[Pasig-discuss] BRDI Symposium Announcement - Finding the Needle in the Haystack

[Arthur Pasquinelli]

Dear Colleagues,

You may be interested in a symposium we are holding on the afternoon of 
Tuesday the 26th in conjunction with our next Board meeting. You also 
may wish to attend the discussion we have scheduled right before the 
symposium with 3 leading STM publishing reps examining the relationship 
of scientific data to the literature and other cutting-edge technical 
features of scholarly publishing. The full Board agenda is available at 
www.nas.edu/brdi

Please let me know if you have questions or intend to attend.

Regards,
Paul Uhlir
_________________________________________

Board on Research Data and Information

Dear Colleague,

You are cordially invited to attend a public symposium entitled Finding 
the Needle in the Haystack: Strategies for Discovering Research Data 
Online. The event is being organized by the National Research Council's 
Board on Research Data and Information, and will be held on the 
afternoon of February 26 in Washington, DC. A formal invitation with the 
summary description of the symposium, the location, and RSVP 
instructions may be found below.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to others who you think may 
be interested. More complete information about the event and the Board 
on Research Data and Information is at: 
http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi.

If you are able to join us, we only ask that you let us know at least a 
day in advance by RSVP to: clevey at nas.edu.

The symposium will be webcast, if you cannot attend in person, but we 
hope to see you there!

Best wishes,
Paul Uhlir
Director, Board on Research Data and Information

INVITATION

Finding the Needle in the Haystack:

A Public Symposium on
Strategies for Discovering Research Data Online

Organized by the
Board on Research Data and Information

National Research Council
(http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi)
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 from 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm

National Academy of Sciences Auditorium
2100 C Street NW, Washington, DC

One of the problems recognized by experts and casual data users alike 
has been the inability to find the full array of research databases or 
factual compilations that are needed to support any given query. As data 
continue to proliferate and research becomes more data intensive, the 
discoverability of factual references also grows in importance. For 
research funders and policymakers, there is a need to better understand 
data productivity and trends in science, both quantitatively and 
qualitatively. Yet the deluge of information and the diversity of the 
datasets makes the task for all users of data and facts that much more 
difficult.

Despite the proliferation of models and solutions in various disciplines 
and sectors, there is a recognized need for a pervasive infrastructure, 
standardization of approaches, and the usual questions of who does what, 
where, and how? This symposium therefore seeks to highlight some of 
these different approaches, providing examples that are both broadly 
interdisciplinary as well as discipline-specific to finding the right 
data at the right place in the right time. Although we will not offer 
any common solutions to this set of problems, we do hope to shed some 
light on the underlying issues and provide an opportunity for experts 
working in this area to interact, both among each other and with the 
audience.

The co-chairs of the Board on Research Data and Information, Clifford 
Lynch of the Coalition on Networked Information, and Francine Berman of 
the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will lead the symposium 
discussion, beginning at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, February 26. The event will 
continue for 2 1Ž2 hours in a mix of short presentations and discussion. 
The entire proceedings will be recorded and an audio-tape will be 
archived on the Board's website. The meeting will be followed by a 
reception outside the main auditorium.

The symposium is open to the public, but advance registration is 
requested (contact: Cheryl Levey, clevey at nas.edu or call 202-334-1531).

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 from 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm

National Academy of Sciences Auditorium
2100 C Street NW, Washington, DC

The symposium is free and open to the public, but advance registration 
is requested.
RSVP to Cheryl Levey at clevey at nas.edu

For additional information about the program, please visit 
http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi
or contact Paul Uhlir, the Board Director, at puhlir at nas.edu or 
202-334-1531.

The Symposium will be webcast--see the Board website for details on 
Tuesday, February 26, 2013.


Cheryl Williams Levey
Senior Program Associate
National Academy of Sciences
Board on Research Data and Information
Keck 511 (c/o Paul Uhlir)
Washington, DC 20001
U.S.A.
Phone: 301-473-1482
Fax: 773-897-7455
E-mail: clevey at nas.edu
http://www.nas.edu/brdi