21st International CODATA Conference

Conference Topics

Topics of the 21st International CODATA Conference include the following fields of interest (to be detalized):

Session 1. Scientific Data for Sustainable Development

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.

Session 2. 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.

Session 3. Infoscience and Computational informatics

Theory, models and methods of the 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 on science;

Preserving and digitizing legacy data.

Session 4. 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 and health;

Data security in Information and communication systems.

Session 5. 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 initiative;

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.

Session 6. 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 , global levels and 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.

Session 7. Biological Science, Medical and Health Data

Bioinformatics; Proteome Database; Genetic Data Issues;

Biodiversity; Access to Biological Collection Data

Risks Data of dangers for safely life (disasters, illnesses, etc.);

Measuring people and their health: scientific and ethical issues;

Organizing disaster and health risk in support of disaster management;

A challenge to scientific risk estimation on health effects of Chernobyl dose radiation.

Session 8. Physical Science Data

The Fundamental Constants: cross-disciplinary coordination and standards issues;

Materials science data and its multidisciplinary applications.

Gas Hydrates;

Informatics in energy resource management;

Managing Astronomical Data; Lessons learned in the development of virtual observatories.

Special session.

The Young Generation in a Scientific Data and Knowledge World

Clearly, young scientists may participate in any of the above-mentioned sections but, to facilitate direct communication a special session for young scientists will be held with reduced registration fees .
In addition to Key and Contributed sessions. Round Table Discussions on the Young Generation's contribution to Information Society Development as well as and World Distributed Data and Our Computing Future are planned.