Agenda

25 November 2009
Day 1 - Fair for broad audience outreach

08:30 – 09:15

Registration

09:15 – 09:45

Opening remarks
Anton Mangstl, Director of the Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

Welcome and meeting objectives
Johannes Keizer, D4Science Outreach Manager (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

09:45 – 10:30

Keynote speech on “Digital Library Infrastructure Support for Virtual Collaboration in Science”
Peter Young, Chief of the Asian Division (Library of Congress) - Short biography

10:30 – 10:45

Break

10:45 – 11:30

Vision of the D4Science project, including D4Science-II
Donatella Castelli, D4Science scientific coordinator (National Research Council, ISTI-CNR)

11:30 – 12:15

Keynote speech on “The Data Conservancy: A Digital Research and Curation Virtual Organization”
Sayeed Choudhury, Data Conservatory project, National Science Foundation DataNet project (Johns Hopkins University) - Short biography

12:15 – 12:45

Presentation on “Scientific Data e-Infrastructures in the European Capacities Programme”
Krystyna Marek, Project Officer, GÉANT & e-Infrastructure Unit (European Commission)

12:45 – 13:45

Lunch

13:45 – 14:30

Keynote speech on “Fishery science and policy-making: Connecting information and decision”
Serge Michel Garcia, former director of the Fisheries Management Division (Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) - Short biography

14:30 – 15:00

Community fair – Introduction of the D4Science communities, their challenges and the synergies
Chairperson: Marc Taconet, Senior Fisheries Information Officer (Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

• Nicolas Bailly, FishBase Project Manager (The WorldFish Center)
• Luigi Fusco, Earth Observation Programme Directorate (European Space Agency)
• Richard Grainger, Chief of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Information and Statistics Service, (Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

15:00 – 16:15

Community fair – Showcasing “Building dynamic research environments using D4Science technology”
Chairperson: Marc Taconet, Senior Fisheries Information Officer (Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

• Setting up a Virtual Research Environment (VRE)
  Veronica Guidetti, Earth Observation Programme Directorate (European Space Agency)

• Species distribution modelling using the AquaMaps VRE
  Kristin Kaschner, FAO Project consultant (University of Freiburg, Faculty of Biology)

• Generating reports from distributed hererogeneous data sources
  Anton Ellenbroek, Work Package leader for D4Science Communities VREs Definition, Validation and Exploitation (Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

16:15 – 16:30

Break

16:30 – 18:00

Panel discussion “How to exploit projects’ synergies”
Chairperson: Carlos Morais-Pires, Head of Sector Scientific Data Infrastructure (Information Society and Media Directorate-General, European Commission)

• Frank Bisby, (Distributed Dynamic Diversity Databases for Life, 4D4Life)
• Sayeed Choudhury, (Johns Hopkins University, The Data Conservatory project, NSF DataNet project)
• Marc Goovaerts, (Hasselt University, IOC/IODE Expert) - Video
• Sujeevan Ratnasingham, (Barcode of Life Initiative, Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding)
• Hendrik Segers, (BioFresh)

18:00 – 18:15

Closing remarks

19:30

Dinner

26 November 2009
Day 2 - Working session for D4Science members, partners and interested parties

09:15 – 09:30

Opening remarks

09:30 – 10:30

D4Science technical features and opportunities of the grid infrastructure for large scale data management
Pasquale Pagano, D4Science technical director (National Research Council, ISTI-CNR)

10:30 – 11:00

Community fair - Discussion on D4Science technical features

11:00 – 11:15

Break

11:15 – 12:55

Introduction of user needs: Fishery statistics, Vessels monitoring, Biodiversity, Aquatic science digital libraries, Environmental monitoring, Integrated reporting - Detailed information
Chairperson: Rainer Froese, Leader of the Fishbase Project (IFM-GEOMAR, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences)

• Mette Bertelsen (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, ICES) - Part 1 - Part 2
• Bob Branton (Ocean Biogeographic Information System, OBIS)
• Hamady Diop (Research and Information Systems Sub-Regional Commission of Fisheries, CSRP)
• Ricardo Federizon (Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization,NAFO)
• Marc Goovaerts, (Hasselt University, IOC/IODE Expert)
• Dominique Greboval (FAO) - Part 1 - Part 2
• Jerome Guitton (Agrocampus)
• Kjartan Hoydal (North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission, NEAFC)
• Moi Khim Tan (WorldFish Center, WFC)
• Pouchamarn Wangsanga (Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, SEAFDEC)

12:55 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:25

Continuation of the morning sessions (Introduction of user needs)

15:25 – 16:10

D4Science-II
Wrap-up of the previous sessions: How D4Science-II can take expectations into account

Marc Taconet, Senior Fisheries Information Officer (Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

Long-term sustainability and maintenance

Donatella Castelli, D4Science scientific coordinator  (National Research Council, ISTI-CNR)

16:10 – 16:30

Closing remarks