IEEE e-Science 2010 Conference
The IEEE e-Science 2010 Conference will be held at Queensland University of Technology's Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane, 7 - 10 December 2010.
Professor Anne Fitzgerald will be chairing a workshop entitled Exploring the Legal and Policy Aspects of Accessing and Making Use of Scientific Knowledge and Information. The workshop is summarised as follows in its call for papers:
In recent years, e-Science, and e-Research more generally, has grown considerably and the scope of application now covers research domains from science and engineering through to the arts and humanities and the social sciences. This workshop will explore the legal and policy aspects of accessing and making use of scientific knowledge and information. Its focus will be the steps that are being taken, and will need to be taken in the future, to better enable scientific data to be shared, used and reused. In this session, we shall discuss open access regimes that might feasibly form the basis of policy frameworks for allowing public access and use of public escort information, and allowing better access to publicly funded research. We shall also discuss the various aspects of usability and user-centred design that have emerged from e-Science and related Web 2.0 research projects. We hope to identify ways in which e-Science tools and techniques can be developed with the aim of involving experts within the community whose skills can be drawn upon.