1. Session 44: Building a disciplinary, world wide data infrastructure
SciDataCon 2016, Denver, 13/Sept/2016
Christophe Arviset
ESAC Science Data Centre, European Space Agency
Chair of the IVOA

2. Questions to be addressed by the panelists
What is your discipline culture with regard to data sharing ?
What are the science drivers for building your discipline interoperability infrastructure ?
How is your discipline organized to build interoperability infrastructure ?
What are the lessons learned from building your discipline interoperability infrastructure ?
Which part of your discipline interoperability infrastructure could be made generic for other disciplines ?

3. Agenda
Building a disciplinary, world-wide data infrastructure – Diversity, commonalities and facilitators (Françoise Genova)
The Materials Community, MGI, and Digital Data (James A Warren)
The experience of crystallography in building a data infrastructure (Brian McMahon)
Earth Science Data Infrastructure (Emily Law)
Building a worldwide interoperable data infrastructure for astronomy: the IVOA (Christophe Arviset)
Experimenting with infrastructure for creating and sharing research data in the Digital Humanities (Bridget May Almas)
The CLARIN Infrastructure for sharing data – making pragmatic choices (Daan Broeder)
Discussion (Panelists, audience, 45’)