The European Union, as well as many national funding bodies, are creating infrastructures to support European research in particular and European development in general. Many of the building blocks are in place or are close to full scale deployment. PARSE.Insight is an EU-funded project which is helping to develop the policy to determine the next steps in the areas of preservation, access and re-use of scientific (in the broadest sense) data.

We are therefore pleased to invite you to the symposium PARSE.Insight - carrying the flame forward. The aim of the symposium is to review the results of our extensive, world-wide, surveys and case studies, as well as the updated Roadmap, but more importantly we wish to map out, with your help, what comes next.

Things are beginning to move very fast:

• the call from Luxembourg on digital preservation recently closed;
• the call from the e-Infrastructures unit is coming out from Brussels;
• the EU is looking at a framework for certification of digital repositories;
• the High Level Expert Group on Science data Infrastructures will report later in the year;
• we look forward to what will be demanded by FP8.

  The PARSE.Insight results provide timely and key information on which to launch future work. This symposium will be one of the first steps to take this forward.

  The symposium will be held in Paris, at the Intercontinental Paris-Le Grand, on Friday 25th June. Registration and coffee will start at 10am.

  Why should I attend?

  The symposium will build on the insights gained during our large scale research into digital preservation of research output in Europe. This addrseses survey results, interviews and three indepth case studies in various disciplines. A roadmap has been created to outline the steps to take to build a science data infrastructure. Gaps between real world and future projection are identified and analysed. See our section on publications. Overall, the symposium will picture:

  • the scene before PARSE.Insight;
  • what we learned from PARSE.Insight;
  • which gaps still exist;
  • the way forward using the PARSE.Insight roadmap as a guide for the future.

  Official programme

  Download the official programme.

  PARSE.Insight symposium: carrying the flame forward

  Time	Presentation	Speaker/lead
  10:00	Registration and coffee
  10:30	Keynote address	Carlos Morais-Pires (EU)
  11:00	The scene before PARSE.Insight	Salvatore Mele (CERN), David Giaretta (STFC)
  11:30	What we learnt from PARSE.Insight	Jeffrey van der Hoeven (KB), Salvatore Mele (CERN), Veronica Guidetti (ESA ESRIN), Sabine Schrimpf (DNB)
  12:30	Lunch
  13:30	Gap Analysis	Holger Brocks (FUH)
  14:00	Science data preservation infrastructure roadmap	David Giaretta (STFC)
  14:30	Updates from other initiatives	Mirko Albani (ESA)
  15:00	Coffee
  15:30	Audit and certification: towards an ecology of repositories	Simon Lambert (STFC)
  16:00	The way forward: round-table discussion
  17:00	Summing up
  17:30	End of programme

  Venue

  Intercontinental Paris-Le Grand
  2 Rue Scribe
  Paris, 75442
  France
  

  Accommodation

  Rooms can be booked at the Intercontinental - Le Grand as well but are expensive. Other accommodations can be found via booking sites.