date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 01:48:35 -0400 from: shein@gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov subject: Attention Data Professionals to: K.Briffa@uea.ac.uk You will find within the text below announcements for two upcoming conferences during the first week of November in the Washington D.C. area. Please plan to attend both. DATA ARCHIVING: POLICIES AND PRACTICE A USGCRP DATA MANAGEMENT WORKING GROUP WORKSHOP November 4-6, 1998, Laurel, MD The Data Management Working Group (DMWG) of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is pleased to announce the third in a series of annual workshops focusing on data center operational issues. This year's workshop, hosted by NASA, is devoted to data archiving issues and is directed toward data center, library and archives operational staff. The venue for the workshop will be the National Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, MD. The workshop is limited to 100 attendees and the cost of participation is $50, which includes meals and evening programs. For more details regarding this workshop or to register, please contact the workshop organizers or visit the workshop web page: http://gcmd.nasa.gov/dmwg98/ Data Archiving Workshop contacts: - Lola Olsen, NASA/GSFC, Tel: +1 (301) 614-5361 Fax: +1 (301) 614-5268, E-mail: olsen@gcmd.nasa.gov - Karsten Shein, Raytheon, Tel: +1 (301) 441-4214 Fax: +1 (301) 441-4335, E-mail: shein@gcmd.nasa.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------------- And earlier during the first week of November... SCIENTIFIC DATA CENTERS SYMPOSIUM HOSTED BY RAYTHEON & NOAA/NESDIS November 2-4, Silver Spring, MD Preceding the DMWG workshop, Raytheon in partnership with NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS), will be hosting the Third Annual Raytheon Science Data Centers Symposium on November 2-4 at the NOAA Science Center in Silver Spring, MD. Intended primarily for Raytheon, government, and university employees, the symposium brings together a broad group of predominantly space and Earth science data centers and data management facilities to share visions, approaches, technologies, procedures, and practices for improving the services that are offered to researchers, educational institutions, and the general public. The theme for this year's symposium is: "Interoperability: The Next Generation of Data Access." If you'd like more information on the Data Centers Symposium, including contact information, abstract submission (attendees are invited to submit abstracts for poster or oral presentations), and registration, visit: http://www.stx.com/dcs98 Scientific Data Centers Symposium contacts: - Lou Mayo, Raytheon, Tel: +1 (301) 286-0165, E-mail: lmayo@pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov - Marc McCloy, NOAA/NESDIS, +1 (301) 713-3580, E-mail: mmccloy@nesdis.noaa.gov The conference and workshop are both relevant to data management and do not overlap. One could plan to attend both and not miss a session. If you know of anyone who may have an interest in these conferences, please forward this announcement to them. Our apologies if you should happen to receive multiple copies of this announcement. =================== End of message =================