DataCite, the international consortium to facilitate access to research data, and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) have announced that the first summer meeting will be held from June 7-8, 2010 in Hannover, Germany. The scope of the Summer Meeting 2010 is to provide a forum to data centers to exchange experience, workflows and standards for the handling of research data.
Under the theme ‘Making datasets visible and accessible,’ experts will discuss topics such as metadata for datasets – more than pure citation information?; peer-review systems and the publication of data sets - ensuring quality; trustworthiness of data centers - a technological, a structural and a legal discussion; best-practice and examples - what can be done and is done worldwide?; visualisation of datasets - more than meets the eye; and datasets and scholarly journals - a perfect combination?. The full programme and additional information on the venue and registration can be found online at www.datacite.org.
Founded in December 2009, DataCite aims to make it easier for scientists to access research data over the Internet, to increase acceptance of research data as quotable scientific objects in themselves and thus to ensure that the rules of good scientific practice continue to be adhered to.
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