Agenda Data Attribution

AGENDA

		Day One – Monday, August 22
		Hotel Shattuck Plaza Whitecotton Room, Sixth Floor 2086 Allston Way Berkeley, CA

9:00 am		I. Chair’s Welcoming Remarks and Keynote: Why are the attribution and citation of scientific data important? Christine Borgman, University of California at Los Angeles

9:20		II.a. What are the major technical issues that need to be considered in developing and implementing scientific data citation standards and practices? Moderator: John Wilbanks, Creative Commons 1. How attribution and citation relate or differ: Jean-Bernard Minster, University of California at San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography 2. Attribution and Credit: Johan Bollen, Indiana University 3. Persistence, identification, and the actionability of data citations: Herbert van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory 4. Authenticity, provenance, and trust - maintaining the scholarly value chain: Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands - Discussion

10:50		Break – 30 min

11:20		II.b. What are the major scientific issues that need to be considered in developing and implementing scientific data citation standards and practices? Which ones are universal for all types of research and which ones are field- or context- specific? Moderator: Herbert van de Sompel, LANL 1. Life Sciences: Philip Bourne, University of California at San Diego 2. Physical and earth sciences: Sarah Callaghan, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK 3. Social Sciences: Mary Vardigan, University of Michigan, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 4. Humanities: Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies - Discussion

12:50		Lunch (70 min, on site)

2:00		III. What are the major institutional, financial, legal, and socio-cultural issues that need to be considered in developing and implementing scientific data citation standards and practices? Which ones are universal for all types of research and which ones are field- or context-specific? Moderator: Paul Uhlir, National Research Council 1. Legal issues: Sarah Hinchliff Pearson, Creative Commons 2. Institutional/financial: MacKenzie Smith, MIT 3. Socio-cultural: Diane Harley, University of California at Berkeley - Discussion

3:15		Coffee break – 30 min

3.45		IV. What is the status of data attribution and citation practices in individual fields in the natural and social (economic and political) sciences in United States and internationally? Case Studies. Moderator: David Kochalko, Thomson Reuters 1. DataCite: Jan Brase, National Library of Science and Technology, Germany 2. Dataverse: Micah Altman, Harvard University 3. Microsoft Academic Search: Lee Dirks, Microsoft Research 4. International Oceanographic Data Exchange and the Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Research: Roy Lowry et al. (presentation given by Sarah Callaghan) 5. Global Biodiversity Information Facility: Vishwas Chavan, GBIF 6. Federation of Earth Science Information Partners: Mark Parsons, National Snow and Ice Data Center 7. Scripps Institution of Oceanography: John Helly, Scripps 8. SageCite: Monica Duke, University of Bath, UKOLN - Discussion

5:30		Adjourn -- reception
		Day Two – Tuesday, August 23
		Hotel Shattuck Plaza Whitecotton Room, Sixth Floor 2086 Allston Way Berkeley, CA

8:45		V. Institutional Roles and Perspectives: What are the respective roles and approaches of the main actors in the research enterprise and what are the similarities and differences in disciplines and countries? The roles of research funders, universities, data centers, libraries, scientific societies, and publishers will be explored. Moderator: Bonnie Carroll, Information International Associates 1. Universities: Deborah Crawford, Drexel University 2. Data centers: Bruce Wilson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 3. Libraries: Michael Witt, Purdue/IASSIST 4. Commercial scientific publisher: Anita de Waard, Elsevier Labs 5. Scientific society publisher: Michael Kurtz, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Astrophysics Data System - Discussion

10:30		Break (30 minutes)

11:00		Session V. (continued) Moderator: Christine Borgman, UCLA 6. Standards: Todd Carpenter, National Information Standards Organization 7. Public research funder: Sylvia Spengler, National Science Foundation - Discussion and wrap up

12:15		Lunch (I hour)

*Workshop – Options on where do we go from here?* Whitecotton Room, Sixth Floor Moderator: Allen Renear, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1:15-1:25		Introduction and charge to breakout groups, Allen Renear, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1:30 -3:30		Breakout Groups - 5 groups @ 7-9 persons each, with moderator and rapporteur (Rooms to be assigned) Breakout 2: What are the major technical issues that need to be considered in developing and implementing scientific data citation standards and practices? Chair: Martie van Deventer, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa Rapporteur: Franciel Linares, Information International Associates Breakout 3: What are the major scientific issues that need to be considered in developing and implementing scientific data citation standards and practices? Which ones are universal for all types of research and which ones are field- or context- specific? Chair: Sarah Callaghan, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK Rapporteur: Matthew Mayernik, National Center for Atmospheric Research Breakout 4: What are the major institutional, financial, legal, and socio-cultural issues that need to be considered in developing and implementing scientific data citation standards and practices? Which ones are universal for all types of research and which ones are field- or context-specific? Chair: Vishwas Chavan, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Denmark Rapporteur: Laura Wynholds, UCLA Breakout 5: What are the respective roles and approaches of the main actors in the research enterprise and what are the similarities and differences in disciplines and countries? The roles of research funders, universities, data centers, libraries, scientific societies, and publishers will be explored. Chair: Bonnie Carroll, Information International Associates, US Rapporteur: Jillian Wallis, UCLA Breakout 6: What issues would be useful to get additional feedback on from the scientific community in order to identify best practices for data citation practices and standards? Who should be asked? What is the best way to get this information? Chair: Todd Carpenter, National Information Standards Organization, US Rapporteur: Daniel Cohen, Library of Congress/NRC Board on Research Data and Information

3:30		Break

4:00		Plenary discussion of best practices and options, and wrap-up Chair: Allen Renear, UIUC

5:00		End of meeting

We are grateful to the following for support of this project:

Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number IMLS LG-00-11-0123-11;

Sloan Foundation, grant number 2011-3-19;

and Microsoft Research.