Intern:WDC Conference 2007

Meeting location

 * WDC Conference 2007, University of Bremen, MARUM Building, Leobener Strasse
 * MARUM Building, 2nd floor, room 2070
 * From downtown take the tramway line 6 towards Universität Klagenfurter Str. and get off at Universität/Zentralbereich or the last stop and walk to Marum. Stations are marked as H on map below. A PDF version is available here: http://www.rcom.marum.de/English/How_to_find_us.html
 * Bremen’s Tramway: http://www.bsag.de/eng/index.php

http://www.rcom.marum.de/Binaries/Binary13411/Uni_Lageplan2.jpg


 * Weather: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=4131
 * Bremen: http://www.bremen-tourism.de/


 * Hotel: Rooms have been reserved at a special rate of EUR 90,00 per night (incl. tax and breakfast) at the:
 * Atlantic Hotel Universum
 * Wiener Strasse 4
 * D-28359 Bremen
 * Germany
 * http://www.atlantic-hotels.de

and


 * Hotel Munte
 * Parkallee 299
 * D-28213 Bremen
 * Germany
 * http://www.hotel-munte.de/

Poster
Please use PDF-format for your poster design whenever it's possible. Do not use Word or PowerPoint.

The Poster size is DIN A0, which means 36x52 inch (90 x 120cm) or DIN A0 oversize (91.44 x 132.8 cm), smaller sizes are no problem, larger sizes are limited by paper roll size and data size (up to about 250 MB for images, please do not include turned images or too many objects). The longer edge should be on the side (portrait format).

The data file should be send approximately 14 days or earlier before the meeting starts.

To upload the poster please use the following link:

http://bscw.pangaea.de/bscw/bscw.cgi/411061

The login information will be sent per e-mail.

Presentation
Participants who wish to give a presentation (oral or poster) must not submit an abstract.

PC/Mac Demonstration
There are two options for a PC/Mac demonstration: either the author brings his/her own computer (laptop/Mac) and installs it at the PC/video projector (beamer), or he/she brings his/her own data medium and uses the permanently installed laptop/PC.

Please keep in mind that Germany runs a 230V electricity network.

If the author uses his/her own laptop/Mac we kindly point out that he/she has to switch on the external monitor mode (VGA mode, e.g. Fn F5).

In the meeting room there is a permanently installed laptop/PC with a DVD drive supporting DVD-R, DVD+R and CD-R and two USB 2.0 ports for memory sticks ready for any presentation an author has assembled on his/her supported data medium.

Power-Up Facilities for laptops/Macs and internet access
For charging their laptops/Macs participants may use all areas where open power-sockets are available. Throughout the MARUM Building we provide internet access via W-LAN.

Agenda
World Data Centres Conference 2007 University of Bremen, Germany

Venue: MARUM, Leobener Strasse, Room 2070

Agenda

Sunday 6 May 2007
 * 20:00	Ice breaker (Beer, Softdrinks, Buffet)/ATLANTIC Hotel Universum-CAMPUS Restaurant

Monday, 7 May 2007
 * 09:00	Welcome by Host (Prof. Wefer) and Opening by the Conference Chairman (Prof. Grassl)


 * Session I:	Overarching Issues: Chairman – Bernard Minster/Hartmut Grassl
 * 09:30	History of the ISCU WDC System – Ferris Webster
 * 10:00	WDCs and ICSU – Carthage Smith
 * 10:30	Coffee break
 * 11:00	Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) - Director of GEO Secretariat, WMO, Geneva Jose Achache
 * 11:30	Open Access/Data publishing – Hannes Grobe
 * 11:50	CODATA update --  Bob Chen
 * 12:10	Networking WDCs - common services & corporate identity – Michael Diepenbroek
 * 12:30	Lunch & coffee at MARUM

Selected talks:
 * Session II:	WDC poster presentations & selected talks
 * 13:30	WDCs posters: Addressing the challenges of the GEO/GEOSS/IPY Era
 * 15:00	FAGS –Wolfgang Schwegmann/Nicole Capitaine/
 * 15:20 IPY in the WDC framework – Taco de Brun/Florence Fetterer
 * 15:40	IYPDLE – European contribution to data management in IPY – Hans Pfeiffenberger
 * 15:50	Coffee break
 * 16:15	DSNESS - the WDC network in China – Wang Juanle
 * 16:30	WDC for Meteorology, Asheville & GOSIC - Howard Diamond
 * 16:45	WDC Climate & CEOP – Michael Lautenschlager
 * 17:00	WDC for Oceanography, Tianjin/China - Zhang Dongsheng
 * 17:15	WDC for Biodiversity and Ecology – John M. Hill
 * 17:30	End of session
 * 18:30	Transfer to the City Hall of Bremen (historical tram)

Tuesday 8 May 2007
 * 09:00	WDCs posters (continued)
 * 10:30	Coffee break


 * Session III:	Discussion in Splinter Groups
 * 11:00 – 13:00
 * Topic 1: Ways to improve the overall availability and quality of scientific data (Michael Lautenschlager, Hans Pfeiffenberger)
 * Topic 2: Ways towards networking WDCs (Michael Diepenbroek, Wang Juanle)
 * Topic 3: Data driven science – WDCs and GEOSS (Bob Chen, Michael Rast)
 * Topic 4: The role of WDCs in IPY (Taco de Bruin, Florence Fetterer)
 * 13:00	Lunch at MARUM


 * Session III:	Discussion in Splinter Groups
 * 14:00 – 15:30
 * Topic 1: Ways to improve the overall availability and quality of scientific data (Michael Lautenschlager, Hans Pfeiffenberger)
 * Topic 2: Ways towards networking WDCs (Michael Diepenbroek, Wang Juanle)
 * Topic 3: Data driven science – WDCs and GEOSS (Bob Chen, Michael Rast)
 * Topic 4: The role of WDCs in IPY (Taco de Bruin, Florence Fetterer)
 * 16:00 Bus transfer to the Bremerhaven Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Bremerhaven (about 60 km distance)
 * 17:00 Visit and short presentations at AWI
 * 19:00 Dinner in Bremerhaven
 * ~21:30 Return by bus to the hotel


 * Session IV: Recommendations for WDC Future

Wednesday 9 May 2007
 * 09:00	Report by Rapporteurs of Splinter Groups (15 min each, including short first discussion)
 * 10:00	Discussion: WDC input to ICSU Strategic Committee on Information and Data (SCID) ---Bernard Minster/Hartmut Grassl/Carthage Smith
 * 10:30	Coffee break
 * 11:00	Discussion: WDC input to ICSU Strategic Committee on Information and Data (SCID) --- Bernard Minster/Hartmut Grassl/ Carthage Smith
 * 11:30	Outline of Publication (posters and brochures from WDC directors)
 * 12:30	Wrap-up by the Chairman of the Conference
 * 12:45	End