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Workshop title: Metadata for Scientific Datasets
Status: Open to all, no invitation required.
Please come and join this informal meeting on metadata for scientific data.
Participants will have an opportunity to share about work, converse about
challenges, and consider forming a Dublin Core community around the topic
of metadata for digital scientific data.
Logistics:
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008
Place: Hegelplatz - Room 1.205
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Workshop description:
Funders of research in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia are increasingly
attentive to the curation of scientific data sets so that the full value of
research investments can be realized and preserved. Doing so will require
greater attention to the description and structure of datasets such that
their value can be embedded and retained more readily in the scaffolding of
scientific knowledge. The central challenges include:
* Canonical identification of datasets. Critical for establishing
provenance, auditing value and use, and attracting social-networking
attention that will enhance their value.
* Unfound data is unused data. Datasets that cannot be discovered will not
be reused, and the value of the data is thus unavailable for further
exploitation.
* Unstructured data is difficult to use: Datasets should be designed and
structured for reuse at the time of experimental design.
This session will explore interest and opportunities in the Dublin Core
community around these emerging topics, with the objective of creating an
international forum to help advance solutions.
DRAFT Agenda:
1. Introduction
2. Brief Presentations:
* Data Curation: an NSF DataNet Perspective; John Kunze, California Digital
Library
* Metadata Developments and Challenges @ the Botanischer Garten und
Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem [to-be-confirmed]
* The Dryad Repository for Data Underlying Scientific Publications; Jane
Greenberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
* DISC-UK DataShare and Social Science Datasets, Robin Mintz, EDINA and
Data Library University of Edinburgh
3. Three minute madness: Any participant can speak for 3 minutes about
their work, interest in, and challenges related to metadata for scientific
data
4. Open discussion
5. Vote/discussion about a Dublin Core community
Workshop URL: http://ils.unc.edu/mrc/sci_metadata.
We will post slides and notes from the workshop here.
For questions, please contact Sarah Carrier, SILS Metadata Research
Center Doctoral Fellow ([log in to unmask]).
We look forward to seeing you there!
Sarah Carrier
SILS Metadata Research Center Doctoral Fellow
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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