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Checking In
Check-in will begin by 8:00am on Thursday, October 23. Hot and cold breakfast will be available 8:00-9:00am on both mornings.
Program
The program will begin at 9am on Thursday and finish by 2pm on Friday. The detailed agenda is still be finalized; highlights include:
Keynote Speaker
Per Oster to present the EUDAT project
Refining our Vision
Invited talks include
- Bob Hanisch (NIST) on NIST, MGI and the NDS
- Ed Seidel (NCSA) on the evolution of the NDS
- Kathy Fontaine (Managing Director of RDA/US) on the RDA and the NDS
- Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (UIUC) on the shared vision of success
This session will also include open and facilitated discussion of the NDS mission.
Data Repositories and Interoperability
In this session, we want to look at issues of interoperability from the perspective of data repositories and data management systems. Invited talks include:
- Jane Greenberg (Drexel University) on the Dryad project.
- the Dataverse federated repository system
- Beth Plale (Indiana University) on services and architecture for interoperability from the RDA
Breakout Discussion
Break-out and small group discussions are planned on various topics, including
- NDS Consortium Governance
- Identifying fundable projects and partners
- Architectural Issues