The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) has announced that it will hold its one-day Winter Workshop in Paris on March 5, 2012. The theme for this year's workshop is 'Delivering Data in Science'. Jan Brase, ICSTI's Vice President and Principal at DataCite, will chair the event which is expected to provide the best possible update on all data related issues.
Data is seen to be the foundation of modern science at present. Today's enhanced science is data driven. The number of data produced has never been as colossal as it is today, it has been observed. At the same time fundamental principles of policy and management remain as challenges if the true value of data as research assets is to be realised.
In the past few years many initiatives have started to address these issues globally and locally. National administrative bodies have started to define national data policies, global initiatives like DataCite and the World Data System (WDS) have been established and publishers have started to link data from their online journals.
The Strategic Coordinating Committee on Information and Data (SCCID) was established by the International Council for Science (ICSU) in 2009 to advice on the future organisation and direction of its activities in relation to scientific data and information. In its final report the committee gives 14 recommendations for the improvement of access and use of data for science.
The one day workshop will introduce attendees to the final SCCID report and present a global overview of initiatives and policy papers focused on the accessibility, management and re-use of data as scientific information. Topics will include global case studies from all stakeholders - data centres, publishers, libraries, policy makers, funding bodies and scientific organisations.
More details about the meeting and the outline programme which lists all the speakers is available on the ICSTI website Home Page/Events Page at www.icsti.org. The final programme with full speaker biographies, photos, presentation titles and abstracts will be made available soon.
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