Meeting of the U.S. National Committee for CODATA

Board on International Scientific Organizations
The National Academies

Room 201
The Keck Center
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC

AGENDA

Wednesday, July 13

Open Session

12:00 p.m.
Lunch

1:00
A. Chair's Opening Remarks, Roberta Balstad
1. Introduction of new members
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/roster.pdf
2. Review of action items from last meeting and interim activities
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/Action_Items_June_2004_Meeting.pdf
3. Meeting goals and agenda review

1:20
B. Review of International CODATA Activities
1. Results of CODATA 2004 Conference in Berlin, Bob Chen
http://www.codata.org/newsletters/newsltr89final.pdf
2. Results of CODATA 2004 General Assembly, Bonnie Carroll
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/GA_minutes.pdf
3. Results of March Executive Committee meeting, Bob Chen
4. Review of draft CODATA Strategic Plan, Bob Chen
5. Update on WSIS-related CODATA activities and USNC/CODATA support, Bob Chen & Paul Uhlir
http://www.wsis-online.net/
6. Status of plans for CODATA Information Commons Workshop in Paris, September 2005, Paul Uhlir
http://www.codataweb.org/UNESCOmtg/agenda.html
7. GBIF 3^rd-year Review, Bob Chen & Paul Uhlir
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/GBIF_3rd_Year_Review.pdf
8. Status of CODATA Journal and Web activities, Bob Chen
http://www.codataweb.org/journalproposals/index.html
9. Status of plans for CODATA 2006 Conference in Beijing, Bob Chen
http://www.codata.cn/2006/
10. Follow-up to ICSU Priority Area Assessment on Scientific Data & Information, Roberta Balstad
http://www.icsu.org/1_icsuinscience/DATA_Paa_1.html
11. Other international CODATA issues and general discussion, Roberta Balstad

2:50

BREAK

3:10

C. International CODATA and USNC Data Archiving Activities, William Anderson
1. Report from Beijing Workshop on Strategies for Preservation and Open Access to Digital Scientific Data in China, June 2004
2. Plans for Workshop on Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Southern Africa, September 2005
http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/html/workshopCodata1.html
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/Southern_Africa_Workshop_Agenda.pdf
3. Plans for Workshop on Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America, spring 2006
4. Status of CODATA-ICSTI Portal on Scientific Archiving
http://www.nap.edu/shelves/codata/index.html
5. Other issues from July 13 U.S. archiving subgroup meeting

4:20
D. Other International CODATA Projects
1. Discussion of prospective joint activities with Russian National CODATA Committee, Alexei Gvishiani
2. Status of plans for InterAcademy Workshop on Access to Scientific Information in Dakar, Winter 2006, Paul Uhlir
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/InterAcademy_Workshop_status.pdf
3. Reports by ex officio members on CODATA Task Group activities and other issues of potential interest to the USNC, Roberta Balstad
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/CENDI_report.pdf
4. Other matters

5:20
Adjourn

Thursday, July 14

E. CODATA-CENDI Forum on the
National Science Board Report on Long-Lived Digital Data Collections

Open Session

8:30 a.m.
Welcoming remarks by USNC/CODATA and CENDI Chairs, Roberta Balstad & Walter Warnick

8:45
Status of NSB Report and purpose of Forum discussion, Chris Greer, NSF
http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2005/LLDDC_report.pdf

8:55
Opening remarks by discussion moderator, William Anderson

9:00
Discussion of report by Forum participants

10:30
Break

10:50
Discussion of report by Forum participants

12:20 p.m.
Concluding observations by USNC/CODATA and CENDI Chairs

12:30
LUNCH

1:00
F. Spotlight on a Committee Member Data Activity, Raed Sharif, Academy Fellow

1:30
G. Report on Board on International Scientific Organizations, Wendy White
1. Recent developments at BISO
2. BISO interactions with ICSU
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/ICSU_GA.pdf
3. BISO interactions with UNESCO

1:45

H. Federal USNC Liaison Reports, Roberta Balstad

2:15

I. Review of USNC/CODATA Activities
1. USNC follow-up to NSB Report, Roberta Balstad
http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/2005/LLDDC_report.pdf
2. USNC Symposium/Workshop on Knowledge Discovery, Paul Uhlir
3. E-Gov access in developing countries, Paul Uhlir
4. National USNC/CODATA data conference, Roberta Balstad
5. Proposals for bilateral scientific data committee and scientific information committee with Chinese Academy of Sciences, Paul Uhlir
6. Follow-up on discussion of projects from previous afternoon, Roberta Balstad & William Anderson
7. Follow-up on potential collaboration with statistical community, Roberta Balstad
8. Report on recent database IP and policy developments, Paul Uhlir
9. Other items raised by committee members and liaisons and general discussion, Roberta Balstad

3:45
J. Closing Session, Roberta Balstad
1. Action items and assignments
2. Date of next meeting

4:00
Adjourn