Best practices in sharing data

Friday 17 March 2006
Tuke Room, Regent's College

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

10:00-10:15	Coffee and registration
10:15-10:25	Welcome and introduction
	Chair: Louise Corti, ESDS
10:25-11:00	Glorious but uncertain: the past, present, and future of social science data sharing in the United States
	Myron Gutmann, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
11:00-12:30	Around the councils: research council data sharing policies
	The social science arena: 40 years of sharing, UK Data Archive (UKDA)
	Melanie Wright, ESDS
	National Environment Research Council (NERC) data sharing policy
	Mark Thorley, NERC
	Curating biomedical research data for sharing and re-use
	Allan Sudlow, MRC
	Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
	Charlotte Capener, BBSRC
12:30-13:00	Discussion
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:20	Data management: best practice meets pragmatic approaches
	Alasdair Crockett, ESDS
14:20-15:50	Achievements in data sharing - four case studies
	Online access to repositories of survey data: Nesstar
	Margaret Ward, ESDS
	Massive data sharing in biomolecular science
	Graham Cameron, European Bioinformatics Institite (EBI)
	Using shared data from the British Antarctic Survey to make global predictions
	Mark Thorley, NERC
	AstroGrid: the UK's virtual observatory - enabling data access
	Nicholas Walton, AstroGrid Project Scientist
15:50-16:00	Discussion
16:00	Close