The Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) at the National Academies is presenting a Symposium on Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Network Environments in Washington DC on March 10, 2011. You can find the agenda and other background materials at

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/brdi/PGA_060422

This promises to be an extremely interesting day, and there are some wonderful speakers (full disclosure: I’m thrilled to be part of one of the afternoon panels). The Symposium is free and open to the public, but advanced registration is requested.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

Some of the very interesting recent developments in citizen science are covered in the excellent recent report by Liz Lyon of UKOLN titled Open Science at Web Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential, which is available for download at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/opensciencerpt.aspx.