1. Dr. Fran Berman, RPI BRDI Sponsor Forum 2/13

2. Dr. Fran Berman, RPI Focus: Discussion of planned BRDI activities and key interests of sponsors Improving the Sharing of Earth Observation Data between China and the U.S. – Joint U.S. / China CODATA study of opportunities and barriers to sharing remote sensing and other earth observation data Sustainability Strategies for Publicly Funded Scientific Databases – Characterize the publicly funded data landscape. Provide recommendations for sustainable economic support models from public, academic, private sectors for publicly funded data. Building a Biomedical Knowledge Network (Joint with Board on Life Sciences) – Consensus study to define information commons and knowledge network for biomedical and scientific research. BRDI Competition on Research Data and Information / 2013 Lee Dirks Prize – Open competition for novel ideas / tools / processes / models using open, publicly available digital data and information to address a societal problem Legal Interoperability of Research Data – Workshop to bring together stakeholders to discuss legal framework that supports appropriate attribution and sharing of research data. Potential RDA-CODATA Working Group to develop prototype framework. Decadal Survey of Grand Challenges in the Data and Information Life Cycle – Identify barriers to scientific progress over data life cycle and recommend interventions. Articulate set of grand challenge research problems for data.

3. Dr. Fran Berman, RPI Thanks to our Sponsor Roundtable Participants