Sorry for cross-posting. Note that this event will be webcast. 
Cheers, Bob

*****
Dr. Robert S. Chen
Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network
  (CIESIN), The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Manager, NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
Secretary General, CODATA, Committee on Data for Science and Technology,
  International Council for Science (ICSU)
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
tel. +1 845-365-8952; fax +1 845-365-8922
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CIESIN web site: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu
SEDAC web site: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu
CODATA web site: http://www.codata.org


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 
symposium will be webcast, if you cannot attend in person, but we hope
to see 
you there!

Best wishes,



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, 2:00-4:15 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,
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 
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

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 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
For additional information about the program, please visit
http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi
or contact Paul Uhlir, the Board Director, at 
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 202-334-1531.

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