| Clifford Lynch Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information |
The National Research Council (NRC) established the Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) in 2008 with the mission “to improve the management, policy, and use of digital data and information for science and the broader society.” As BRDI begins its second term of membership, with Francine Berman (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Clifford Lynch (CNI) serving as co-chairs, the major activities in the near term will include: a consensus study on the future career opportunities and educational requirements for digital curation, an international data attribution and citation initiative, a sustainability study on publicly funded research databases, an international symposium on intellectual property rights in scientific databases, and of course the continuing meetings of the Board itself. This session will provide an update and overview of the Board’s recent and planned activities, including the February 2012 Forum on CODATA-World Data Systems Cooperation.