Making Data Accessible to All

Deadline for registration: 15 June and places are limited 

Plant scientists are often required to donate data to open access databases (for instance, by the BBSRC data management policy). They are also encouraged to make use of these databases in order to boost their research and speed up discovery. It is not yet clear, however, whether and how these practices are affecting experimentation within the plant sciences, and whether data donation and use on a large scale has been effective in fostering innovative research. The focus of this workshop is to discuss issues surrounding data donation, data use and publication from the viewpoint of plant biologists; and it offers a unique opportunity to engage with key publishers and funders around this issues.

Programme

Thursday 12th July 2012

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch and registration
13:00 – 13:30 Introduction (Sabina Leonelli and Ruth Bastow)

Session 1: Data donation, analysis and use (Chair: Ruth Bastow)
13:30-14:00 Andrew Millar (Edinburgh) “Creating, leveraging and sustaining public data (and more) with uncertain funding”
14:00-14:30 Nick Smirnoff (Exeter) “Accessing and using metabolomics data”
14:30-15:00 Jay Moore (Warwick) “From bench to web, via spreadsheets:practical data sharing in research groups”
15:00-15:30 Jacob Newman (UEA) “Sharing Data with Omero”
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/coffee
16:00 – 17:30 Discussion session: how are publicly accessible data being used? (Chair: Cathie Martin - editor of Plant Cell)

Friday 13th July 2012

Session 2: Curating and publishing data (Chair: Steve Hughes)
9:00-9:20 Mary Traynor (editor of Journal of Experimental Botany), “Providing more actionable data associated with articles”
9:20-9:40 Gilles Jonker (Executive Publisher for Agronomy at Elsevier), “Connecting Scientific Articles with Research Data”
9:40-10:00 Ruth Wilson (publisher at Nature Publishing Group), “Integrating Research Data and Publications”
10:00-10:20 Mark Hahnel (founder of Figshare) "Getting credit for all of your research"
10:20-10:40 Claire Bird (Senior Publisher, Life Sciences, Oxford Journals) “What role can publishers play in managing data?”
10:40 – 11:00 Tea/coffee

Session 3: Data curation and management (Chair: Sabina Leonelli)
11:00-11:20 Sean May (NASC) “NASC: Reciprocal CTRL-ALTruism”
11:20-11:40 David Swarbreck (TGAC) "Data Deluge - A bioinformatics centre's perspective"
11:40-12:00 Alain Pottage (London School of Economics) “Traces of a botanical economy; on the regulation of collecting”
12:00-12:20 Peter Burlinson (BBSRC) “Data sharing: a perspective from the BBSRC”
12:20-12:40 General Discussion
12:40 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Final discussion: the impact of data dissemination on plant science research

The registration form can be found at the workshop webpage: