Unlocking the full value of Scientific Data
“Riding the wave – How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data”
Final Report of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data - A submission to the European Commission – October 2010
The report “Riding the wave – How Europe can gain from the rising tide of
scientific data” provides the “vision 2030” for the evolution of
e-infrastructure to scientific data and identifies the benefits and costs of
accelerating the development of a fully functional e-infrastructure for
scientific data.
The report has been produced by the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data
after meetings and consultations from December 2009 through June 2010.
For more information please
download the report.
Download the Executive Summary
Download the Rolling Presentation
About the High Level Expert Group (HLG)
The High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data was charged by the European
Commission’s Directorate-General for Information Society and Media to prepare a
“vision 2030” for the evolution of e-infrastructure to scientific data.
- Chair: John Wood, Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth
Universities
- Thomas Andersson, Professor of Economics and former President, Jönköping
University; Senior Advisor, Science, Technology and Innovation, Sultanate of
Oman
- Achim Bachem, Chairman, Board of Directors, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
- Christoph Best, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge (UK)/Google UK
Ltd, London (from September 2010)
- Françoise Genova, Director, Strasbourg astronomical Data Centre; Observatoire
Astronomique de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg/CNRS
- Diego R. Lopez, RedIRIS
- Wouter Los, Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam; Coordinator of
preparatory project LifeWatch biodiversity research infrastructure; Vice Chair
Governing Board of GBIF
- Monica Marinucci, Director, Oracle Public Sector, Education and Research
Business Unit
- Laurent Romary, INRIA and Humboldt University
- Herbert Van de Sompel, Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Jens Vigen, Head Librarian, European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN
- Peter Wittenburg, Technical Director, Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics
- Rapporteur: David Giaretta, STFC and Alliance for Permanent Access
- Report Text: Richard L. Hudson, Science|Business Press Releases Photo Gallery
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