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Maybe of interest... -Jodi (via the DARIAH EU project) > > **************************************************************************** > **************************** > Meeting on Global Collaboration on Data Issues, Washington DC, 1. October > 2012 (in the realm of the DataNet 2012 Meeting) European Preparation Meeting > Munich/Garching, 24. September 2012 (in the realm of the iCORDI Kickoff) > **************************************************************************** > **************************** > > Dear colleagues, > > A worldwide interaction has been started to harmonize data access and > interoperability solutions in which various data practitioners from the US, > EU, Australia and other areas are already involved and which also includes > stakeholders such as NSF, the EC and other research agencies. Two acronyms > have been used for this broad bottom-up organized process: DAITF (Data > Access and Interoperability Task Force) and DWF (Data Web Forum) both > referring to the same intentions - yet it is not clear which name finally > will be used and how the governance structure will look like. A first > meeting with global participation took place in Copenhagen in March (see > www.daitf.org) with about 40 experts from many areas of the world. The > meetings indicated above are follow-ups of the Copenhagen meeting. > > We are moving towards the next global meetings: > 1) The first follow-up meeting will take place in Washington DC at 1. > October > 2) We will need to start planning the next follow up meeting which will take > place in Europe (probably in March 2013, location needs to be determined). > > Since we cannot expect that many European experts will have the funds to go > to the Washington meeting we will organize a "European" preparation meeting > in Munich/Garching at 24. September. > > It should be added that there will be a BOF session about the establishment > of a world-wide PID infrastructure based on Handles in Vancouver at the IETF > meeting (30.7.2012). Some may be interested to go to Vancouver and as you > may know IETF meetings are open. > > We are almost ready to start an open discussion about the topics that should > be dealt with in the Washington and Munich meetings. Since this is a > bottom-up driven process, everyone registered will be invited very soon to > motivate a special BOF session (startup brainstorming). Please use the web > site (www.daitf.org) to find the most recent information about the events - > it will be updated coming week. > > In Copenhagen we have established a preliminary Steering Group to coordinate > these bottom-up activities until we have a smoothly running governance > structure. We decided to use the simple "www.daitf.org" web-site to organize > our activities in the first phase. > > The Washington and Munich meeting should be open to everyone interested > although we will have restrictions defined by the rooms we will be using. > The discussion about special BOF sessions and Working Group sessions about > selected high-priority topics will be opened probably coming week as well. > > Please, visit the DAITF web-Site (www.daitf.org) to find last information. > To get access to the discussion forum you have to register. Please, send an > email to [log in to unmask] to get access. > > We hope on your active participation at least in the Munich meeting and that > some will go to Washington. > > best regards > Peter Wittenburg > > The Language Archive > Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD Nijmegen, > The Netherlands > http://www.mpi.nl/tla > http://www.eudat.eu > [log in to unmask] > +31 24 3521 175