Research Data Management Implementations
Workshop funded by the National Science Foundation
Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington VA
We
are pleased to announce the NSF funded workshop on
"Research Data Management Implementations" (RDMI).
The
objective of this workshop is to bring together research
computing communities including researchers, campus
information technology (IT) leaders, library/archive
specialists, and leading experts in data management to
discuss actual implementation architectures as they
relate to discipline-specific workflows and deployments.
This workshop will build on the results of the NSF
funded Research Data Lifecycle Management Workshop held
at Princeton University in 2011. RDMI will shift focus
to implementations of solutions and encourage open
discussion of available strategies for data management
in specific fields based on actual case studies.
The
workshop is held in conjunction with the Coalition for
Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) Spring Meeting,
held March 13-15, 2013.
We
now seek applications for participation and submissions
of position papers for the workshop. In order to apply,
please go to https://rdmi.uchicago.edu/
and follow the left hand navigation to register to
attend the workshop in Arlington or via live webcast.
The deadline for applications and paper submissions is
February 20, 2013, but we will accept applications and
papers on a rolling basis. There is no cost to register
for this workshop. We also encourage reserving hotel
rooms at the conference hotel as soon as possible, as
there are a limited number of rooms, with a February 6th
deadline to reserve at conference rates.
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Paper
submission and registration deadline: February 20, 2013
(but accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis)
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Deadline to
receive discounted hotel room rate: February 6, 2013
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Workshop
dates: March 13-14, 2013
The
deluge of data generated from experiments, observations
and simulations creates many challenges for researchers.
Adequate data management implementations are becoming
critical due to the need to not only collect and analyze
large volumes of raw data, but also to store and curate
that data in ways that facilitate its retrieval and
analysis in future studies. As data collections grow in
size and complexity, so too does the computing
infrastructure needed to support them. Technologies used
to create and study data collections are also evolving
rapidly. Even when provided with best practices,
researchers typically lack the expertise and the
hardware and software infrastructure required to
implement these solutions. Further complicating the data
management process is the fact that these processes
often depend on domain specific workflows. Establishing
and efficiently executing these data management
processes can demand substantial time and resources that
most researchers do not have or cannot easily acquire.
Researchers need turn-key (but customizable) solutions
and community accepted practices to solve their data
management problems.
This
workshop will bring together research computing
communities and leading experts in data management to
discuss actual implementation architectures as they
relate to discipline-specific workflows and
deployments. We will invite
submission of position and experience papers that
describe implementations of discipline-based data
management infrastructure and services, and the ways in
which those solutions leverage resources within and
outside their institutions. The workshop will also
engage participants in a discussion of how a coordinated
effort among research computing centers may accelerate
the implementation of effective research data management
workflows, and contribute to national efforts and
initiatives.
On-site participation
will be limited to approximately seventy-five
leaders. In addition, video-conferencing will be used
to reach a much broader range of off-site
participants. We hope to engage a diverse population
of researchers and professionals involved in research
data lifecycle management to represent varying
perspectives and differing institutions in the
conversation.
We strongly encourage submission of position
papers. The papers will help to gather input from a
broad community to seed the conversations at the
workshop. Position papers should be 2-5 pages, and can
be submitted as described on the registration website
any time from now through February 20, 2013 at
5pmCST.
This NSF funded workshop is in collaboration between
the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation
(CASC), and will be hosted at the Westin Arlington
Gateway Hotel in Arlington, VA Wednesday, March 13 -
Thursday, March 14, 2013. The workshop will include a
reception and dinner at the Westin Hotel on Wednesday,
March 13th at 6:30pmEST. The findings of the workshop
will be described in a report made available following
the workshop.
Please feel free to contact the organizing committee
by email if you have any questions, concerns, or
suggestions at [log in to unmask].
RDMI Organizing Committee
Hakizumwami Birali Runesha – Chair
Director of
Research Computing, The University of Chicago
Manager, Research Computing Services,
Columbia University
Julio Facelli
Professor and Interim Chair of
Biomedical Informatics, Director Center for High
Performance Computing, The University of Utah
Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished
Service Professor: Department of Computer Science;
Director: Computation Institute; Distinguished
Fellow: MCS Division, Argonne, The University of
Chicago
Thomas Furlani
Director Center for Computational Research,
Interim Associate Vice President for Information
Technology, University of Buffalo
Chief Technology Officer – Research
Computing, Stanford University
