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Join us for the MDC Summit on September 12-13 in Washington, DC

Please note - All times are in EDT.
All events occur at our conference venue, the University of California, Washington Center (UCDC). More info

Day 1 - Tuesday September 12

12:30pm

Coffee and registration

1:00pm

Welcome by Iratxe Puebla

1:10pm

Defining the Need for Open Data Metrics

Daniella Lowenberg, University of California Office of the President

1:45pm

Open Global Data Citation Corpus

Matt Buys, DataCite and Carly Strasser, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

2:10pm

Democratizing Data

Julia Lane, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

2:30pm

Discussion session

3:30pm

Coffee break

3:55pm

Policy and Administrative Priorities for Data Metrics in the US

Moderator: Julia Lane, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

Speakers: Nancy Potok (NAPx Consulting and New York University), Matthew Soldner (US Department of Education), Lauren Supplee (Administration for Children and Families), Maryam Zaringhalam (White House Office of Science & Technology Policy)

4:50pm

Takeaways from the day and goals for Day 2

5:30pm

Reception

Day 2 - Wednesday September 13

8:30am

Coffee

9:00am

Welcome by Iratxe Puebla

9:05am

Five years since the US Evidence-act.

Nancy Potok, NAPx Consulting and New York University

9:45am

Making Data Metrics a Funding Priority

Moderator: Carly Strasser, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Speakers: Michele Avissar-Whiting (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Ishwar Chandramouliswaran (National Institutes of Health), Hannah Hope (Wellcome Trust)

10:20am

Coffee break

10:45am

Supporting Data Metrics Across Scholarly Communications and Academia

Moderator: Damian Pattinson, eLife

Speakers: Rebecca Bryant (OCLC), Scott Edmunds (GigaScience), Varsha Khodiyar (Echobyte)

11:20am

Incorporating Data Metrics in Tenure & Promotion processes

Moderator: Jamie Wittenberg, University of Colorado Boulder

Speakers: Giorgio Ascoli (George Mason University), Jeffrey Blume (University of Virginia), Bernard Mair (Association of Public and Land-grant Universities), Jean-Baptiste Poline (The Neuro, Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital)

11:55am

Meaningful Data Metrics: The State of Evidence from Bibliometrics Studies on Data Reuse

Moderator: Stefanie Haustein, University of Ottawa and ScholCommLab

Speakers: Nicolas Robinson-Garcia (University of Granada), Mike Thelwall (University of Sheffield), Thed van Leeuwen (Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University)

12:30pm

It Can Be Done! Breakout discussion

1:00pm

Closing