e-science conferences

This event is an important element of ongoing efforts to achieve the broader goals of The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS - www.itu.int/wsis/ ). In particular, this workshop aims to promote development of institutional policies and guidelines for action in support of the “information commons” for e-science. The work plan comprises four objectives:

• Review opportunities/challenges for realising global collaborative e-science on the emerging "cyber-infrastructure."
• Review government and university mechanisms for managing publicly funded scientific information in the digitally networked research environment; identify problems and develop procedural solutions.
• Identify and analyse institutional, economic, policy, and legal benefits/drawbacks to providing public access to and unrestricted use of publicly funded scientific information.
• Put forward resolutions/recommendations that enable the scientific community to more effectively utilise publicly funded scientific data and information.

Creating the Information Commons for e-Science: Toward Institutional Policies and Guidelines for Action
September 1-2, 2005
Paris, France

CISTI's Director General, Bernard Dumouchel, will be chairing the session Open Archive - INRIA Activity in e-Science

INRIA, the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, has launched in April 2005 an Open Archive dedicated to its scientific publications. INRIA is committed to the "archive open initiative" since it signed the Berlin declaration on "free access to knowledge in exact sciences, life sciences, human and social sciences", on July 25, 2004.

INRIA is convinced that such an open archive will increase its scientific visibility and impact, keep track of INRIA's scientific output, and be of use to the whole scientific community. INRIA's Open Archive is part of the HAL Open Archive, produced by the CCSD (Center for Direct Scientific Communication) (http://www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/) of CNRS, originally for physicists. INRIA is now collaborating with the CCSD for the future evolution of HAL [Hyper Articles Online]. By signing a framework agreement with CNRS, INRIA will build a pool of its scientific production, based on a self-archiving approach from research scientists.

HAL-INRIA is one of the recent outcomes of the DISC (Direction for Scientific Information and Communication), an INRIA department created in 2001, for defining and implementing INRIA policy regarding the access and dissemination of Scientific Information.

UPDATE 2005-08-22:  There is also an e-science conference in Australia coming up

1st IEEE Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing Dec.  5 – 8, 2005,   Melbourne  ,  Australia
http://www.gridbus.org/escience/