Draft Schedule of Events, May 9-10, 2013

Location: Room 112, Radcliffe Gymnasium, Radcliffe Yard, 18 Mason Street, Cambridge, MA (Red pin on this map marks the front door of the Radcliffe Gymnasium--zoom in!)

Day 1 (Thursday, May 9)

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM Introductory remarks and welcome address

SESSION I
9:15 AM – 12:30 PM
Quantitative and qualitative perspectives on multiphase science – Beginning a dialogue

9:15-11:45 Introductions: each of 16 participants will answer the following questions (5 min/person, including short discussions & coffee break, total of 2.5 hours.)

1. What about your background gives you an interest in data curation?
2. What do you think is the most important opportunity good data curation offers? (Please just one!)
3. What do you think is the biggest danger facing scientific research today if we don't improve data curation? ((Please just one!)

Coffee Break at appropriate stopping point during the above, at roughly at 10:30.

11:45-12:30 Introduction to solutions proposed in the literature (Part I)
Presented by: Meng, Borgman, Crosas, Pepe et al. (TBD)

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30-2:00 Introduction to solutions proposed in the literature (Part II)
Presented by: Meng, Borgman, Crosas, Pepe et al. (TBD)

SESSION II
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Specific challenges in data curation, provenance, and multiphase analysis

2:00 PM--4:00 PM

Roughly 40 minutes for each of the topics below (as amended at the Workshop). Suggested discussion leaders indicated, but changes can and will(!) be made to respond to participant suggestions. Each workshop attendee will each "sign up" (at lunchtime) for 3 discussions total, to be held within groups of roughly 5 or 6 people each. Multiple rooms will be available, and a schedule of which discussions will take place in which room will be made on-the-fly, and posted here. There will be three "blocks" of 40 minutes, with two or three topics to choose from within each block.

• group collaboration challenges (Cranmer/Hogg)
• provenance, what's realistic? (Hedstrom/Pepe)
• storage, ideas on what to keep, sociological & algorithmic approaches (Groth/Blocker)
• can statistics help? (Slavkovic/Siemiginowska)
• the divide between theory and practice: what we should do, versus what we do do (Goodman/Borgman)
• what has & has not worked in Astronomy? (DiStefano/Kashyap/Mahabal)
• working with & educating the community of data producers (Gil/Crosas)

4:00-4:20 Coffee Break

4:30-5:30 Group discussion of smaller group's discussions, used to refine plans for Day 2.

6:30 PM Group Dinner at NuBar, Cambridge (in the Sheraton Commander)

Day 2 (Friday, May 10)

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast

SESSION III
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Where can we connect? Addressing foundational issues from interdisciplinary perspectives

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch

SESSION IV
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM What can we do together? Identifying opportunities for collaboration

6:30 PM Group Dinner (social event, location TBD)