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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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Appendix B

Workshop Agenda and Participants

WORKSHOP ON PROMOTING ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DATA FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST: AN ASSESSMENT OF POLICY OPTIONS

Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications

National Research Council

January 14-15, 1999

at

The Department of Commerce Auditorium

14th Street, between Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues, NW

Washington, D.C.

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Thursday, January 14

8:00 am

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:30

A. Introductory remarks

Robert Serafin, Study Chair

8:45

Keynote Address

Q. Todd Dickinson

Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks (Acting), Department of Commerce

B. Summary of S&T databases to be discussed at the workshop

9:00

Geographic Data Panel

Moderator: Harlan Onsrud, Associate Professor, University of Maine

  • Government-sector data activity: Barbara Ryan, Associate Director for Operations, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior

  • Not-for-profit-sector data activity: James Brunt, Associate Director for Information Management, Long-Term Ecological Research Network Office, University of New Mexico1

  • Commercial-sector data activity: Barry Glick, former President and CEO, GeoSystems Global Corp.

1  

Dr. Brunt was unable to attend to the workshop due to illness.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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9:45

Genomic Data Panel

Moderator: Philip Loftus, Vice President and Director, Glaxo Wellcome R&D

  • Government-sector data activity: James Ostell, Chief, Information Engineering Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

  • Not-for-profit-sector data activity: Chris Overton, Director, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania

  • Commercial-sector data activity: Myra Williams, President and CEO, Molecular Applications Group

10:30

BREAK

10:45

Chemical and Chemical Engineering Data Panel

Moderator: Roberta Saxon, Patent Agent, Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, Franklin & Friel

  • Government-sector data activity: Richard Kayser, Chief, Physical and Chemical Properties Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce

  • Not-for-profit-sector data activity: James Lohr, Director, Information Industry Relations, Chemical Abstracts Service, American Chemical Society

  • Commercial-sector data activity: Leslie Singer, President, ISI, Inc.

11:30

Meteorological Data Panel

Moderator: Robert Serafin, Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research

  • Government-sector data activity: Ken Hadeen, Director (retired), National Climatic Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

  • Not-for-profit-sector data activity: David Fulker, Director, Unidata Program, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

  • Commercial-sector data activity: Robert Brammer, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, TASC

12:15 pm

LUNCH (available in the Department of Commerce cafeteria)

1:15

C. Economic factors in production/dissemination/use of S&T databases in the public and private sectors

Moderator: Suzanne Scotchmer, Professor, UC Berkeley

Speaker: Richard Gilbert, Professor, UC Berkeley

2:15

D. Overview of technologies for protecting and for misappropriating digital IPR: the current situation and future prospects

Moderator: Mark Stefik, Principal Scientist, Xerox PARC

Speaker: Teresa Lunt, Principal Scientist, Xerox PARC (by video)

2:45

BREAK

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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3:00

E.1 Summary overview of existing and proposed IPR regimes for databases

  • The status quo

  • Sui generis property rights model

  • Unfair competition/misappropriation model

Moderator: Harvey Perlman, Professor, College of Law, University of Nebraska

Speaker: Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress

3:45

E.2 Summary of federal government information law and data policies

Speaker: Justin Hughes, Attorney, Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce

4:00

F. Breakout sessions on the existing legal and technical situation

4:15

Individual breakout sessions

1) Government-sector data panel

Moderator: Shelton Alexander, Professor, Pennsylvania State University

Rapporteur: Suzanne Scotchmer, Professor, UC Berkeley

Panelists:

  • Barbara Ryanx, Associate Director of Operations, U.S. Geological Survey

  • James Ostell, Chief, Information Engineering Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM/NIH

  • Richard Kayser, Chief, Physical and Chemical Properties Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Kenneth Hadeen, Director (retired), National Climatic Data Center

2) Not-for-profit-sector data panel

Moderator: Maureen Kelly, Vice President for Planning, BIOSIS

Rapporteur: Jerome Reichman, Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Law

Panelists:

  • James Brunt, Associate Director for Information Management, Long-Term Ecological Research Network Office, University of New Mexico

  • Chris Overton, Director, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania

  • James Lohr, Director, Information Industry Relations, Chemical Abstracts Service, American Chemical Society

  • David Fulker, Director, Unidata Program, UCAR

3) Commercial-sector data panel

Moderator: Robert Serafin, Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Rapporteur: Mark Stefik, Principal Scientist, Xerox PARC

Panelists

  • Barry Glick, former President and CEO, GeoSystems Global Corp.

