Transcript Director’s Report 8th BRDI Meeting Washington, DC 26 February 2013 Paul F. Uhlir, J.D. Director, Board on Research Data and Information National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC [email protected] www.nas.edu/brdi.

Director’s Report
8th BRDI Meeting
Washington, DC
26 February 2013
Paul F. Uhlir, J.D.
Director, Board on Research Data and Information
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, DC
[email protected]
www.nas.edu/brdi
Director’s Report to BRDI
Board mission: help improve the stewardship,
policy, and use of digital data and information for
science and society.
Director’s Report to BRDI
Board Sponsors:
National Science Foundation
National Institute of Science and Technology
National Institutes of Health
Institute for Museum and Library Services
Library of Congress
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
United States Geological Survey
Department of Energy
Sloan Foundation
Director’s Report to BRDI
Recent and ongoing Board projects:
- Consensus study on Future Career Opportunities and Educational
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Requirements for Digital Curation, 4th meeting January 2013
Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards, with
CODATA-ICSTI Task Group (first Symposium and Workshop, August 2011),
with two meetings in 2012 and 2nd report in April 2013.
Workshop on Data Intensive Science in Shanghai
International CODATA Conference and General Assembly in Taipei
Pending activities include: Planning Meeting on Public Access to Federally
Funded R&D Data and Publications; Strategy for Sharing of Earth
Observations Data Between China and the United States; and a project on
Legal Interoperability of Research Data
Two projects approved by NRC this month: Building a Biomedical
Knowledge Network (with Board on Life Sciences), and the BRDI
Competition and Lee Dirks Prize for Research Data and Information.
Other projects being discussed tomorrow.
Director’s Report to BRDI
Board Reports (publication in November/December)
- The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in the Open
Networked Environment (with CSTB)
- International Symposium on The Case for International Sharing of
Scientific Data: A Focus on Developing Countries (with BISO and
ICSU)
- For Attribution: Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices
and Standards (with CODATA-ICSTI TG on Data Citation)
Print copies available for sign up and freely online
Director’s Report to BRDI
Other Interim Activities:
Group on Earth Observations Data Sharing Working Group
Interagency CENDI Activities
Research Data Alliance
Director’s Report to BRDI
BRDI Staff:
Paul Uhlir, Director
Subhash Kuvelker, Senior Program Officer
Anita Eisenstadt, Senior Program Officer (on detail from State Dept.)
Daniel Cohen, Program Officer (on detail from Library of Congress)
Cheryl Levey, Senior Program Associate
Adriana Courembis, Financial Officer
For more information see: www.nas.edu/brdi