[Apologies for multiple postings] The 2nd Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit Denver, CO | Hyatt Regency | March 31-April 1, 2011 http://www.asis.org/Conferences/RDAP11/ Early Registration deadline is on or before 2/18/2011 In cooperation with the Coalition for Networked Information The second Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) summit will take place on March 31-April 1, 2011 in Denver at the Hyatt Regency Denver. The RDAP summit will focus the state of institutional repositories in the academy and government agencies and efforts toward interoperability across these emerging systems. Clifford Lynch will keynote the meeting and the summit will include panels that focus on different approaches to building and operating IRs, efforts to support national (e.g., NSF�s data stewardship requirements) and scholarly (e.g., open and commercial publishers) linkages to IRs, and open discussions about the future of IRs and digital libraries. Submit Posters by Feb. 28: http://www.softconf.com/asis/RDAP-2011/ Tentative Program Keynote Clifford Lynch, CNI: Institutional Repositories Today and Tomorrow Panel 1 Institutional Repository Case Studies: Erin O'Meara, UNC: Organizer/Moderator Panel 2 NSF Data Management Plan Case Studies: Michael Giarlo, Penn State: Organizer/Moderator Panel 3 Data Publication Repositories: From Small to Large Data Joe Hourcle, NASA: Organizer/Moderator Panel 4. Data Archives in Federal Agencies: Bill Anderson, UT Austin, Oranizer/Moderator Panel 5. Policy-based Data Management Reagan Moore, UNC-RENCI: Organizer/Moderator Panel 6 Future of Digital Libraries: Gary Marchionini, UNC Organizer/Moderator Group activity and discussion: Main challenge in your institution; main challenge to field Posters Submit Posters to ASIST by February 28: http://www.softconf.com/asis/RDAP-2011/ Invited participants Monica Omodei, Australian National Data Service Steve Hughes, Planetary Data System Ruth Duerr, National Snow and Ice Data Center Phil Bourne, Protein Database MacKenzie Smith, MIT Rob Pennington, NSF Kevin Ashley, director of Digital Curation Centre at University of Edinburgh Sayeed Choudhary, Data Conservancy Dick Hill _____ Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900