Meeting of the U.S. National Committee for CODATA

Board on International Scientific Organizations
The National Academies

Room 101
The Keck Center
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC

Agenda

Wednesday, January 25

Open Session

8:30 a.m.		Coffee and tea
9:00		A. Chair's Opening Remarks 1. Introduction of new members http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/06_roster.pdf 2. Review of action items from last meeting and interim activities http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/06_action_items.pdf 3. Meeting goals and agenda review		Roberta Balstad
9:15		B. Review of International CODATA Activities 1. Results of CODATA and USNC/CODATA activities related to WSIS http://www.codata.org/wsis/index.html and http://www.codata.org/wsis/CODATA-Inventory2Nov05.pdf		Bob Chen & Paul Uhlir
		2. Results of CODATA Information Commons Workshop in Paris, September 2005 http://www.codataweb.org/UNESCOmtg/index.html		Paul Uhlir
		3. Status of CODATA Journal and Web activities http://www.codataweb.org/journalproposals/index.html		Bob Chen & John Rumble
		4. Status of plans for CODATA 2006 Conference in Beijing http://www.codata.cn/2006/ - Discussion of USNC contributions		Bob Chen & Roberta Balstad
		5. U.S. nomination for CODATA Executive Board		Roberta Balstad
		6. Review of pending CODATA Task Group proposals and reports on recent TG activities - Committee discussion		Roberta Balstad
		7. CODATA Prize nomination http://www.codataweb.org/06conf/2006prize/prizenom.html		Roberta Balstad
		8. Results of October 2005 ICSU General Assembly		Wendy White
		9. Follow-up to ICSU Priority Area Assessment on Scientific Data & Information http://www.icsu.org/1_icsuinscience/DATA_Paa_1.html		Roberta Balstad
10:30		BREAK
10:45		C. International CODATA and USNC Data Archiving Activities 1. Report from Beijing Workshop on Strategies for Preservation and Open Access to Digital Scientific Data in China, June 2004 2. Report from Workshop on Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Southern Africa, September 2005 http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/html/workshopCodata1.html 3. Plans for Workshop on Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America, September 2006 http://www.praxis101.com/wiki/index.php/Workshop_Proposal 4. Status of CODATA-ICSTI Portal on Scientific Archiving http://www.nap.edu/shelves/codata/index.html http://www.praxis101.com/wiki/index.php/CODATA-ICSTI_Portal_Specification_DRAFT 5. Other issues from January 24 U.S. archiving subgroup meeting		William Anderson
11:20		D. Other International Projects and Issues 1. Plans for InterAcademy Panel Workshop on Access to Scientific Information in Dakar, January 2006 http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/Daka_workshop_agenda.pdf 2. Status of OECD Expert WG on Access to Data from Publicly Funded Research 3. Report on Webcasting Treaty issues and on database IP and policy developments http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/Webcasting_Treaty_Agenda.pdf 4. Other international CODATA issues and general discussion		. Paul Uhlir . Paul Uhlir . Paul Uhlir . Roberta Balstad
11:50		E. Ex Officio Member and Federal Liaison Reports on Issues of Potential Interest to the USNC 1. Reports by ex officio members 2. Reports by liaisons		Roberta Balstad
12:15		LUNCH (in meeting room)
1:00		F. Discussion of New Funding Sources and New Members		Roberta Balstad
1:20		G. Review of Proposed USNC/CODATA Activities 1. Bilateral scientific data roundtable with the Chinese Academy of Sciences http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/CAS_Roundtable.pdf 2. National Summit on Long-Lived Digital Scientific Data Collections http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2005/LLDDC_report.pdf http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/NSB_Report_Longliveddata.pdf 3. Follow-up on discussion of projects from morning session - Global Information Commons for Science Initiative http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/GISC_Proposal.pdf - Latin American workshop http://www.praxis101.com/wiki/index.php/Workshop_Proposal - Collaboration with Russian CODATA 4. Other items and general discussion		Roberta Balstad
3:20		H. Closing Session 1. Action items and assignments 2. Date of next meeting		Roberta Balstad
3:30		ADJOURN