Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development

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MONDAY, 7 May

18:30 - 20:00 Reception offered by China Recycle Resources Network
20:00 Dinner

TUESDAY, 8 May

08:00 - 09:00 Registration

Session 1: Opening Session
Meeting Room: Salão Village

Chair: Rogério Meneghini, Brazilian Academy of Science

09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and Review of previous workshops

• Vanderlei Canhos, Brazilian National Committee for CODATA, CRIA director and Workshop Co-chair
• William Anderson, Workshop Co-chair and Co-chair, CODATA Preservation Task Group, USA

09:30 - 10:15 Keynote address: The Role of Scientific Information in Sustainable Development: Focus on Latin America

• João Vianei Soares, INPE

10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK

10:45 - 12:30 Session 2: Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information: current challenges and strategic directions
Meeting Room: Salão Village

Chair: John Wilbanks, Science Commons, USA

• e-Infrastructures: the European Perspective on Scientific Data, Carlos Ferreira de Morais Pires, European Commission DG INFSO (Information Society)
• The Asian Perspective, LIU Chuang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Open & Permanent Access to S&T Information: The African Perspective, Steve Rossouw, Chair, South African National Committee for CODATA, South Africa
• A Question of Access: Public Policy and Digital Repositories, The North American Perspective, Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC, USA
• General discussion

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 15:30 Session 3: Policy and Legal Issues
Meeting Room: Salão Village

Chair: Regina Gusmão, CGEE, Brazil

• Open access to data and information: the need for strategies and policies in Brazil. Dora Canhos, CRIA, Brazil
• Towards a National Policy to Provide Access to Scientific Information and Data in a Developing Country, Anna Maria Prat, CONICYT, Chile
• Legal Constraints and Opportunities in Providing Permanent Access to Scientific and Technical Data, Harlan Onsrud, Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine, USA
• Creative Commons: An alternative for sharing scientific knowledge. Pedro Paranaguá, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Brazil

15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 - 17:30 Session 4: Institutional and Economic Issues
Meeting Room: Salão Village

Chair: Holm Tiessen, Director, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)

• Emerging InstITutional Paradigms for Providing Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Data and Information, Paul Uhlir, National Academy of Sciences, USA
• The effect of Open Access on Brazilian academic journals, Lewis Greene, Brazil
• Institutional Repositories (IRs): their contribution to sustainable development, Barbara Kirsop, Electronic Publishing Trust, UK
• The Virtual Incubator of Digital Contents of the Tidia Program of FAPESP, Imre Simon, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da USP

17:30 - 18:30 Session 5: Posters, Thematic Presentations and Technical Demonstrations
Meeting Room: Salão Village

18:45 Reception and dinner

WEDNESDAY, 9 May

09:00 - 10:30 Session 6: Management, Technical and Infrastructure Issues
Meeting Room: Salão Village

Chair: Michael Stanton, RNP, Brazil

• Management Issues for Permanent Access to Scientific Information: Increases in Programmatic Scale and Change, Raymond McCord, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
• Red CLARA, an infrastructure for collaboration, Martha Giraldo, RENATA, Colombia
• Technology and Infrastructure Support for Large Scale Information, Marcio Faerman, RNP, Brazil

10:30 - 10:35 Instructions for parallel breakout sessions
Meeting Room: Salão Village

10:35 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 12:30 Session 7: Thematic Breakout Sessions

The parallel thematic breakout sessions focus on health and biomedical data and metadata, earth and environmental science data and metadata, biodiversity data and metadata, and the related Journals. These sessions build on the results of the preceding plenary discussions.

Questions for speakers:

1. What are the current challenges and barriers to providing open and permanent access to data and information in this field?
   
2. What are some of the most promising existing models or mechanisms for providing such access?
   
3. Identify one or more potential realistic cooperative activities in Latin America for subsequent discussion at the breakout session.
   

