Welcome to the 4th Plenary
Peter Doorn
DANS
De Meervaart Conference Centre
September 22-24, Amsterdam
Theme of the 4th Plenary: Reaping the Fruits
“Johnny saw some fine plums hanging,
Oh, like eggs, so very large...”
“Jantje zag eens pruimen hangen
O als eieren zo groot…”
(Reaping the fruits from the first Dutch
children’s book “Kleine gedigten voor
kinderen” by Hieronymus van Alphen,
1778)
Tuesday 23rd, 10:00 AM:
First Work Group Outputs
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What’s new this Plenary?
Breakout Sessions get maximum time: seven sessions in 10-12 rooms!
 17 Working Groups – 15 meetings
 36 Interest Groups – 39 meetings
 12 Birds of a Feather meetings
Three Plenary Sessions:
 Today: Robert-Jan Smits, Neelie Kroes, Carl-Christian Buhr, Barend Mons
 Tuesday: Jos Engelen, Christine L. Borgman, Andrew Treloar
 Wednesday: Panel, RDA business, RDA P5, Closing
Science Stream parallel to breakout sessions, almost continuously (6
sessions) in Red Hall. Topics:
 Data in Motion (today, Monday)
 Industrial Perspectives (Tuesday morning)
 Bridging with the Scientists (Tuesday afternoon)
 Knowledge Networks (Wednesday afternoon)
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How to report back from 65 parallel group sessions?
 Previous Plenaries: “Minute Madness”
 Would now become “Complete Madness”
 Therefore: RDA Group Marketplace
 Supported by our charming Marketplace Ambassador Ms. Gerry
 Every Group has a stand in the Marketplace.
 Chairs are to be at their stands, everybody can move around to visit
the stands they like
 Reporting back has already started
 Marketplace Tabloid “The Plum“
available on big sheets and as
Powerpoint template
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Tuesday: Conference dinner at Zandvoort aan Zee
Seawater temperature: 19.6o
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Organising Committee
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Peter Doorn (chair Conference Management Team)
Jeroen Rombouts (member, also chair Satellite Events Committee)
Cees de Laat (member, also chair Programme Committee)
Herman Stehouwer (member, also RDA/E liaison)
Lisa de Leeuw (member)
Ingrid Dillo (member)
Andrew Treloar (liaison from Plenary 3 Organising Committee)
Hilary Hanahoe (member, also RDA liaison)
Wouter Los (member)
Jacco Konijn (member)
Patrick Aerts (member)
Timea Biro
Emilie Kraaikamp
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Research Data Netherlands: www.researchdatanetherlands.nl
 Towards a collaborative data
infrastructure
 Mission: the promotion of
sustained access and
responsible re-use of digital
research data
 Cooperation of DANS &
3TU.Datacentre (training, Dutch
Data Award), SURFsara will sign
Wednesday afternoon
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Special RDA P4 Issue of E-Data & Research
In connection with:
50 years of data archiving
in The Netherlands and
the Dutch Data Award
Featuring several keynote
speakers such as RobertJan Smits, Barend Mons
and Christine Borgman
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11 Co-located Events
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Crowd Computing 2014 23-25 September, Big Data Value Centre, Almere
3rd EUDAT Conference: Bringing Data Infrastructures to Horizon 2020,
24-25 September, De Meervaart
Data Seal of Approval (DSA) Conference 2014, 24 September, De Meervaart
The Dutch Data Prize Ceremony, 24 September, De Meervaart
APARSEN/EUDAT/SCIDIP-ES/DPHEP Joint data preservation Workshop, 24
September, De Meervaart
ODIN ORCID and DataCite: Towards Holistic Open Research, 24 September, De
Meervaart
EGI Conference on Solutions and Challenges for Big Data Processing, 24-26
September, Science Park, Amsterdam
AMS Data 2014, 25 September, de Meervaart
RECODE Workshop WP5: Policy guidelines for open access and data preservation
and dissemination, 25 September, de Meervaart
PaNdata ODI 2nd Open Workshop, 25 September, de Meervaart
CReATIVE-B: Workshop 'Global Roadmap for biodiversity research infrastructures',
26 September, Brussels, Belgium
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Our sponsors
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Enjoy the Conference,
Enjoy Amsterdam!