Co-Chairs: ZHANG Xian’en, Director General, Department of Basic Research, Ministry of Science and Technology of China; and Shuichi IWATA, President, CODATA and Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan

9:00 Welcoming Remarks by Workshop Co-Chairs

CHENG Jinpei, Vice President, Ministry of Science and Technology of China
Roberta BALSTAD MILLER, Chair, U.S. National Committee for CODATA and Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, United States

9:15 Workshop Objectives

William ANDERSON, Principal, Praxis101 and Co-Chair, CODATA Task Group on Preservation and Archiving of S&T Data in Developing Countries

9:30 Keynote Address—Strategies of China Scientific Data Sharing
CHENG Jinpei, Vice President, Ministry of Science and Technology of China

Rapporteurs: FU Xiaofeng, Director, Information Division, Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21 and Member, CODATA Task Group on Preservation and Archiving of S&T Data in Developing Countries; and Steve ROSSOUW, Member, CODATA Executive Committee

10:00 Break and Pictures

Co-Chairs: CHENG Jinpei, Vice Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology of China; and Michael CLEGG, Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Sciences, United States

10:30 The Chinese National Committee for CODATA: Its Mission and Future
XU Zhihong, Representative of the Chinese National Committee for CODATA

10:50 China’s Scientific Data Sharing Program (China-SDSP)
ZHANG Xian’en, Director General of Department of Basic Research, Ministry of Science and Technology of China

11:20 Progress and Perspectives of Climate Data Sharing of China
QIN Dahe, President, China Meteorological Administration

11:45 The Management and Sharing System for Scientific Data in Medicine
LIU Depei, President, Chinese Academy of Medicine, and Vice President, Chinese Academy of Engineering

12:10 The Mechanism for and Management of the National S&T Library of China
HU Qiheng, Vice President, Chinese Association of Science and Technology of China

Rapporteurs: XU Feng, National Information Center of China; and John WILLINSKY, Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada

12:10 Lunch

Co-Chairs: SUN Honglie, Vice President of CODATA, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Roberta BALSTAD MILLER, Chair, U.S. National Committee for CODATA and Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, United States

13:30 Trends in Development of International Scientific Data and Information
Yasuyuki AOSHIMA, Director, Beijing Office, United Nations Scientific, Educational, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

13:45 Towards International Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding
Peter SCHRÖDER, Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, The Netherlands

14:00 International Perspectives on Data and Information for Science
Carthage SMITH, Deputy Executive Director, International Council for Science (ICSU)

14:15 Initiatives on Promoting Access to Scientific Information
Michael CLEGG, Inter-Academy Panel (IAP) Member and Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Sciences, United States

14:30 General discussion

15:00 Break

Rapporteurs: WANG Zhengxing, Deputy Director, Global Change Information and Research Center, Institute of Geography and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Pippa SMART, Head of Publications, Publishing Initiatives, and Publishing Training, International Network for the Availability of Scientific Information (INASP), United Kingdom

Co-Chairs: SUN Shu, Director, Department of Earth Sciences and Director, Expert Committee of China Scientific Data Sharing Project, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Theodore Carl BERGSTROM, Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, United States

Policy and Legal Issues

15:20 Borders in Cyberspace: Maximizing Social and Economic Benefit from Public Investment in Data
Peter WEISS, J.D., U.S. National Weather Service

15:45 Reflections on the Legislation for National Scientific Data Sharing
ZHANG Jing’an, Director General, Department of Policy, Regulation, and Reform, Ministry of Science and Technology of China

Institutional and Management Issues

16:00 Managing the Impacts of Change on Archiving Research Data
Raymond McCORD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States

Local and Regional Issues

16:20 Local and Regional Earth System Science Applications and Associated Infrastructure: The Mid-Atlantic Geospatial Information Consortium
Menas KAFATOS, Professor, George Mason University, United States

16:40 Digital Fujian
WANG Qinmin, Vice Chairman, Fujian Political Consultative and Director, Department of Science and Technology, Fujian Province, China

17:00 The Role of the CODATA Task Group on Preservation and Archiving of S&T Data in Developing Countries
LIU Chuang, Co-Chair, CODATA Task Group on Preservation and Archiving of S&T Data in Developing Countries

Rapporteurs: YIN Ling, The PLA General Hospital, China; and Carthage SMITH, Deputy Director, International Council for Science (ICSU)