Panel 7.1. Health & Biomedical Data & Metadata
Meeting Room: Salão Village

Chair: Anna Maria Prat, Conicyt, Chile
Rapporteur: William Anderson, Praxis101, USA
Speakers:

• Development and use of core public health indicators for decision making in the public health sector. The PAHO's experience., Carlos Castillo-Salgado, Pan American Health Organization
• Scientific Literature for the Interagency Network of Health Information - RIPSA, Adalberto Tardelli, Bireme, Brazil
• PanAmazonian Network of Science, Technology and Innovation in Health, Laís Costa, Fiocruz and Janette Aguirre, OTCA
• Ecological Niche Modeling: A tool set to assess distributional patterns in biodiversity and pathogens, Jane Costa, Fiocruz, Brazil
• Infrastructure perspectives for the development of telehealth in Brazil and Latin America, Luiz Ary Messina, RNP/RUTE, Brazil

Panel 7.2. Environmental & Geospatial Data & Metadata
Meeting Room: Sala de Vídeo

Chair: Antônio Miguel Monteiro, INPE, Brazil [TBC]
Rapporteur: Raed Sharif, University of Syracuse, USA
Speakers:

• Environmental & Geospatial Data for modelling processes in the Amazon Region. Challenges, barriers and goals over studies of Biodiversity and Land Use and Land Cover Change at GEOMA Project, Silvana Amaral, INPE - GEOMA, Brazil
• Open GeoSpatial Data: Difficult but Necessary, Puneet Kishor, University of Wisconsin, USA
• Data Needs for Adaptation to Global Change, Holm Tiessen, Director, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)
• South America Remote Sensing Data Integration Based in Web GIS for Environmental Applications and Severe Storm Warning, Luiz Augusto Machado, Division of Environmental Satellites-CPTEC/INPE, Brazil

Panel 7.3. Biodiversity Data & Metadata
Meeting Room: Sala Estância

Chair: Andrea Ferreira Portela Nunes, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil
Rapporteur: Bonnie Carroll, USA
Speakers:

• Promoting open access to biodiversity data and metadata: the GBIF approach. Beatriz Torres, GBIF
• Open access to biodiversity data: the speciesLink experience, Dora Canhos, CRIA, Brazil
• PPBio - Program for Planned Biodiversity Studies, Célio Magalhães, INPA, Brazil
• SIAMAZONIA: A response to the challenge of managing and effectively using biodiversity information in the Peruvian Amazonia, Victor Miyakawa, Siamazonia, IIAP, Peru
• Biodiversity Information in Colombia: National and Regional Perspectives. Ximena Franco, Humboldt Institute, Colombia

Panel 7.4. Scientific, Technical and Medical Journals
Meeting Room: Sala Paulista

Chair: Rogério Meneghini BIREME, Brazil
Rapporteur: Paul Uhlir, NAS, USA
Speakers:

• SciELO as a model for scientific communication in developing countries, Abel Packer, SCIELO, Brazil
• Collaborative approach to open access: Experience from Bioline International, Leslie Chan, University of Toronto, Bioline International, Canada
• Adapting the African Journal Partnership Concept to Latin American Countries, Tom Goehl, publishing consultant, USA
• Citation indexing systems and the future of scientific publications in Latin America, Clemente Forero Pineda, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
• Antonio Machado-Allison, Venezuela

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 Session 7: continuation

The continuation of the parallel thematic sessions from the morning will focus on identifying follow-up activities that can be taken toward improving permanent access for the identified type of digital scientific information resources. The participants of each session, through a general discussion, should respond to the following questions, factoring in the results and presentations from the previous sessions:

1. What are some potential realistic cooperative activities in Latin America to help address the challenges and barriers that have been identified?
   
2. How can such new or improved initiatives specifically be implemented?

16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 17:30 Session 8: Thematic Breakout Reports
Meeting Room: Salão Village
Chair: Heather Joseph, Executive director, SPARC, USA

Breakout Reports

• Biodiversity Data & Metadata
• Environmental & Geospatial Data & Metadata
• Scientific, Technical and Medical Journals
• Health & Biomedical Data & Metadata

17:30 - 18:30 Session 9: Posters, Thematic Presentations and Technical Demonstrations

Meeting Room: Salão Village

• WebBee - an information network on bee biodiversity in Brazil, Antônio Mauro Saraiva, Poli, USP, Brazil
  
• ViNCES - Weblabs on ecosystem services, Pedro Luiz P. Corrêa, Poli, USP, Brazil
  

20:00 Group Dinner

THURSDAY, 10 May

09:00 - 10:30 Session 10.a: Crosscutting Breakout Sessions
Meeting Room: Salão Village

The participants should respond to the following questions, factoring in the results and presentations from the previous sessions:

1. What are some potential realistic projects or collaborations to help address the challenges and barriers that have been identified?
   
