[Asis-l] Making The Web Work For Science | Library of Congress | December 8, 2008 | 9:00am - 4:30pm

[gerrymck]

Colleagues/

A Major Conference/Workshop That May Be Of Interest …

/Gerry

Making the Web Work for Science:  The Impact of e-Science and the
Cyberinfrastructure
A One-Day Workshop Co-sponsored by CENDI. NFAIS and FLICC
Hosted by FLICC at the Library of Congress

e-Science is used to describe computationally intensive science that
is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science
that uses immense data sets that require grid computing; the term
sometimes includes technologies that enable distributed
collaboration."  [Wikipedia]

FLICC of the Library of Congress is pleased to host this meeting in
the Library of Congress Mumford Room, 101 Independence Avenue, SE,
Washington, DC, 20540.  This timely and impactful workshop will take
place on Monday, December 8, 2008,  9:00 am - 4:30 pm.
E-Science and the Web will begin with an overview of the current
landscape and how the Web is being utilized for the advancement of
science and scholarly communication.  Following this thoughtful,
high-level perspective, real-life examples will be given of how major
communities such as librarians, publishers, and federal STI program
leaders are using the Web to advance scientific knowledge and
scholarly communication.

The Web has the potential to revolutionize the conduct of scientific
research. Interactive communication, global collaboration, real-time
data sharing and analysis of test results, and the shear speed with
which new ideas can be widely distributed, verified, and built upon
all hold much promise - not only for drug discovery, but also for the
development of the sustainable energy and food alternatives essential
to our world.

But is the Information Community acting quickly enough in leveraging
the Web's potential to accelerate scientific discovery?  What is the
current status?  How are libraries and content providers utilizing the
Web to provide state-of-the-art information products and services, and
do these services really meet researchers' needs?  What are the
challenges to fulfilling the Web's full potential and how are they
being met? And what does the future hold for scientific discovery if
the full potential of the Web is truly realized?  Join us on December
8th and learn the answers to these questions and more!
Program

Dr. Christine Borgman, author of Scholarship in the Digital Age:
Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet, will provide a
provocative keynote on the role that the Web currently plays in
scientific research.  Content providers Howard Ratner (Nature
Publishing) and Dr. Walter Warnick (Department of Energy), along with
Dr. G. Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins University), will discuss their
organization's use of the Web in providing information products and
services for researchers. Practicing scientists, Dr. Alberto Conti and
Dr. Anthony Williams will provide their perspective on what still
needs to be done to meet scientists' needs. Dr. Michael Nelson (IBM),
Fred Haber (Copyright Clearance Center) and Dr. Michael Nielson
(Perimeter Institute, Canada), will discuss the technological, legal,
and cultural challenges to fulfilling the Web's potential for science.
And the closing keynote, given by Dr. Chris Greer, recently of the
National Science Foundation's Cyber-Infrastructure Office and, now,
Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD)
Director of the National Coordination Office, will discuss how the
cyber-infrastructure will ultimately shape the advancement of science
and scholarly communication

I have listed the full agenda (with select links) on the Scholarship
2.0 blog at

[ http://tinyurl.com/5ko9ve ]

Enjoy!

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu

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