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The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments:
A National Workshop

Washington, DC, March 10-11, 2011

Board on Research Data and Information in collaboration with Computer Science and Telecommunications Board National Academy of Sciences

MARCH 10 AGENDA
Day 1: Workshop

Venable, LLP, 8 West Conference Center
Capitol Room
575 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC

I. Opening Session
Session Chair: John King, University of Michigan
8:30 I.a Chair’s Welcoming Remarks John King, University of Michigan
8:40 I.b Opening Remarks by the Project Sponsors Sylvia Spengler and Alan Blatecky, Nat’l Science Foundation
9:00 I.c Keynote: An Overview of the State of the Art Tony Hey, Microsoft Research
II. Experiences with Developing Open Scientific Knowledge Discovery Environments and Using Them—Case Studies and Lessons Learned
    Session Chair: Sara Graves, University of Alabama at Huntsville
9:30

II.a Experiences with developing open scientific knowledge discovery in research and applications

Case studies:

- International online astronomy research

Alberto Conti, Space Telescope Sci. Institute
Suggested Citation:"5 Appendix: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18258.
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- Integrative genomic analysis: Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, WA (sagebase.org)

Stephen Friend, Sage Bionetworks

- Geoinformatics: Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery
(https://portal.leadproject.org/gridsphere/gridsphere)

Kelvin Droegemeier, University of Oklahoma
10:30 Break
10:50

II.b Implications of the three scientific knowledge discovery case studies—the user perspective

- International online astronomy research

Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University

- Integrative genomic analysis

Joel Dudley, Stanford University

- Geoinformatics

Mohan Ramamurthy, Unidata, UCAR
11:50

II.c Benefits and drawbacks of the three case studies--Panel Discussion of open scientific knowledge discovery system developers and users

Panelists: same 6 speakers as in II.a and II.b, plus session chair

12:30

Lunch in Venable cafeteria, 8th floor

III. How Might Open Online Knowledge Discovery Advance the Progress of Science?

13:30

III.a Technological factors
Session Chair: Hal Abelson, MIT

- Interoperability, standards, and linked data

James Hendler, RPI

- National technological needs and issues

Deborah Crawford, Drexel University
14:30

III.b Socio-cultural, institutional, and organizational factors
Session Chair: Michael Lesk, Rutgers University

- Socio-cultural dimensions

Clifford Lynch,
Suggested Citation:"5 Appendix: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18258.
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Coalition for Networked Information

- Institutional factors

Paul Edwards, University of Michigan
15:30 Break
15:50

III.c Policy and legal factors
Session Chair: Michael Carroll, Washington College of Law

- Legal aspects

Michael Madison, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

- Policy Issues

Gregory Jackson, EDUCAUSE
16:50

III.d How can we tell? What needs to be known and studied to improve potential for success?

Session Chair: Fran Berman, RPI

- Government perspective

Walter Warnick, Office of S&T Information, Department of Energy

- Academic perspective

Victoria Stodden, Columbia University Law School
17:50 Concluding Remarks John King, University of Michigan
17:55 Adjourn
Closed Session
18:15

Reception and working dinner for committee and speakers

Suggested Citation:"5 Appendix: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18258.
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The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments:
A National Workshop

Washington, DC, March 10-11, 2011

Board on Research Data and Information in collaboration with Computer Science and Telecommunications Board National Academy of Sciences

MARCH 11 AGENDA
Day 2: Workshop

National Academy of Sciences Keck Center
Room 100
500 Fifth Street NW, Washington, DC

I. Recap of Symposium Results and Discussion of Future Issues
Session Chair: Bonnie Carroll, Information International Associates Rapporteurs: Puneet Kishor, University of Wisconsin, and Alberto Pepe, Harvard

8:45

I.a Summary of Opportunities to Automated Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments

- Discussion to validate results from the symposium and identify issues in next 5-10 years

9:45

1.b Summary of the Barriers

- Discussion to validate results from the symposium and identify issues in next 5-10 years

10:45

Coffee Break

11:00

1.c Summary of Techniques and Methods for Development and Study of Automated Scientific Knowledge Discovery

- Discussion to validate results from the symposium and identify issues in next 5-10 years

12:00

Lunch in the Keck cafeteria

13:00

II. Range of Options for Further Research
Session Chair: John King, University of Michigan

Based on the results obtained in response to the preceding discussions, define a range of options that can be used by the sponsors of the project, as well as other similar organizations, to obtain and promote a better understanding of the computer-mediated scientific knowledge discovery processes and mechanisms for openly available data and information online across the scientific domains. The objective of defining these options is to improve the activities of the sponsors (and other similar

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organizations) and the activities of researchers that they fund externally in this emerging research area.

- Discussion

15:30

End of Meeting

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Digital technologies and networks are now part of everyday work in the sciences, and have enhanced access to and use of scientific data, information, and literature significantly. They offer the promise of accelerating the discovery and communication of knowledge, both within the scientific community and in the broader society, as scientific data and information are made openly available online. The focus of this project was on computer-mediated or computational scientific knowledge discovery, taken broadly as any research processes enabled by digital computing technologies. Such technologies may include data mining, information retrieval and extraction, artificial intelligence, distributed grid computing, and others. These technological capabilities support computer-mediated knowledge discovery, which some believe is a new paradigm in the conduct of research. The emphasis was primarily on digitally networked data, rather than on the scientific, technical, and medical literature. The meeting also focused mostly on the advantages of knowledge discovery in open networked environments, although some of the disadvantages were raised as well.

The workshop brought together a set of stakeholders in this area for intensive and structured discussions. The purpose was not to make a final declaration about the directions that should be taken, but to further the examination of trends in computational knowledge discovery in the open networked environments, based on the following questions and tasks:

1. Opportunities and Benefits: What are the opportunities over the next 5 to 10 years associated with the use of computer-mediated scientific knowledge discovery across disciplines in the open online environment? What are the potential benefits to science and society of such techniques?

2. Techniques and Methods for Development and Study of Computer-mediated Scientific Knowledge Discovery: What are the techniques and methods used in government, academia, and industry to study and understand these processes, the validity and reliability of their results, and their impact inside and outside science?

3. Barriers: What are the major scientific, technological, institutional, sociological, and policy barriers to computer-mediated scientific knowledge discovery in the open online environment within the scientific community? What needs to be known and studied about each of these barriers to help achieve the opportunities for interdisciplinary science and complex problem solving?

4. Range of Options: Based on the results obtained in response to items 1-3, define a range of options that can be used by the sponsors of the project, as well as other similar organizations, to obtain and promote a better understanding of the computer-mediated scientific knowledge discovery processes and mechanisms for openly available data and information online across the scientific domains. The objective of defining these options is to improve the activities of the sponsors (and other similar organizations) and the activities of researchers that they fund externally in this emerging research area.

The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments: Summary of a Workshop summarizes the responses to these questions and tasks at hand.

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