  • Myra Williams, President and CEO, Molecular Applications Group

  • Leslie Singer, President, ISI, Inc.

  • Robert Brammer, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, TASC

5:45

ADJOURN

5:45 - 6:45

RECEPTION (in the main lobby of the Department of Commerce)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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Friday, January 15

8:00 amCONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

 

8:30

G. Summary reports by Rapporteurs from previous day's breakouts

9:20

H. Instructions by Workshop Chair and move to breakout rooms

9:30

I. Breakout sessions

Session 1:

Congress decides to enact a strong property rights model protecting databases

Moderator: Paul Uhlir, Study Director, National Research Council

Rapporteur: Peter Leavitt, Consultant

Panelists:

  • Ken Hadeen, Director (retired), National Climatic Data Center

  • David Fulker, Director, Unidata Program, UCAR

  • Robert Brammer, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, TASC

  • Jon Baumgarten, Attorney, Proskauer Rose LLP

  • Peter Jaszi, Professor, American University School of Law

  • James Neal, Director, Johns Hopkins University Library2

  • Ferris Webster, Professor, University of Delaware

Session 2:

Congress decides to enact an unfair competition model protecting databases

Moderator: Harvey Perlman, Professor, College of Law, University of Nebraska

Rapporteur: Philip Loftus, Vice President and Director, Glaxo Wellcome R&D

Panelists:

  • Dennis Benson, Chief Information Resources Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM/NIH

  • Chris Overton, Director, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania

  • Myra Williams, President and CEO, Molecular Applications Group

  • Michael Klipper, Attorney, Meyer & Klipper

  • Jonathan Band, Attorney, Morrison & Foerster, LLP

  • Thomas Rindfleisch, Director, Medical Library, Stanford University

Session 3:

Promoting access to and use of government S&T data—an assessment of legal and policy options

Moderator: Harlan Onsrud, Associate Professor, University of Maine

Rapporteur: Shelton Alexander, Professor, Pennsylvania State University

Panelists:

  • Barbara Ryan, Associate Director for Operations, U.S. Geological Survey3

  • James Brunt, Associate Director for Information Management, Long-Term Ecological Research Network Office, University of New Mexico

  • Barry Glick, former President and CEO, GeoSystems Global Corp.

  • Peter Weiss, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Management and Budget4

2  

Dr. Neal was unable to attend this session due to inclement weather.

3  

Ms. Ryan was unable to attend this session due to inclement weather.

4  

Mr. Weiss was unable to attend this session due to inclement weather.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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  • Prue Adler, Assistant Executive Director, Federal Relations and Information Policy, Association of Research Libraries

  • Eric Massant, Director of Government and Industry Affairs, Reed Elsevier, Inc.

  • Tim Foresman, Director, Spatial Analysis Lab, University of Maryland

  • Kenneth Frazier, Director, University of Wisconsin Libraries

Session 4:

Promoting access to and use of not-for-profit-sector S&T data—an assessment of legal and policy options

Moderator: Martha Williams, Professor and Director, Information Retrieval Research Lab, University of Illinois

Rapporteur: Roberta Saxon, Patent Agent, Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson et al.

Panelists:

  • Richard Kayser, Chief, Physical and Chemical Properties Division, NIST

  • James Lohr, Director, Information Industry Relations, Chemical Abstracts Service, American Chemical Society

  • Leslie Singer, President, ISI, Inc.

  • Allan Adler, Vice President for Governmental and Legislative Affairs, Association of American Publishers5

  • Jerome Reichman, Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Law

  • R. Stephen Berry, Professor, University of Chicago

10:45

BREAK

11:00

Breakout session discussions (continued)

12:45 pm

LUNCH (available in the Department of Commerce cafeteria)

1:45

J. Rapporteurs' summary of breakout panel results

2:45

Discussion of results with workshop participants

3:45

K. Concluding remarks

Robert Serafin, Chair

4:00

End of public workshop

5  

Mr. Adler was unable to attend this session due to inclement weather.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

Allan Adler

Association of American Publishers

Prue Adler

Association of Research Libraries

Shelton Alexander

Pennsylvania State University

Dave Applegate

(affiliation unknown)

Christopher Ashley

National Science Foundation

Mary Baish

American Association of Law

Jonathan Band

Morrison & Foerster, LLP

Winona Barker

National Biomedical Research Foundation

Ed Barron

Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Barbara Bauldock

U.S. Geological Survey

Jon Baumgarten

Proskauer Rose, LLP

Dennis Benson

National Library of Medicine

R. Stephen Berry

University of Chicago

Robert Brammer

TASC

Lisa Brooks

National Institutes of Health

Francis Buckley, Jr.

