Sharing Research Data: Pioneers, Policies and Protocols

Friday 13 March 2009

Park Crescent Conference Centre, London, W1W 5PN

PROGRAMME

9.45-10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00-10.15	Welcome and introduction Louise Corti, Associate Director, UK Data Archive Chair, Louise Corti
10.15-10.40	UK Government Data Sharing Review: findings and next steps Mark Walport, Director, Wellcome Trust
10.40-11.00	European Infrastructure for data sharing in the social sciences Hilary Beedham, CESSDA Project Manager, UK Data Archive
11.00-11.20	Research Information Network: to share or not to share - publishing research data Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd.
11.20-11.35	Coffee
11.35-13.00	UK funders data sharing policies, implementation strategies and progress Data sharing - an ESRC perspective Sian Bourne, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Data management in NERC: the challenges to be faced Mark Thorley, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) MRC data sharing and preservation: from policy to strategy Peter Dukes, Medical Research Council (MRC) Update on the implementation of BBSRC Data Sharing Policy David McAllister, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Data Management and Sharing: Wellcome Trust policy and current activities David Carr, Wellcome Trust Discussion
13.00-13.45	Lunch
13.45-14.45	Chair, Libby Bishop, UK Data Archive Research support services: data management guidance Louise Corti, Associate Director, UK Data Archive MRC Data Support Service (DSS) Project Dipak Kalra, University College London Chris Morris, The Seventh Cat Ltd The UK Research Data Service Jean Sykes, UK Research Data Service (UKRDS) project
14.45-15.25	Archiving and dissemination: standards and technology for sharing Security implications for data sharing Melanie Wright, Associate Director, UK Data Archive Practical sharing of environmental molecular data Bela Tiwari, NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre
15.25-15.45	Discussion and close