17:20 Preparation for Day Two and Announcements

17:30 Adjourn

18:10 Reception and Dinner

Wednesday, 23 June

8:30-12:15 Individual Presentations and Panel Discussions

5-1: Policy and Legal Issues

Co-Chairs: CHEN Jun, Director, Basic Geographical Information Center of China; and Peter SCHRÖDER, Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science, The Netherlands

Panelists:

Maximizing Social and Economic Benefit from Public Investment in Data
Peter WEISS, J.D., U.S. National Weather Service

Progress and Policy Issues on Geo-Spatial Framework of Digital China
CHEN Jun, Director, Basic Geographical Information Center of China

Global Trends to Restrict Access to Data from Government-Funded Research
Jerome REICHMAN, Duke Law School, United States, and Paul UHLIR, U.S. National Academies

Data Sharing Policy of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network
CHEN Panqin, HUANG Tieqing, Deputy Director, Department of Natural Resources and Environment Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences

On Government Information Resources Sharing
ZENG Lan, LI Jun, National Macro Economic Research Institute

Balancing the General Public Interests and Copyright in Scientific Information Management
John WILLINSKY, University of British Columbia, Canada

Comparative Study on Strategy and Policy for Open Access to Scientific Data Among the United States, European Union, and China
LIU Chuang, Professor, Institute of Geography and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Rapporteur: Paul UHLIR, J.D., U.S. National Academies

12:25 Lunch

5-2: Institutional and Economic Issues

Co-Chairs: XIAO Yun, Secretary General, Chinese National Committee for CODATA; and Dora Ann CANHOS, Centro de Referência en Informação Ambiental (CRIA), Campinas, Brazil and Member, CODATA Archiving Task Group

Panelists:

Data Sharing Policy of the National Institutes of Health
Belinda SETO, Deputy Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, United States

Data Sharing in Scientific Databases of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
XIAO Yun, Secretary General, Chinese National Committee for CODATA

Operating a Twenty-First Century Data Center
Roberta BALSTAD MILLER, Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, United States

WDC for Renewable Resources and Environment
LIAO Shunbao, Associate Professor, Global Change Information and Research Center, Institute of Geography and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Peculiar Economics of Scientific Information
Theodore Carl BERGSTROM, Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, United States

Rapporteur: Henda van der BERG, National Research Foundation, South Africa

5-3: Management and Technical Issues

Co-Chairs: LI Yixue, Director of Shanghai Biomedical Center; and Lulama MAKHUBELA, Research & Development Directorate, National Development Agency, South Africa

Panelists:

Information Infrastructure for Life Science Studies in Shanghai
LI Yixue, Director, Shanghai Biomedical Center

Managing the Impacts of Programmatic Scale and Enhancing Incentives for Data Archiving
Raymond McCORD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States

Involving the Private Sector in the Environmental Enterprise
Anne LINN, Director, Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data, U.S. National Academies

Earth Science Data and Information Management in Western China
SUN Chengquan, Director, Information Center for Natural Resources and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Data Integration and Management: A PDB Perspective
FENG Zukang, Protein Data Bank, United States

Launching a New Open-Access Journal
Helen DOYLE, Director, Development & Strategic Alliances, Public Library of Science, United States

Rapporteur: William ANDERSON, Praxis101, United States

Co-Chairs: GUO Huadong, Associate Secretary General and Director, Department of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Khudulmur SODOV, Director, Information and Computer Center, National Remote Sensing Center, Mongolia

13:30 Cross-Disciplinary Rapporteur Reports

Policy and Legal Issues
Paul UHLIR, J.D., U.S. National Academies

Institutional and Economic Issues
XIAO Yun, Secretary General, Chinese National Committee for CODATA

Management and Technical Issues
LI Yixue, Director, Shanghai Biomedical Center, China

14:15 General Discussion of Cross-Disciplinary Issues

15:00 Break

15:30 The Future Role of CODATA
Prof. Shuichi IWATA, University of Tokyo, and President, CODATA

16:00 Open Journal Systems: A Live Demonstration of Open-Source Journal Management Software
John WILLINSKY, University of British Columbia, Canada

16:45 Summary Remarks
SUN Honglie, Vice President, CODATA

Rapporteurs: LI Zengyuan, Deputy Director, Institute of Natural Resources Information, Chinese Academy of Forestry; and Julie ESANU, Office of International S&T Information Program, U.S. National Academies

16:55 Preparation for Day Three and Announcements

17:00 Adjourn

Thursday, 24 June

Co-Chairs: YIN Ling, Director, Neuroinformatics Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital; and Vishwas CHAVAN, National Chemical Laboratory, India

