Symposium on Digital Curation in the Era of Big Data:
Career Opportunities and Educational Requirements
Board on Research Data and Information
National Research Council
Keck 100
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, D.C.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
AGENDA
Session 1—Why Is Digital Curation Important for Workforce and Economic Development?
Session Chair: Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Dean for Academic Programs, School of Information, University of Michigan
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8:30 |
Chair’s opening remarks—Margaret Hedstrom |
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8:35 |
Views of the sponsors |
| - Institute of Museum and Library Services—Susan Hildreth, Director | |
| - National Science Foundation—Alan Blatecky, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure | |
| - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation—Joshua Greenberg, Program Director | |
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9:05 |
Keynote: Digital Curation and Big Data—David Weinberger, Senior Researcher, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University |
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9:35 |
A Government Policy Perspective—Michael Stebbins, Assistant Director for Biotechnology, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy |
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9:50 |
National Science Foundation Policies About Information Access—Myron P. Gutmann, Assistant Director, Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences |
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10:05 |
Coffee break |
Session 2—Workforce Demand and Career Opportunities
Session Chair: Michael Goodchild, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
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10:30 |
Universities and Research Libraries—Anne Kenney, Director, Cornell University Library |
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10:45 |
Scientific Data Centers—Margarita Gregg, Director, National Oceanographic Data Center, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration |
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11:00 |
A Data Scientist Perspective—Vicki Ferrini, Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University |
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11:15 |
Entertainment Industry—Andy Maltz, Director, Science and Technology, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
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11:30 |
Panel Discussion |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
Session 3—Education and Training—Needs and Opportunities
Session Chair: Carole Palmer, Director of the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1:15 |
Digital Curation as a Core Competency—Elizabeth Liddy, Dean, School of Information, Syracuse University |
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1:30 |
Continuing Education—Nancy McGovern, Head, Curation and Preservation Services, MIT Library |
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1:45 |
Retooling the Existing Workforce—Steven Miller, Program Director, Skills & Community Information Management, IBM |
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2:00 |
Lessons Learned: the Case of Bioinformatics—Lawrence Hunter, Director, Center for Computational Pharmacology and Director, Computational Bioscience Program, University of Colorado, Denver |
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2:15 |
Education for Data Scientists—Michael Rappa, Founding Director, Institute of Advanced Analytics, North Carolina State University |
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2:30 |
Panel discussion |
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3:00 |
Coffee Break |
Session 4—Paths Forward
Session Chair: Lee Dirks, Director of Education and Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research
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3:30 |
Summary of Workforce and Education Issues (Chairs of Sessions 1, 2, and 3) |
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4:00 |
Plenary Discussion |
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4:45 |
Symposium Chair’s closing remarks—Margaret Hedstrom |
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5:00 |
End of meeting |
