A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will plan and convene a U.S. Research Data Summit of national organizations across all sectors who are shaping and influencing U.S. research data policies and practices. The purpose of the Summit is to discuss strategies to increase coherence of interests and activities among the various organizations in order to increase communication and collaboration and reduce unnecessary duplication of effort within the United States, as well as position the United States to be well represented in international discussions on research data.
Invitees will include representatives of U.S. federal agencies' data management programs, governmental groups focusing on data (such as Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Open Science (OSTP/SOS), data projects with many stakeholders (such as NSF's Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs), disciplinary and data science professional societies, U.S. bodies of international data organizations (such as Research Data Alliance (RDA) - U.S., USNC/CODATA, Go FAIR), and U.S.-based project funders.
A proceedings of the workshop will be published.