CODATA 2010 Cape Town

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CODATA 2010 Cape Town
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CODATA 2010 Cape Town
Début : Oct 24 2010
Fin : Oct 27 2010
Site : www.codata2010.com
Ville : Le Cap
Pays : Afrique du Sud
Dates importantes
Date limite soumissions : 9 June 2010
Notification : 14 May 2010
Évènement en série : Conférence CODATA

22nd CODATA International Conference, 24-27th October 2010, Cape Town - South Africa

"Scientific Information for Society: Scientific Data and Sustainable Development"

Information scientifique pour la société : données scientifiques et développement durable

Sujets abordés par la conférence

Les données de la science pour le développement durable
  • Information society and innovations
  • Data sources, criteria, and models for sustainable development
  • New directions in international scientific data coordination: the role of ICSU and its interdisciplinary bodies
  • Building a community of data scientists: promise and pitfalls
  • Preservation of and access to scientific & technical data in developing countries
  • International social science data archives: models, policies, & principles
  • External threats to freedom of access
  • Crossing the digital divide: recent progress in improving data management in the developing world
  • Role and operation of data centers and data services in the future
  • Panel on issues and concerns of data-oriented young scientists and curricula in data management and informatics
e-Science and e-Science Networks
  • International multi-disciplinary large data projects for science and education and for business applications; Global scientific data sharing and application
  • Regional and global e-science and cyberinfrastructure developments
  • Grid infrastructure and standards for resource sharing across networks and institutions
  • Advanced cluster computing algorithms for data processing in computational fluid dynamics, structural crash analysis, MEMS design, financial modeling, factory scheduling, etc.
  • Advanced distributed data processing methods for science and engineering applications
Infoscience and Computational informatics
  • Theory, models and methods relating to distributed data processing and archiving
  • New approaches to data transfer, storage and processing
  • Long-term data stewardship and digital preservation: institutional approaches and technical concerns
  • Data ICT and applications
  • Role of data for promoting public understanding of science
  • Preserving and digitizing legacy data
Data Mining/Knowledge Management
  • Enhancing the transformation of data to knowledge
  • Artificial Intelligence applications in science - based decision-making
  • Developing community databases: lessons from biodiversity, geochemistry, neurology, health, and other disciplines
  • Data security in information and communication systems
interoperability and Data Integration
  • Interoperability of heterogeneous data systems on materials, environments, human sciences and other fields
  • Development of open access, data commons, information commons and open culture: building links between regional, disciplinary, and interdisciplinary initiatives
  • Addressing linguistic barriers to scientific data integration and application
  • Data assimilation approaches and the role of interoperability standards in modeling and simulation applications
  • Human science integration and its synthetic research methodology
  • New frontiers in human science data integration
Earth and Environmental Data
  • Sensor webs and networks for real-time monitoring and analysis
  • The emerging global earth observing system of systems: technical and policy issues
  • Implementing geospatial data infrastructures: progress at local, national and global levels as well as in geoscience data management
  • Polar Year data policy and management
  • Strategy for IPY data management based on the scientific questions formulated in the IPY 2007-2008 Science Plan
  • Special needs of the social sciences, the Education, Outreach and Communications Plan, and the general public
  • Organizational data flow structure (including procedures of access, transmission and archival of data )
  • Progress and problems in geoscience data management for the I*Ys
  • Role of data in climate change mitigation and adaptation
Biological Science, Medical and Health Data
  • Bioinformatics; Proteome Database; Genetic Data Issues
  • Biodiversity; Observation and Specimen Records (Access to Biological Collection Data)
  • Risks Data for safety (disasters, illnesses, etc.)
  • Measuring people and their health: scientific and ethical issues
  • Organizing disaster and health risk in support of disaster management
Physical Science Data
  • The Fundamental Constants: cross-disciplinary coordination and standards issues
  • Materials science data and their multidisciplinary applications
  • Gas Hydrates
  • Informatics in energy resource management
  • Managing Astronomical Data : Lessons learned in their development

Comité de programme