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Meeting of the U.S. National Committee for CODATA

Board on International Scientific Organizations
The National Academies

Room 110
The Keck Center
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC

Preliminary Agenda

Tuesday, March 20

Open Session

8:00
a.m.

 

Continental breakfast

   

8:45

 

A. Chair's Opening Remarks
1. Introductions
View 2007 USNC/CODATA Membership List
2. Review of
action items from last meeting and interim activities
3. Meeting goals and agenda review

 

Roberta Balstad

         

9:00

 

B. Report on the National Science and Technology Council’s Working Group on Digital Data
- Committee discussion

 

Christopher Greer, NSF

         

9:30

 

C. Review of Current and Proposed USNC/CODATA Activities

1. Proposed Board on Research Data and Information Resources

- Discussion of strategic objectives with committee liaisons

 

Roberta Balstad

10:30

 

BREAK

   

10:45

 

C. Review of Current and Proposed USNC/CODATA Activities (continued)

2. Bilateral scientific data roundtable with the CNC/CODATA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Summary and Results of October 2006 Meeting, and plans for the 2007 meeting
3. Proposal for a
National Symposium and Workshop on the Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in the Virtual Environment (with CSTB)

4. Proposal for an International Workshop on the Socioeconomic Effects of Access and Reuse Policies for Online Public Sector Information (with OECD)
5. Proposal for a
Regional Workshop on Geospatial Data for Health and Environmental Applications in Latin America: A Focus on Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development (with BESR, IANAS, and PAIGH)

6. Designing Digital Commons for Sustainability Science and Innovation (with Japanese CODATA Committee and University of Tokyo)

 

Roberta Balstad

         

11:45

 

D. Committee Liaison and Ex Officio Reports

   
         

12:15

 

LUNCH (in meeting room)

   
         

1:00

 

E. Review of International CODATA Activities
1. Review of results from CODATA 2006 Conference in Beijing
http://www.codata.cn/2006/
- Discussion of USNC contributions

2. Results of CODATA 2006 Side Meetings in Beijing
a.
US-China Roundtable on Scientific Data Cooperation: Summary and Proposal
b. Global Digital Commons for Science Workshop: Summary and Prospectus
c. GEOSS Data Policy
d. UNESCO WSIS Follow-up
e. Materials Data Workshop
f. Other meetings

3. Results of CODATA General Assembly

a. Approved Task Group proposals and status

b. CODATA election results
c. Status of Strategic Plan, 2006-2011

d. Global Information Commons for Science Initiative
e. Review of other issues from the General Assembly

4. Plans for Mar 07 CODATA Executive Board meeting

 

Roberta Balstad & Bob Chen

Roberta Balstad & Paul Uhlir

Paul Uhlir

Bob Chen

Bob Chen

Krishna Rajan

Bob Chen

Bob Chen and Bonnie Carroll

Bob Chen

2:00

 

BREAK

   

2:15

 

F. International CODATA and USNC Data Archiving Activities
1. Plans for
Workshop with CODATA TG on African Data Sources in Pretoria, May 2007
2. Plans for Workshop on Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America, May 2007:
Summary Prospectus and Program
3. Status of CODATA-ICSTI Portal on Scientific Archiving
4. Collaboration with other groups –
IAP, UN GAID
5 Other issues from March 19 U.S. archiving subgroup meeting

 

William Anderson

         

3:00

 

G. Other International Activities and Issues
1.
OECD Recommendation on Access to Data from Publicly Funded Research
2. Update on Webcasting Treaty status and on database IP and policy developments
3. Other international CODATA issues

4. Follow-up to discussion of NSTC WG on Scientific Data
5. Follow-up on discussion of projects from morning session
6. Other items raised by the committee and general discussion

 

Anita Eisenstadt

Paul Uhlir

Roberta Balstad

         

4:00

4:10

 

H. Closing Session
1. Action items, schedule, and assignments

2. Chair’s closing remarks

ADJOURN

 

Roberta Balstad

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