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Scientific Data and Knowledge
Professor Lu and Professor Iwata |
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Yongxiang LU, President, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Shuichi IWATA, CODATA President, Co-Chairs of the CODATA 2006 Conference International Steering Committee, welcome you to the 20th International CODATA Conference. The 20 th International CODATA Conference marks the 40 th Anniversary of CODATA, and we are very excited to bring you this important historical event from beautiful Beijing during 23-25 October, 2006. The world is entering a new era of enormous potential for everyone, that of the Information Society and expanded human communication. CODATA 2006 will be a great opportunity to promote the use of scientific data and knowledge and harness the benefits of the Information Society to reach scientific and developmental targets. These targets build upon strides the scientific community has taken during this information explosion, particularly in the areas of data and technology. Data have become both more accessible and more necessary to maintain; more abundant and more complex to manipulate; more global and more expected to share. The 20 th International CODATA Conference, aptly titled “Scientific Data and Knowledge within the Information Society,” will address issues such as fair and equitable access to data, data archiving, data protection and data security– to name but a few of the issues that will be touched upon. Science has never relied more heavily on the collection, management and dissemination of data, and CODATA's task to contribute to all aspects of data, from preservation to sharing and value extraction and addition, will be addressed at this International Conference. CODATA 2006 will feature advanced topic sessions such as:
CODATA 2006 features keynote talks, plenary lectures and contributed paper sessions that provide new and important insights about the information revolution and its impact on science and how humans live on a daily basis. This important conference brings together the imminent experts to discuss and share the most exciting new developments in scientific data work, especially on a multi-disciplinary and holistic basis. We look forward to your participation at what promises to be a very exciting event. Shuichi IWATA and Yongxiang LU ,
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