On 21 and 22 September 2009 PARSE.insight organises a workshop on Preservation, Access and Re-use of Scientific Data. This workshop, to be attended on personal invitation only, will be held in Darmstadt (Germany).

The workshop is a follow-up to the grand scale survey on Digital Preservation carried out several months ago. Based on thousands of responses from stakeholders such as researchers, librarians, publishers and funders/ policymakers, the outcomes of the survey will be explained during this event. Aim of the workshop is to get to actionable steps and helping to determine via interaction between all stakeholders these next steps in the areas of preservation, access and re-use of scientific (in the broadest sense) data. This workshop aims at refining our policy advice to the EU by obtaining the views and ideas of key stakeholders.

One of the key findings in the Parse survey has been a broad recognition of threats to preservation and re-use. A draft Roadmap has been produced which outlines a number of additional components for the e-research infrastructure to counter these threats. An initial analysis has been undertaken to determine the gaps between the ideal situation and what is currently in place or is planned to be in place in the near term. We need to revise the roadmap through feedback from attendees to the workshop, supported by information about the evidence about the threats and details and prototypes about the roadmap components.

Related documents

• Offical programme (PDF)
• Offical report -> COMING SOON
• List of participants (PDF)
• See also our page on publications

Venue

Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Haus
Dieburger Strasse 241
64287 Darmstadt
Germany
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Accommodation

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Programme

Day 1: Monday 21 September 2009

Time	Presentation	Speaker
09:30	Coffee and croissants
10:30	Welcome and introduction
10:45	Scientific Data as a basic e-infrastructure for e-Science: an overview of European activities	Carlos Morais Pires (European Commission)
11:30	Overview of PARSE.Insight: context, objectives, results so far	David Giaretta (STFC)
12:00	Community Insight - approach and overview of results	Jeffrey van der Hoeven (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
13:00	Lunch
13:45	Parallel group discussion sessions about what has been missed and has been got right
14:45	Case Study - High Energy Physics	Salvatore Mele (CERN)
15:05	Case Study - Social Sciences and Humanities	Sabine Schrimpf (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)
15:25	Case Study - Earth Observation	Vincenzo Beruti (ESA ESRIN)
15:45	Coffee break
16:00	Parallel group discussion sessions about commonalities and differences between disciplines
17:00	Feedback plenary session
17:30	Social event
20:00	Dinner

At the end of the first day a shuttle bus is organised to transfer you from the Conference room to the city center and later on to the restaurant:
17:30h Conference room - City Center
19:30h City Center - Restaurant
23:00h Restaurant - City Center

Day 2: Tuesday 22 September 2009

Time	Presentation	Speaker
09:00	Piloting an E-journals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS)	Peter Burnhill (EDINA)
09:30	Threats and outline of the Roadmap	David Giaretta (STFC)
10:15	Parallel group discussion sessions about technical solutions
11:15	Coffee break
11:30	Preservation, access and re-use of research data. A publisher's Perspective	Joep Verheggen (Elsevier)
12:00	Parallel group discussion sessions about non-technical solutions
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Feedback plenary session
14:30	Gap analysis: Concept, methodology and initial ideas	Moritz Gomm, Bjorn Werkmann (Fernuniversitat in Hagen)
15:15	Coffee break
15:30	Parallel group discussion sessions: "Gaps and how to fill them"
16:15	Final plenary discussions and plans on how to take things forward
17:00	End of the programme