Transcript The Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) and U.S. National Committee for CODATA Director’s Report to the 10th BRDI Meeting March 11,

The Board on Research Data and Information
(BRDI) and U.S. National Committee for CODATA
Director’s Report to the 10th BRDI Meeting
March 11, 2014
Prepared by:
Paul F. Uhlir, JD
Director, BRDI
[email protected]
See www.nas.edu/brdi for more information.
Board on Research Data and Information
Current BRDI Members
Francine Berman, Co-chair, Professor of Computer Science, RPI
Clifford Lynch, Co-chair, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked
Information
Laura Bartolo, Professor and Director, Center for Materials Informatics, Kent
State University
Henry Brady, Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California,
Berkeley
Mark Brender, Executive Director, Digital Globe Foundation
Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs, The Johns
Hopkins University
Keith Clarke, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kelvin Droegemeier, Vice President for Research, The University of Oklahoma
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BRDI Members (continued)
Clifford Duke, Director of Science Programs, Ecological Society of America
Stephen Friend, President, Sage Bionetworks
Elliot Maxwell, Consultant, Internet Policy
Alexa T. McCray (IOM), Associate Professor and Co-Director, Center for
Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Alan M. Title (NAS/NAE), Senior Fellow, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology
Center
BRDI Staff (as of 3/2014)
Paul F. Uhlir, Director
Subhash Kuvelker, Senior Program Officer*
Adriana Courembis, Financ’l Assoc. Cheryl W. Levey, Senior Program Assoc.*
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BRDI Ex Officio Members
Sara Graves, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville (CODATA Secretary General)
Bonnie Carroll , Iia Associates (CODATA Executive Board member)
Michael Clegg, UC, Irvine (NAS Foreign Secretary)
Paul Alan David, Stanford Univ. (Chair, CODATA Task Group on the Global
Information Commons for Science Initiative)
John Faundeen, USGS (Co-chair, CODATA Task Group on Data at Risk)
Kevin McCluskey, Univ. of Kansas (Co-Chair, CODATA Task Group on
Advancing Informatics for Microbiology)
Kathleen M. Robinette, Univ. of Oklahoma (Co-Chair, CODATA Task Group on
Anthropometric Data and Engineering Task Group)
Alex de Sherbinin, Columbia Univ. (Chair, CODATA Task Group on Global Roads
Data Development)
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Current and ongoing projects:
• Board meetings and public mini-symposia on select topics (ongoing
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-- twice per year, 10 meetings so far, with current meeting March 11)
U.S. Committee for CODATA (ongoing – since 1966 represents the US
interests to the international CODATA on interdisciplinary scientific data
issues, including participation in conferences and Task Groups. See
www.codata.org)
BRDI Sponsor Forum (meeting series)
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• BRDI Young Scientist Program
• Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards (since
2011, two reports in 2012 and 2013, and current Data Citation Principles)
• Future Career Opportunities and Educational Requirements for Digital
Curation—A Consensus Study (study report in review, publication in 4/2014)
• BRDI Data and Information Challenge (entry deadline 5/15/2014)
• RDA-CODATA Interest Group on Legal Interoperability of Research Data,
since 3/2013
• Group on Earth Observations Data Sharing WG, since 10/2008
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Planned projects, 2014-2015
• Economic Sustainability of Publicly Funded Research Repositories—A
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Consensus Study (planning workshop will be held March 12, 2014)
Building a Biomedical Knowledge Network (with Board on Life
Sciences)
Improving Recognition and Reward Processes in Research Data
Work
Strategies for Improving the Sharing of Earth Observation Data
Between China and the United States
Research Data as Intellectual Property—An International Workshop
Forum on Public-Private Data Innovation
Remaking the Scientific Data Enterprise (with ESIP)
CODATA-World Data System 2014 Conference (Nov., in New Delhi)
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BRDI Financial Report:
Shift from core sponsorship to ad hoc project sponsors (sequestration)
5 core sponsors: NSF/ACI, DOE, NIST, NIH and IMLS
Core sponsors that have stopped: NOAA, USGS and Library of Congress
Potential core sponsors: NASA, NARA and DOD
Project support (small amount) currently from Sloan and Moore Foundations
Current shortfall leading to loss of staff, at least for ½ year.
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BRDI undertakes the following tasks within its primary mission areas:
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Addresses emerging issues in the management, policy, and use of research data
and information at the national and international levels.
Through studies and reports of the National Research Council, provides
independent and objective advice, reviews of programs, and assessment of
priorities concerning research data and information activities for its sponsors.
Encourages and facilitates collaboration across disciplines, sectors, and nations
with regard to common interests in research data and information activities.
Monitors, assesses, and contributes to the development of U.S. government and
research community positions on research data and information programs and
policies.
Initiates or responds to requests for consensus studies, workshops, conferences,
and other activities within the Board’s mission, and provides oversight for the
activities performed under the Board’s auspices.
Broadly disseminates and communicates the results of the Board’s activities to its
stakeholders and to the general public.
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Role of Board members:
• Goals/functions in Statement of Task—full Board does that
• Ex officio members have same “rights” as regular Board members,
except travel funding
• No written Academy guidance, except what not to do
• Form small teams for project development and oversight
• Need to discuss size and structure of BRDI in near future