An ad hoc committee will conduct a study of issues that have arisen from the evolution of practices in the collection, processing, oversight, publishing, ownership, accessing, and archiving of research data. The key questions to be addressed are:
1. What are the growing varieties of research data? In addition to issues concerned with the direct products of research, what issues are involved in the treatment of raw data, pre-publication data, materials, algorithms, and computer codes?
2. Who owns research data, particularly that which results from federally-funded research? Is it the public? The research institution? The lab? The researcher?
3. To what extent is a scientist responsible for supplying research data to other scientists (including those who seek to reproduce the research) and to other parties who request them? Is a scientist responsible for supplying data, algorithms, and computer codes to other scientists who request them?
4. What challenges does the science and technology community face arising from actions that would compromise the integrity of research data? What steps should be taken by the science and technology community, research institutions, journal publishers, and funders of research in response to these challenges?
5. What are the current standards for accessing and maintaining research data, and, how should these evolve in the future? How might such standards differ for federally-funded and privately-funded research, and for research conducted in academia, government, nongovernmental organizations, and industry?
The study will not address privacy issues and other issues related to human subjects.
First Committee Meeting
April 16-17, 2007
The National Academies
Keck Building, Room 100 and Room 101
500 5th Street, NW
Washington, DC
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Second Committee Meeting
September 17-18, 2007
The National Academies
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center
Board Room
100 Academy Drive
Irvine, California
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Third Committee Meeting
December 10-11, 2007
The National Academies
Keck Center, Room 100
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC
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Dan Kleppner [Co-Chair]
Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Phillip A. Sharp [Co-Chair]
Institute Professor
Center for Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Margaret A. Berger
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
John Brauman
J. G. Jackson-C. J. Wood Professor
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University
Norman M. Bradburn
Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
The University of Chicago
Jennifer T. Chayes
Principal Researcher and Research Area Manager, Mathematics, Theoretical CS and Cryptography
Microsoft Research
Anita Jones
Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Virginia
Linda P.B. Katehi
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
[Committee Biographical Information]
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Neal F. Lane
University Professor and Senior Fellow
Rice University W. Carl Lineberger
Professor of Chemistry
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
University of Colorado Richard Luce
Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries
Emory University
Thomas O. McGarity
Chair, Trial & Appellate Advocacy
University of Texas-Austin
Steven M. Paul
Executive Vice President, S&T and President, Lilly Research Laboratories
Eli Lilly and Company
Teresa A. Sullivan
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Mike S. Turner
Professor
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
The University of Chicago
J. Anthony Tyson
Distinguished Professor of Physics
University of California, Davis
Steven C. Wofsy
Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Harvard University
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STAFF
Thomas Arrison
Study Director
Phone Number: (202) 334-3755
Email: tarrison@nas.edu
Neeraj P. Gorkhaly
Senior Program Assistant
Phone Number: (202) 334-1358
Email: ngorkhaly@nas.edu
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