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National Academies Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Discovery, March 10, 2011,DC

joan — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:49:14 +0000

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

Liz Lyon’s ‘Open Science’ talk at CNI now on video

diane — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:29:55 +0000

A video recording of the CNI 2010 Spring Membership Meeting closing plenary session is now available for streaming or downloading. Liz Lyon’s presentation Codes, Clouds and Constellations: Open Science in the Data Decade can be accessed from:

YouTube

or Vimeo, at
http://www.vimeo.com/11242487

More videos from the spring 2010 meeting will be announced shortly. All CNI-produced videos are available from the CNI channels at http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo and at http://vimeo.com/channels/cni . Subscribe to either channel feed to receive automatic updates when new material is available.

Report on Open Science

joan — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:52:30 +0000

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.…