Agenda 3. Fourth US – China Roundtable Meeting * Facilitate Scientific Data Sharing by Sharing Informatics Tools and Standards 4. US - China Joint Study on Improving Scientific Data Sharing -- 2010 and 2011 5. US – India Roundtable on Scientific Data and Information Cooperation -- Planning meeting in March 2010 -- First Roundtable meeting 6. Costs and Benefits of Open Access to Publicly Funded Scientific Data and Information to the US Economy and Society 7. Managing Partially Restricted Databases 8. Young Scientists activities by BRDI	Michael Lesk, Roberta Balstad John King (by phone) James Luo, NIH/NIBIB, Roberta Balstad Roberta Balstad, Paul Uhlir Michael Lesk, Subhash Kuvelker Roberta Balstad, Heather Joseph, and Raym Crow, SPARC Michael Lesk Paul Uhlir

10:45	Break

11:00	I. Review of International CODATA Activities 1. CODATA White Paper and Implementation Guidelines for the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles - Status and plans 2. CODATA 2009 Update and SCCID Issues 3. Task Group proposals 4. SCCID issues 5. Action items for the 2010 CODATA Executive Committee meeting 6. Other US CODATA issues for international CODATA - General discussion	Bob Chen, Paul Uhlir Bob Chen Bonnie Carroll Bob Chen Sara Graves Roberta Balstad

12:30	Lunch (in meeting room)

13:30	J. Communication and Outreach 1. Overview of existing and planned activities 2. Discussion with ex officios and with representatives of external groups	Paul Uhlir Michael Lesk

14:30	K. BRDI Strategic Plan - Concluding discussion of Strategic Plan based on inputs received during the meeting - Other issues, items raised by the committee, and general discussion	Michael Lesk

16:00	L. Closing Session 1. Action items, schedule, and assignments 2. Chair’s closing remarks	Michael Lesk

16:15	ADJOURN