9:00 A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Scientific Data in a Highly Protectionist Intellectual Property Environment
Jerome REICHMAN, Duke Law School, United States and Paul UHLIR, U.S. National Academies

9:20 International Medical Scientific Data Sharing
YIN Ling, Chinese PLA General Hospital

9:40 The NIH Roadmap for Medical Research
Belinda SETO, Deputy Director, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, United States

10:00 OECD-GSF-NI (Neuroinformatics) Data Sharing
TANG Yiyuan, Dalian Polytech University, China

10:20 The Safeguarding and Sharing of Traditional Chinese Medicinal Database Resources
LIU Baoyan, Chinese Academy of Medicine

10:40 Break

10:55 Protein Data Bank: A Key Biological Resource
FENG Zukang, Protein Data Bank, United States

11:15 Long-Term Study for Digital Human and Scientific Data Sharing
QIN Donglie, The Capital Hospital University, China

11:35 Open Access to Scientific Data on Biological Diversity: an Urgent Need for China
James EDWARDS, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Denmark

11:55 Discussion

Rapporteurs: HUANG Funan, Chinese PLA General Hospital; and Paul UHLIR, J.D., U.S. National Academies

12:10 Adjourn

7-2: Earth Sciences, Environmental and Natural Resources Data

Location:
Institute of Geography and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Co-Chairs: LIU Chuang, Institute of Geography and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Dora Ann CANHOS, Centro de Referência en Informação Ambiental (CRIA), Brazil and Member, CODATA Archiving Task Group

9:00 International Policy and Cooperation in Digital Earth
GUO Huadong, Associate Secretary General and Director, Department of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

9:15 The Present Status and Future Development Strategy of China’s Sustainable Development Information Network
FU Xiaofeng, The Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21

9:30 Environmental Database Development in Mongolia
Khudulmur SODOV, Director, Information and Computer Center, National Remote Sensing Center, Mongolia

9:45 Data Archiving for Long Term Preservation in the Satellite Ground Station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
LIU Dingsheng, Satellite Ground Station, Chinese Academy of Sciences

10:00 Special Considerations for Archiving Data from Field Observations
Raymond McCORD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States

10:15 The Information System for Earth Science Data Sharing of China
QU Jiansheng, Information Center for Natural Resources and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

10:30 Towards a Balanced Performance Appraisal System in the Digital Era for Data Archiving and Sharing in China
WANG Zhengxing, Global Change Information and Research Center, Institute of Geography and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences

10:45 Break

11:00 Uses of Seismic Data and the Importance of Open Access to Major Data Centers in Seismology
Paul RICHARDS, Columbia University, United States

11:15 Existing Infrastructure for International Exchange of Seismic Data
Raymond WILLEMANN, GEM Technologies, United States

11:30 Seismic Data Sharing in China
YANG Dake, China Earthquake Administration

11:45 Discussion

Rapporteurs: ZHU Xiaohua, Global Change Information and Research Center, Institute of Geography and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Roberta BALSTAD MILLER, Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, United States and Chair, U.S. National Committee for CODATA

12:10 Adjourn

7-3: Scientific Information, Journals and Digital Libraries

Location: Library of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Co-Chairs: ZHANG Xiaoling, Director, Library of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Steve ROSSOUW, Cape Technicon University, South Africa

9:05 An Open Access Future
Helen DOYLE, Director, Development & Strategic Alliances, Public Library of Science, United States

9:25 Developing an Open Digital Library: the Practice of the Chinese National Science Digital Library (CSDL)
ZHANG Xiaolin, Director of Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences

9:45 Are Economic Journals Becoming Obsolete?
Theodore Carl BERGSTROM, University of California at Santa Barbara, United States

10:05 Arguments on the Future of the Library and Economics of Open Access
John WILLINSKY, University of British Columbia, Canada

10:25 Information, Journals, and Digital Libraries: Can Developing Countries Become Key Players in the Information Society?
Lulama MAKHUBELA, Research & Development Directorate, National Development Agency, South Africa

10:45 Break

11:10 Arguments on Open Access to Scientific Information
MENG Liansheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences

11:20 The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)—Opportunities in a Changing Information Environment
Pippa SMART, Head of Publications, Publishing Initiatives and Publishing Training, INASP, United Kingdom

11:40 Discussion

Rapporteur: Julie ESANU, Office of International S&T Information Programs, U.S. National Academies

12:10 End of Meeting