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6th National Data Service Consortium Workshop

  • October 19–21, 2016
  • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Our theme is New Frontiers in Data Discovery: Collaboration with Research Libraries.

This is the sixth in our series of workshops aimed at building a national infrastructure for sharing, publishing, and re-using data. The NDS is an emerging vision for how scientists and researchers across all disciplines can find, reuse, and publish data. It builds on the archiving and sharing efforts already underway within specific communities and institutions and links them together with a common set of tools designed around search, publish, link and reuse capabilities. The NDS is a synergistic activity to the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and strives to provide infrastructure and software implementations, especially for RDA pilots. This fall's workshop's focus is on the role of research libraries and their priorities within a national data strategy context.

Venue: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburg, PA 

  • Specification of value propositions for research libraries as potential goals for the National Data Service
  • Identification of synergies and support models between NDS and research libraries
  • Identification targeted data services relevant to libraries with potential for development with NDS resources and additional support
Specification of value propositions for research libraries as potential goals for the National Data Service

Identification of synergies and support models between NDS and research libraries

Identification targeted data services relevant to libraries with potential for development with NDS resources and additional support

Venue: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburg, PA

10:00 am
NDS Labs Tutorials: Intro to Workbench, Docker, etc.
Noon
Lunch
12:30 pm
Tutorials (continued)
Advanced NDS, Interoperability Task Force
2:30 pm
Community Developer Input — Kenton McHenry, Kandace Turner
3:00 pm
Coffee available
3:00 pm
NDS Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Combined NDS Executive Committee and NDS Steering Committee Planning Meeting

Venue: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburg, PA

8:00 am
Breakfast / Registration
9:00 am
Plenary Session
University Welcome — Gary Fedder
PSC Welcome — Ralph Roskies
NDS Welcome — Bob Hanisch, Christine Kirkpatrick
9:15 am
NDS Update
9:30 am
Rules of Engagement — Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
10:10 am
iSchools Transform: Data Driven Trailblazers — Jane Greenberg, Drexel U
10:40 am
Discussion — Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
11:00 am
Break
12:05 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Updates & Demos
  • NDS Labs/Workbench — Kenton McHenry
  • Interoperability Task Force — Jim Myers
  • Library Focus with NDS Labs — Kenton McHenry
2:30 pm
Discussion — Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Interactive Break Out Groups: Exploratory/Stakeholder Alignment
  • Value Proposition for Libraries
  • High Value Services and Synergies for Libraries and NDS
  • Emergent Topic(s)
4:30 pm
Report outs, themes emerged for day
5:00 pm
Adjourn

Venue: Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and Carnegie Mellon University's (CMU) Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburg, PA

8:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Welcome Back — Kandace Turner
Check-in and Questions from the Previous Day — Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
9:15 am
Plenary Session: Pilot and Synergistic Project Updates
  • SBGrid (10)
  • Whole Tale (10)
  • NDS Collaboration Summary (15)
Bringing Visibility to Food Security Data Results: Harvests of PRAGMA and RDA — Quan (Gabriel) Zhou, Indiana U
10:15 am
Break
10:30 am
Micah Altman, MIT
11:00 am
Interactive Break Out Groups: Building Consensus
  • Pilot Project Experience
  • Libraries and Special Topics (health information, employment information, education information, etc.)
  • Emergent Topics
12:15 pm
Pilot Projects and Next Step Planning for NDS (summing up of assignments)
  • Pilot Process Overview
  • NDS7 Preview — Christine Kirkpatrick, Kenton McHenry
1:00 pm
Adjourn (box lunches available)

Registration is now open! Register today.

Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburg, PA

Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
4500 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2612

Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center

Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center
400 Lytton Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412.682.6200
Block Code: 10176841PS
Deadline: Tuesday, October 4
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