From: <Ray.Norris_at_email.protected>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:24:36 +1000

Dear colleague

AT the CODATA 2006 meeting "Scientific Data and Knowledge within the
Information Society", 22-25 October 2006, Beijing, will be a session on
"Managing Astronomical Data" chaired by myself, Alex Szalay, and
Chenzhou Cui.

This email is an invitation to submit papers for this session. If you
would like to present a paper, please send me a short email now, and
then submit an abstract by 30 June to

 http://www.codataweb.org/06conf/call.html

The draft session description is as follows:

Astronomy has a distinguished tradition of using technology to
accelerate the quality and effectiveness of science, and data-intensive
initiatives such as the Virtual Observatory lead the way. However,
astronomical data are not uniformly well-managed, and amongst shining
examples of excellent data management by major projects are interspersed
examples where data management has not been properly resourced, or where
hard-earned data remain inaccessible to most astronomers. We, like other
fields of science, need to establish and agree on a set of guiding
principles for the management of astronomical data.

This session will be focussed on cross-disciplinary aspects of these
issues. What lessons (both positive and negative) can be learnt from
astronomy, what initiatives can be re-used in other fields, and what can
astronomy learn from other fields?

Many thanks

Ray Norris
Received on 2006-06-22 13:25:02