PREPARDE Events

Date(s)	Meeting	Title / Web Link	Where	Who attending	Notes
17-21 Sep 2012	NCEO / CEOI	National Centre for Earth Observation & Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation Joint Science Meeting	Nottingham (UK)	RL	referenced in RL talk
28-31 Oct 2012	CODATA	CODATA 23: Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet	Taipei (Taiwan, China)	FM	FM invited talk in data pub strand
11-12 Nov 2012	Science Online	Science Online 2012	Wellcome, London (UK)	JT, SC	JT to co-lead  data publication session with Brian Hole (PRIME/JoAD) & S.Hodson (JISC) on 12 Nov
28-30 Nov 2012	ACRE	5th ACRE Workshop	Météo-France, Toulouse	SC? JT?	major discussion on all aspects of the current situation with historical terrestrial and marine weather and climate data rescue, imaging, digitisation, QC, archiving, access, sustainability etc
3-7 Dec 2012	AGU	American Geophysical Union	San Francisco, CA (US)	FM, SC, JT, MM	Town Hall Title: TH32F. Publishing Research Data: Peer Review, Data Center Accreditation, and Linking ,Data publication is an increasingly important mechanism for incentivising the sharing of research data. The PREPARDE (Peer Review for Publication & Accreditation of Research Data in the Earth sciences) is working with academic institutions, learned societies, data centers and commercial publishers to investigate barriers and drivers to data publishing and sharing, peer review, and re-use of geoscientific datasets. This town hall meeting will provide an overview of the project’s progress to date and invite input from anyone interested in developing long-term sustainable policies, processes, incentives and business models for managing  and publishing research data. The publishers and Board Members of the Geoscience Data Journal will also be available for informal discussions.
6-10 Jan 2013	AMS / ASLI	American Meteorological Society / Atmospheric Science Librarians International	Austin, TX (US)	FM, MM	Transforming Research Communication: Knowledge Management and Data Publishing"

  Due to multiple pressures – including funding resources, technical developments and policy priorities – the scholarly communication ecosystem is changing. This is inevitably causing pressures to bear not only on researchers themselves but also their fellow stakeholders: funders, publishers, data centers and libraries. Innovations in instrumentation, collection methods, software and modelling are contributing to output but we are not necessarily developing equal proficiency in managing said outputs. Accordingly, research data and datasets – their collection, curation, storage, citation and re-use – have been identified as crucial to the progression of useful knowledge, so they need to be satisfactorily integrated into the research canon.  

This presentation outlines recent developments in research data publishing thought and practice with particular emphasis on the Opportunities for Data Exchange (ODE) project and on potential opportunities for libraries. It uses the new title Geoscience Data Journal as a particularly relevant case study for this audience – in terms of subject matter, partnerships – and the ongoing related research project PREPARDE (Peer REview for Publication & Accreditation of Research Data in the Earth sciences). The latter aims to develop the required workflows, guidelines, policies and educative support to encourage and optimize best practice in all aspects of the research data life-cycle. These aspects include deposition in an accredited repository, peer review, publication and the encouragement to re-use. Feedback from the audience on these aims would be most welcome as engagement and involvement with stakeholders are key PREPARDE objectives.

14-16 Jan 2013	IDCC13	International Digital Curation Conference	Amsterdam (NL)	AW, JT, SC	Pre workshop re accreditation of repositories proposed, deadline 21.9.12 (AW lead) + poster (JT) + extended abstract submitted (SC)
7-12 April 2013	EGU	European Geosciences Union	Vienna (Austria)	FM? SC?	proposals deadline 14.9.12