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 [Additional Information] Second Committee Meeting September 17-18, 2007 The National Academies The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center Board Room 100 Academy Drive Irvine, California [Additional Information] Third Committee Meeting December 10-11, 2007 The National Academies Keck Center, Room 100 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC [Additional Information]
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] | 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 |
STAFFThomas 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 National Research Council, USDA, NASA, USGS/INTR, DHHS/ORI, DoE, Eli Lilly and Company, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Nature Publishing Group, The Rockefeller University Press, New England Journal of Medicine, American Chemical Society, FASEB, AAAS, American Geophysical Union and IEEE
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