U.S. Government Printing Office

Mark Burnham

California Institute of Technology

Bonnie Carroll

Information International Associates Inc.

William Cohen

Federal Trade Commission

Kathy Covert

Federal Geographic Data Committee

Karen Dacres

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Judge Edward Damich

U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Matthew Davis

(affiliation unknown)

Deveny Deck

Vanderbilt University

Paul DeGiusti

Information Industry Association

Q. Todd Dickinson

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Anita Eisenstadt

National Science Foundation

Adam Eisgrau

American Library Association

Julie Esanu

National Research Council

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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Bob Etkins

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Eric Fischer

Library of Congress

Peter Folger

American Geophysical Union

Tim Foresman

University of Maryland

Mark Frankel

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Kenneth Frazier

University of Wisconsin Libraries

David Fulker

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Carole Ganz-Brown

National Science Foundation

Richard Gilbert

University of California, Berkeley

Paul Gilman

Celera Genomics, Inc.

Barry Glick

Consultant

Kenneth Hadeen (retired)

National Climatic Data Center

Kelley Heilman

Maryland State Department of Health

Stephen Heinig

Association of American Medical Colleges

Stephen Heller

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Mike Hoffman

(affiliation unknown)

Justin Hughes

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Peter Jaszi

American University School of Law

Brian Kahin

Office of Science and Technology Policy

Richard Kayser

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Chris Kelly

U.S. Department of Justice

Maureen Kelly

BIOSIS

Michael Keplinger

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Ehsan Khan

U.S. Department of Energy

Michael Klipper

Meyer & Klipper, PLLC

Makoto Kono

Fujitsu, Ltd.

Stephen Koslow

National Institute of Mental Health

Patrice Laget

Delegation of the European Commission

Richard Lambert

National Institutes of Health

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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Charles Larson

Industrial Research Institute, Inc.

Peter Leavitt

Consultant

Robert Ledley

Georgetown University

Lynn Levine

Warren Publishing

David Lide

Consultant

Anne Linn

National Research Council

Joan Lippincott

Coalition for Networked Information

Philip Loftus

Glaxo Wellcome

James Lohr

Chemical Abstracts Service

Joe Martinez

U.S. Department of Energy

Eric Massant

Reed Elsevier, Inc.

Stephen Maurer

Attorney

Gilles McDougall

Industry Canada

Bruce McDowell

National Academy of Public Administration

Shelia McGarr

(affiliation unknown)

Theodore Miles

National Science Foundation

John Moeller

U.S. Geological Survey

Christopher Mohr

Meyer & Klipper, PLLC

Kurt Molholm

Defense Technical Information Center

James Neal

Johns Hopkins University Library

Judge Pauline Newman

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Goetz Oertel

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy

Harlan Onsrud

University of Maine

James Ostell

National Institutes of Health

G. Christian Overton

University of Pennsylvania

Bob Palmer

U.S. House of Representatives

Harvey Perlman

University of Nebraska College of Law

Shira Perlmutter

U.S. Copyright Office

Marybeth Peters

U.S. Copyright Office

Larry Pettinger

U.S. Geological Survey

Tony Reichardt

(affiliation unknown)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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Jerome Reichman

Vanderbilt University School of Law

Thomas Rindfleisch

Stanford University

Hedy Rossmeissl

U.S. Geological Survey

John Rumble

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Barbara Ryan

U.S. Geological Survey

Carolina Saez

U.S. Copyright Office

Roberta Saxon

Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, Franklin & Friel

Terri Scanlan

National Research Council

Jean Schiro-Zavela

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Harold Schoolman

National Library of Medicine

Suzanne Scotchmer

University of California, Berkeley

Robert Serafin

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Leslie Singer

Institute for Scientific Information

Mark Smith

American Association of University Professors

Mark Stefik

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

Charles Sturrock

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Ambassador James Sweeney

Consultant

Margaret Thomson

U.S. Department of Energy

Paul Uhlir

National Research Council

John Vaughn

Association of American Universities

Ferris Webster

University of Delaware

Peter Weiss

Office of Management and Budget

Pamela Whitney

National Research Council

Martha Williams

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Myra Williams

Molecular Applications Group

James Wilson

Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives

Richard Witmer

U.S. Geological Survey

Barbara Wright

National Research Council

Susan Zevin

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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