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Meeting of the U.S. National Committee for CODATA

Board on International Scientific Organizations
The National Academies

Room 206
The Keck Center
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC

Agenda

Wednesday, July 12

Open Session

8:30 a.m.

 

Coffee and tea

   

9:00

 

A. Chair's Opening Remarks
1. Introductions
2.
Review of action items from last meeting and interim activities
3. Meeting goals and agenda review

 

Roberta Balstad

         

9:15

 

B. Review of International CODATA Activities
1. Status of plans for CODATA 2006 Conference in Beijing
http://www.codata.cn/2006/
- Discussion of USNC contributions

2. CODATA 2006 Side Meetings in Beijing
a. US-China Roundtable on Scientific Data Cooperation:
Summary and Proposal
b. Global Info Commons for Science Workshop:
Summary and Prospectus
c. GEOSS Data Policy
d. UNESCO WSIS Follow-up
e. Materials Data Workshop
f. Other meetings
3. Review of pending CODATA Task Group proposals and reports on recent TG activities
- Committee discussion
4. Results of April 2006 CODATA Executive Board meeting
5. Review of draft CODATA Strategic Plan, 2006-2011
6. Review of Other Issues for CODATA General Assembly
7. CODATA Science Journal

 

Roberta Balstad & Bob Chen

Paul Uhlir

Bob Chen

Krishna Rajan

Roberta Balstad and Bob Chen

Bob Chen

Bob Chen
Bob Chen

John Rumble

         

10:45

 

BREAK

   
         

11:00

 

C. International CODATA and USNC Data Archiving Activities
1.
Report from Workshop on Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Southern Africa, September 2005, and plans for follow-up workshop
2. Plans for Workshop on Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America, March 2007:
Prospectus
3. Status of CODATA-ICSTI Portal on Scientific Archiving
4.
Proposal for Promoting Open Digital Scientific Repositories through Academies of Sciences
5. Proposal for a National Strategy on Long-Lived Scientific Data Collections
6 Other issues from July 11 U.S. archiving subgroup meeting

 

William Anderson

         

11:45

 

D. Other International Projects and Issues
1. Results from InterAcademy Panel Workshop on Access to Scientific Information in Dakar, January 2006
2.
Status of OECD Expert WG on Access to Data from Publicly Funded Research
3. New OECD WG on Evaluating Access Regimes for Public Sector Information
4.
Update on Webcasting Treaty issues and on database IP and policy developments
5. Other international CODATA issues and general discussion

 

Paul Uhlir

Paul Uhlir & Anita Eisenstadt
Paul Uhlir

Paul Uhlir

Roberta Balstad

         

12:15

 

LUNCH (in meeting room)

   
         

1:00

 

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

         

1:30

 

F. Review of Proposed USNC/CODATA Activities
1. Bilateral scientific data roundtable with the CNC/CODATA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences:
Summary and Proposal
2. Proposal for a National Strategy on Long-Lived Digital Scientific Data Collections
3.
Access and Use of Publicly Funded Geospatial Data for Health and Environmental Applications in Latin America: A Focus on Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development
4.
The Future of Knowledge Discovery and Diffusion in the Digital Age
5. Follow-up on discussion of projects from morning session
a. Global Information Commons for Science Initiative:
Summary and Prospectus
b.
Promoting Open Digital Scientific Repositories through Academies of Sciences
c. Latin American workshop on data preservation and access:
Prospectus
d. Collaboration with Russian CODATA
6. Other items and general discussion

 

Roberta Balstad

         

3:45

 

G. Closing Session
1. Action items and assignments

 

Roberta Balstad

         

4:00

 

ADJOURN

   

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