7th BRDI Board Meeting Agenda, August 29-30, 2012

Seventh Meeting of the
Board on Research Data and Information
National Research Council

National Academy of Sciences Main Building, Room NAS 120
2101 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC

The public is welcome to attend the open portions of the meeting, but space is limited and advance registration is required to enter the building and participate in the event. Please contact either Paul Uhlir (puhlir@nas.edu) or Cheryl Levey (clevey@nas.edu) on the BRDI staff for registering and additional information.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Open Session

08:00 Continental breakfast in meeting room

08:45 A. Welcoming remarks by Board Co-chairs

- Fran Berman and Clifford Lynch

1. Introductions

2. Agenda review

09:00 B. Director’s report

- Paul Uhlir

1. Overview of recent and ongoing projects

2. Status of action items from last meeting

- General discussion

09:15 C. The Board’s ongoing and planned activities at the national level

Session Chair: Clifford Lynch

1. Digital Curation study

- Margaret Hedstrom

FOR INFORMATION

2. US Forum on CODATA-WDS Cooperation

- Bonnie Carroll

ACTION: Advise on next steps

09:40 D. International activities of the Board and US CODATA

Session Chair: Bonnie Carroll

1. Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards project (with CODATA-ICSTI Task Group)

- Bonnie Carroll

ACTION: For information (next steps discussed in August 30)

2. Workshop on Data Intensive Science, Shanghai, October 24-25

- Subhash Kuvelker and Paul Uhlir

ACTION: For information

3. Project on Commons and Semi-Commons RFAs for USAID

- Paul Uhlir

ACTION: Advise on project participants

4. Global Scientific Data Infrastructure

- Clifford Lynch

ACTION: Prepare for mini-symposium in the afternoon and for potential follow-on activities

10:20 Break

10:45 E. Discussion of external data and information policy initiatives

Session Chair: Clifford Lynch, CNI

1. DOE SciDAC Institute on Scalable Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization

Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory

- Discussion

2. CENDI Group, Lisa Weber, NARA

- Discussion

3. International data management and policy issues in Earth observations
Peter Colohan, Office of Science and Technology Policy

- Discussion

11:50 Lunch (in meeting room)

                   F. Showcase of a BRDI member's work
                         - A Strategy for Dynamically Adaptive Weather Prediction: Cyberinfrastructure Reacting to the Atmosphere
                           Kelvin Droegemeier, University of Oklahoma

12:45 G. Board Sponsor Roundtable “big data” research issues and other interests

Session Chair: Fran Berman, RPI

- Opening presentation on the federal Big Data initiative, Suzy Iacono, NSF, co-chair of the Big Data Senior Steering Group

14:30 Break

15:00 H. Symposium on Global Scientific Data Infrastructure (in the NAS Lecture Room)

Session Chairs: Clifford Lynch and Fran Berman

17:45 Adjourn and reception in Lecture Room alcove

Closed Session

19:00 I. Working Dinner—Primi Piatti Restaurant, 2013 "I" (eye) Street, NW, Washington, DC

- Discussion of results of the first day and preparation for the second day

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Closed Session

8:00 Continental breakfast in meeting room

8:30 J. Introductory Comments by Board Chairs

- Fran Berman and Clifford Lynch

8:50 K. Planning of Board Activities

Session Chair: Fran Berman, RPI

- General discussion of Board member proposals

10:45 Break

11:00 L. Planning of Board Activities (continued)

Session chair: Clifford Lynch, CNI

12:00 M. Discussion of the Draft BRDI Dissemination Plan

Led by Cheryl Levey

12:20 Lunch in meeting room

Open Session

13:15 N. Review of international CODATA activities and plans

Session Chair: U.S. National Delegate to CODATA, Bonnie Carroll

1. Report on CODATA activities and plans

- Bob Chen, CODATA Secretary General, and Sara Graves, CODATA Executive Committee

a. Revision of CODATA Strategic Plan

b. Plans for CODATA Conference and General Assembly (G.A.) in Taipei, October 2012 (conference website)

c. Nominations for CODATA Executive Committee and Officers (Letter from Chair of Nominating Committee)

d. Proposed CODATA Constitution changes

Constitutional Membership Issues, Draft CODATA Membership Strategy,

Emai regarding Reserve Fund Amendment, Reserve Fund Proposed Amendment to CODATA Constituton

e. Other action items from CODATA EC meeting in March

f. CODATA involvement in GEO Data Sharing Task Force/Working Group

g. Review of CODATA by ICSU

h. Other issues

ACTION: Discuss potential activities and agree on any actions for CODATA G.A.

14:45 2. Review of CODATA Task Groups

- Discussion led by Bonnie Carroll

ACTION: Provide guidance to U.S. National Delegate on which Task Groups to support

15:15 O. US CODATA bid to host 2014 international CODATA Conference and Data Summit

- Discussion led by Bonnie Carroll

ACTION: Approve US CODATA/BRDI bid

15:45 P. Wrap-up by Board Co-Chairs

1. Action items, schedule, and assignments

2. Co-chairs’ closing remarks

16:00 End of meeting