MoRST event on Publicly-Funded Research Data

Hi All

I am delighted to be able to alert you all to the launch of MoRST's Policy
Statement on Environmental Data Management, which you can find here:
http://www.morst.govt.nz/edm

The statement is the product of a significant effort over the last two years,
and we want to acknowledge the signficant contribution many of you have made.
MoRST is eager to build on this significant achievement.

We're already working with the research, science and technology sector and its
stakeholders to build encouragements for better data management into New
Zealand’s RS&T system (see Part 1 of the Policy Statement).  We are
investigating the opportunities offered by the changes taking place in the
science system, including the changes to CRIs, the National e-Research
Infrastructure Strategy, and the Large-Scale Research Infrastructure strategy.

The implementation of the Environmental Data Management Policy Statement over
the coming months will be a prototype that will provide valuable experiences to
all players, informing MoRST's future data management work with other science
sectors.

* In the near term, MoRST and the Foundation for Research, Science and
Technology will co-host an environmental data management practitioners’
workshop in late August / early September this year.

Its focus will be determined soon, but it's likely to be about creating a
practical framework that empowers players – particularly the practitioner
community - to take collective leadership on environmental data management.
We'll be making best use of technology so that key participants can be involved
with the minimum expense.

This will be an invitation-only workshop; if you are interested in taking part
or want to suggest someone else who should, please get in touch:
isabella[dot]cawthorn[at]morst[dot]govt[dot]nz.

If you have other questions about the Environmental Data Management Policy
Statement please get in touch.  Information on MoRST's related work.
http://www.morst.govt.nz/current-work/Science-Infrastructure-and-Data-Management/

Hi All!

We are looking forward to today's Environment Data Management Practitioners'
Workshop.  We will be:
 - Learning about the leading edge of environmental research data management
from pracitioners at the coal-face who are doing it well

 - Sharing experiences and the lessons we've learned to help improve policy,
performance measures, and funding opportunities for the whole sector

 - Helping inform an environment sector wide view on what good management of
environmental science data looks like, what's important, and what's not -
building some specifics onto the broad directions from MoRST's July "Data
Matters" symposium

 - Providing input into a set of performance measures and indicators for
environmental research data management to be rolled out through funding, policy
and planning - building practical structure for the government’s expectation
for better data management

 - Thinking creatively about the cross cutting, national level services,
systems and middleware that could be provided to support environmental research
data management in New Zealand - with our conclusions taken to the National
e-Research Symposium's environment workshop.

The workshop will be facilitated by Julian Carver with Web 2.0 support from Tim
McNamara.
If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of the workshop - and even
participate - by Twitter, we will be using the hashtag #edmnz .

If you wish to watch the session by videoconference, we have a meeting on the
KAREN bridge (details below).

The outputs from this workshop will be sent out later this week.


KAREN connection details:

Meeting Subject: Environmental data management practitioners workshop
Meeting ID: 6948
Date: 10/04/2010
Time: 09:00 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
Duration: 08:30

To connect from your desktop, go to
http://sds.karen.net.nz/scopia?ID=6948&autojoin.
For other options including connecting with presentation only or watching the
webcast, go to http://sds.karen.net.nz/scopia?ID=6948.
We recommend you install the desktop client beforehand. To install the client,
go to http://sds.karen.net.nz/scopia?client.

There are several ways to connect to the KAREN Video Bridge. Please see below
which one best suits your needs.

To connect from an H.323 IP Endpoint, please dial 130.195.23.14. Enter the
corresponding number to the left of your meeting name in the navigation menu
using Touch Tones (DTMF), or press 0 and enter: 6948

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