2. How can the new or improved initiatives specifically be implemented?
   

Panel 10.1: Integration of Geospatial, Socio-Economic & Biomedical Data for Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development
Meeting Room: Salão Village

Participants will focus on initiatives, models, methods, challenges, best practices and lessons learned for integrating geospatial, socio-economic and biomedical data for poverty reduction.

Chair: Luiz Henrique Proença, President IPEA, Brazil
Rapporteur: Raed Sharif, University of Syracuse, USA
Speakers:

• Integration of environmental, social and health data using GIS: Lessons learned from three disease outbreaks investigations in rural areas, Christovam Barcellos, Fiocruz, Brazil
• Uses of Geographic Information Systems for Global Public Health. The GIS-EPI Project. Carlos Castillo-Salgado, PAHO
• Integrating Environmental and Social Data, Marjorie McGuirk, NOAA, USA
• Geospatial Data for Health and Environmental Applications in Latin America: A Focus on Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development, Paul Uhlir, The U.S. National Academies and Raed M. Sharif, The U.S. National Academies and Syracuse University

Panel 10.2: Integration of Environmental, Geospatial & Biodiversity Data for Improved Research and
Meeting Room: Sala de Vídeo Applications

Participants will focus on initiatives, models, methods, challenges, best practices and lessons learned form integrating geospatial & biodiversity data for improved research and applications.

Chair: Antônio Mauro Saraiva, Poli, USP, Brazil
Rapporteur: Puneet Kishor, University of Wisconsin, USA
Speakers:

• Georeferenced Information System on the Brazilian Amazon. Guido Gelli, Geo Sciences Director, IBGE, Brazil
• The Amazon Protected Areas Network - RANPA., Alvaro Espinel, Sustainable Development Department, Organization of American States (OAS).
• openModeller Desktop - A new approach to niche modelling, Tim Sutton, Renato De Giovanni, CRIA, Brazil
  
• Environmental satellite data: Applications for the study of the physical environment and biodiversity, Marinez F. de Siqueira, CRIA, Angélica Giarolla, CPTEC/INPE, Lúcia G. Lohmann, IB-USP, Brazil
• Toward integrating three large and disparate networks and databases of Amazon tree biodiversity, Oliver Phillips, RAINFOR/ATDN, UK, Vanderlei Canhos, CRIA, Brazil

Panel 10.3: Creating Permanent Information Commons for Science in Latin America
Meeting Room: Sala Estância

Chair: Barbara Kirsop, Electronic Publishing Trust
Rapporteur: Paul Uhlir, National Academy of Sciences, USA
Speakers:

• Open Access and the Conservation Commons: putting biodiversity data and information to work, Tom Moritz, Conservation Commons, USA
• Scholarly Information: a new model for Brazil, Hélio Kuramoto, IBICT, Brazil
• Accelerating Scientific Research Cycles through an Information Commons, John Wilbanks, Science Commons, USA
• Luis Villarroel, Ministry of Education, Chile
• Access to Scientific Information in Brazil, Jorge Machado, USP, Brazil

10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 12:30 Session 10.b: Crosscutting Breakout Sessions (continued)
Meeting Room: Salão Village

Speakers will address the following questions, generalizing from their direct experiences in these areas:

1. What are the current challenges and barriers to providing open and permanent access to data and information in this field?
   
2. What are some of the most promising existing models or mechanisms for providing such access?
   
3. Identify one or more potential realistic cooperative activities in Latin America for subsequent discussion at the breakout session.
   

12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH

14:30 - 15:30 Session 11: Crosscutting Breakout Session Reports
Meeting Room: Salão Village
Chair: William Anderson, Codata Preservation Task Group, USA
Rapporteur Panel Reports and Plenary Discussion

Breakout Reports

• Breakout Panel 10.1
• Breakout Panel 10.2

15:30 - 17:00 Session 12: Closing Presentations and Future follow-up activities

Meeting Room: Salão Village
Chair: Michael Clegg, National Academy of Sciences, USA

• CODATA Keynote, Krishan Lal, President CODATA
• Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Future Directions and Considerations, Hernan Chaimovich, Brazilian Academy of Science, Brazil

Closing Remarks by Workshop Co-chairs

END OF MEETING

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Sponsors
Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa, CNPq
U.S. National Science Foundation
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, INPE
U.S. National Weather Service
The Global Alliance for Enhancing Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries, of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development, UN G@ID
Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network
Organizers
U.S. National Committee for CODATA Brazilian National Committee for CODATA. CODATA Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries
Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental, CRIA

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