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Director’s Report 8 th BRDI Meeting Washington, DC 26 February 2013

Director’s Report 8 th 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 puhlir@nas.edu www.nas.edu/brdi. Director’s Report to BRDI.

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Director’s Report 8 th BRDI Meeting Washington, DC 26 February 2013

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  1. Director’s Report8th BRDI MeetingWashington, DC26 February 2013 Paul F. Uhlir, J.D. Director, Board on Research Data and Information National Academy of Sciences Washington, DC puhlir@nas.edu www.nas.edu/brdi

  2. Director’s Report to BRDI Board mission:help improve the stewardship, policy, and use of digital data and information for science and society.

  3. 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

  4. Director’s Report to BRDI Recent and ongoing Board projects: • Consensus study on Future Career Opportunities and Educational 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.

  5. 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

  6. Director’s Report to BRDI Other Interim Activities: Group on Earth Observations Data Sharing Working Group Interagency CENDI Activities Research Data Alliance

  7. 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

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