CODATA Opening Ceremony
Chair: Gordon Wood, Canadian National Committee for CODATA and International Scientific Program Committee Co-Chair

Opening Remarks
John Rumble, President of CODATA

Scientific and Technical Data: Extending the Frontiers of Research  [PDF file]
Dr. Arthur Carty, President of National Research Council of Canada

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CODATA 2002 Prize Ceremony

Professor Arthur D. Pelton awarded the 2002 CODATA Prize

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Overview and Grand Challenges
Chair: Fedor Kuznetzov, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia

Closing Remarks
Harlan Onsrud, Conference Co-Chair and Chair of the U.S. National Committee for CODATA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Preserving Scientific Data: Supporting Discovery into the Future
John Rumble, CODATA President

A wide variety of methods have been used to save and preserve scientific data for thousands of years. The physical nature of these means and the inherent difficulties of sharing the physical media with others who need the data ha e been major barriers in advancing research and scientific discovery. The information revolution is changing this in many significant ways; ease of availability, breadth of distribution, size and completeness of data sets, and documentation. As a consequence, scientific discovery itself is changing now, and in the future, perhaps even more dramatically. In this talk I will review some historical aspects of data preservation and the use of data in discovery. And I will provide some speculations on how preserving data digitally might revolutionize scientific discovery.