[BOAI] Invitation: NRC Symposium on the Value of Shared Access and Reuse of Publicly Funded Scientific Data, on December 1

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Paul Uhlir, Director, Board on Research Data and
Information at National Academy of Sciences.  --Peter Suber.]



You are cordially invited to attend a public symposium on The Value of
Shared Access and Reuse of Publicly *Funded Scientific Data.* 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 December 1 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.


The audio proceedings of the symposium will be archived, if you cannot
attend in person, but unfortunately not live at the time of the meeting



Best wishes,



Paul Uhlir

Director, Board on Research Data and Information



INVITATION

*
The Value of Shared Access and ReUse of Publicly Funded Scientific Data**
A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
Organized by the
Board on Research Data and Information*

*National Research Council
(http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi)  *
*Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 2:00-4:**20** p.m. *

*20** **F** Street Conference Center*

*Conference Room B, 20 F Street, NW, Washington, DC*



This symposium will examine some of the research, economic, and social
benefits that can be derived from providing online access to publicly-funded
scientific data, as well as how such benefits can be evaluated. The event
will include presentations on the scientific data sharing and reuse policies
of the federal government; compelling examples of the value of free online
access and unfettered reuse of data; methods of assessing the value and
effects of shared access and reuse on research, the economy, and society;
and prepared comments by Board members. The symposium is open to the public,
but advance registration is requested (contact: Cheryl Levey,
clevey at nas.eduor call 202-334-1531).



*Moderator:*

Michael Lesk, Rutgers University and Board Chair



*Speakers:*

Interagency Working Group on Digital Data, OSTP *(invited)*

Rod Atkinson and Jan Johansson, Congressional Research Service

Neil S. Buckholtz, National Institute on Aging, NIH

Carl Shapiro, U.S. Geological Survey

Heather Joseph, SPARC
Michael Carroll, Washington School of Law, American University

Paul David, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford
University

Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton, UK



*Panel discussion of invited speakers and Board members*

*and*

*General discussion with the audience*



*20F Street Conference Center*

*Conference Room B, 20 F Street NW, Washington, DC*



*Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 2:00-4:15 p.m.*


The symposium is free and open to the public, but advance registration is
requested because of space limitations.
*
RSVP to Cheryl Levey at **clevey at nas.edu* <clevey at nas.edu>*.*
*For additional information about the program, please visi**t *

*http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi** *
*or contact Paul Uhlir, the Board Director, at **puhlir at nas.edu*<puhlir at nas.edu>
* or 202-334-1531.*

**

*The Symposium will be webcast--see the Board website for details on
December 1.***
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