Director

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Directors 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_at_nas.edu
• www.nas.edu/brdi

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Directors Report to BRDI

• Board mission help improve the stewardship,
  policy, and use of digital data and information
  for science and society.

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Directors 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

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Directors 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 RD 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.

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Directors 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

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Directors Report to BRDI

• Other Interim Activities
• Group on Earth Observations Data Sharing Working
  Group
• Interagency CENDI Activities
• Research Data Alliance

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Directors 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