AGENDA FOR RESEARCH SECTOR TRANSPARENCY BOARD MEETING

THURSDAY 8 MAY 2014, 1030-1230

MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ROOM B, 7TH FLOOR, BIS, 1 VICTORIA STREET

ITEM / TIME
1.  Welcome / 1030-1035
2.  Update on current Open Research Data activities in the UK.
Updates will be used as a basis for discussion on item 3.
Speakers:
-  Nick Wright Russell Group / Update on working group for Open Research Data covering:
·  Planned pilots in different disciplines.
·  Discoverability for Open Research Data.
·  Sharing best practice in research data management.
·  Decision Tree (what data should be open and when). / 1035-1040
-  Nicola Perrin Wellcome Trust / ·  Data sharing policy, infrastructural and cultural barriers to data sharing.
·  Initiatives to overcome these barriers (e.g. EAGDA, public health forum, clinical trials).
·  Current priority projects (discoverability, incentives, clinical trial data access). / 1040-1045
-  Mark Thorley
RCUK / ·  Public dialogue on open access to research data.
·  Development of a common, cross-council data policy.
·  Concordat on open research data.
·  Support for international data coordination.
·  Big data and open data for innovation and growth. / 1045-1055
Welcome from The Rt Hon David Willetts MP / 1100-1105
-  Geoffrey Boulton
Royal Society / ·  Outcomes from the Open Data Forum event held in January 2014.
·  Update on discussions with Molly Broad (American Council of Education, USA) and Elliot Shore (Association of Research Libraries, USA) following the round table event held by David Willetts in December 2013. / 1105-1120
-  Roly Keating
British Library / ·  DataCite.
·  Web archiving of research outputs. / 1120-1130
3.  Strategic Discussion on next steps to be taken. / ·  Open Data Ecology
o  How will an open data system work?
o  Who needs to be engaged?
§  Business participation?
o  Roles of individual stakeholders
·  Repositories
o  Infrastructure
o  Linking of repositories
o  Ownership
o  Sustainability
o  Metadata
o  What strategic action is needed to ensure that repositories are established and sustained in an optimum way?
·  International collaboration
o  What should be the next step towards establishing the national policy position as the basis for international collaboration? / 1130-1230

Attendees

Members:

The Rt Hon David Willetts MP (Chair)

Professor Geoffrey Boulton - Royal Society

Mark Thorley – NERC (deputising for Rick Rylance, RCUK)

David Sweeney – HEFCE

Professor Adam Tickell – University of Birmingham

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt – University of Southampton/Open Data Institute

Guy Goodwin – UK Statistics Authority (deputising for Jil Matheson)

Krisztina Katona – Cabinet Office (deputising for Olivia Burman)

Guests:

Roly Keating – British Library

Nicola Perrin – Wellcome Trust

Professor Nick Wright – Newcastle University (representative for Russell Group working group on open research data).

Observers:

Maja Maricevic – British Library

Tim Bradshaw – Russell Group

Ron Egginton – BIS (RSTB Secretariat)

Anna Macey – BIS (RSTB Secretariat)

Apologies were received from Richard Mollet (Publishers Association), Bob Barr (Open Data User Group), Mark Walport (BIS), John O’Reilly (BIS), Lynn Gladden (University of Cambridge), Iain Gray (Technology Strategy Board) and Tim Palmer (Royal Meteorological Society).