I would like to announce two new activities of potential interest to the participants on this listserv. The first is the formation of a new Board on Research Data and Information at the U.S. National Research Council. The Board's mission is to improve the management, policy, and use of digital data and information for science and the broader society. The Board is funded by federal government agencies to provide advice and to serve as a forum to address these issues. Additional information about the Board may be obtained at our website: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/brdi/index.htm.
The Board's inaugural meeting will be held January 29-30, and will include a mini-Symposium on Author Deposit Mandates for Government Grantees. The symposium, which is open to the public and will be netcast (audio only), will begin at 4:30 EST (Washington, DC time) on the afternoon of Thursday, 29 January. Comments and questions from remote participants will be possible. Information about the symposium is available under "Upcoming Events" on the upper right corner of our website. In addition, the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP), an organization of the world's academies of sciences, has a new Program on Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure in Developing Countries, which was initiated last year. This program is focused on the greater involvement of science academies in a number of areas in developing countries, including: OA digitization of valuable analog research material; open institutional repositories; socially beneficial research applications of data centers and networks; development of interactive open knowledge environments; and greater involvement by the academies in the promotion and use of high-speed research and education networks. The IAP Program's website, which is still being developed, is available with some preliminary information at: http://www.interacademies.net/CMS/Programmes/4704.aspx. Additional information about both the Board on Research Data and Information and the IAP Program can be obtained from me at puh...@nas.edu. Your comments, suggestions, and collaborations will be welcome. Paul Uhlir Paul F. Uhlir, J.D. Director, NRC Board on Research Data and Information, and IAP Program on Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure in Developing Countries The National Academies, Keck-511 500 Fifth Street NW Washington, DC 20001 USA Tel. + 1 202 334 1531 Fax + 1 202 334 2231 Email: puh...@nas.edu Web: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/brdi/index.htm Web: http://www.interacademies.net/CMS/Programmes/4704.aspx -----Original Message----- From: American Scientist Open Access Forum [mailto:american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 10:45 PM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Fwd: Statement on Open Cyberinfrastructure from NSF From: Tony Hey <Tony.Hey -- microsoft.com> List-Post: goal@eprints.org List-Post: goal@eprints.org Date: January 5, 2009 10:34:40 PM EST (CA) To: Peter Suber <peters -- earlham.edu>, Stevan Harnad <harnad -- ecs.soton.ac.uk> Cc: Brewster Kahle <brews...@archive.org> Subject: Statement on Open Cyberinfrastructure from NSF Peter, Stevan At the recent December meeting of NSF's Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI) the following statement was agreed in the minutes of the previous meeting: "In order to help catalyze and facilitate the growth of advanced CI, a critical component is the adoption of open access policy for data, publications and software." CI = Cyberinfrastructure. Brewster Kahle was one of the architects of this statement and I know that Brewster would like to see this advice from ACCI to NSF gain wide publicity. He may be willing to provide a supporting statement. Ed Seidel is the new Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure and the committee were also keen to see this more widely promoted ... Hope this is of interest ... Tony