Peter Arzberger

Activities

•Web and e-mail Surveys:

–Data Sharing Policies

•Case Studies:

–Specifics

•European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

•European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

•fMRI Data Center (Dartmouth, New Hampshire)

•Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and biodiversity science

–Committee’s contacts

•Dissemination and Input:

–Publications: D-Lib Magazine

–Web Site: http://dataaccess.ucsd.edu

–Presentations (CODATA, GRV IV, Society for Social Studies of Science Conference)


	* Two studies on the international state of affairs by Paul Wouters from the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI):
	- a Quick Scan of the current relevant regulation on data sharing as formalised and practised by a selection of research organisations in the United States.
	- a 'Mini Survey' of the member organisations of ESF, and similar organisations in Japan, Australia and Canada) to define the issues in data sharing currently felt as most urgent in the other OECD countries. (published in March and September 2002.)

	* The start of a research project combining scientific research and policy research into data-sharing (treating ao. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility GBIF) by Geof Bowker and Kathleen Casey (University of California, San Diego) funded by NSF. It treats the subject from the viewpoint of science policy as well as from a social informatics perspective.(The Report shall be finalised in Spring 2003.)

	* The start of two NIWI follow up studies:
	- A study by Colin Reddy on data policies and management at the international ‘Big Science’ organisations CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) subsidiary of EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).
	- A study by Anne Beaulieu on the role of inter-collegial trust in data sharing in the practice of small scale data sets at the fMRI Data Center in Dartmouth, New Hampshire; (To be published finished by the end of September 2002.)