Agenda for the 4th Plenary

The sessions at the RDA 4th plenary

There will be 3 sessions at the RDA corresponding to the activities from the Photon & Neutron communities. The final schedule:

  • Tue 23rd 11:30-13:00 BoF Scientific File Formats (and HDF5 extensions)
  • Tue 23rd 16:00-17:30 IG Research Data Needs of the Photon and Neutron Science Community 1
  • Wed 24th 09:00-10:30 IG Research Data Needs of the Photon and Neutron Science Community 2

If you are interested in the PaNSIG or the Scientific File Format initiatives, have a look at the PaNdata ODI Open Workshop conveniently co-located with the RDA 4th plenary and the preliminary agenda!


Session 1: State of the art

  • Big data at the Advanced Photon Source: some order out of chaos, and getting quick pictures. Chris Jacobsen, Argonne
  • Scientific Repositories for Experimental Data Thomas Jejkal, KIT
  • US Data Pilot Projects Thomas Proffen, ORNL
  • PanKos: controlled vocabulary for P&N techniques Brian Matthews, STFC

Session 2 : Working within the RDA

  • Intro to the RDA/CODATA IG Materials Data, Infrastructure & Interoperability IG Dr. James Warren (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
  • Outline Proposal for a RDA Nanostructure group Rainer Stotzka KIT or Brian Matthews STFC
  • RDA Scientific Data Formats IG and HDF5 working group: Feedback from BOF? Open Technical Forum Frank Schluenzen
  • Future activities : Counting Users; Conference; interactions with Other RDA groups; evaluating outputs of WGs; other; discussion