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Dear Colleagues, The final event in the e-Science Institute Data-Intensive Research theme is being juxtaposed with the XLDB-Europe workshop, see http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/Final_Outreach_Workshop and http://xldb.eu/xldb_europe_2011/. These will be held in the week of Monday 6th to Friday 10th June 2011. They are deliberately timed to precede SIGMOD in Athens the following week. You are all invited to the DIR workshop and strongly encouraged to apply for an invitation to XLDB-Europe 2011. We intend that these be very exciting events demonstrating recent progress in Data-Intensive methods and their application. On the final two days, XLDB-Europe has a preference for large-scale data; otherwise we want to encourage multi-scale thinking -- adapting the approach to the scale and sophistication that is needed on each occasion. Please consider contributing material to the workshops. There are three invitations to contribute on the web site (http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/Final_Outreach_Workshop#Calls_for_Contributions): 1) DIR updates - substantial recent progress 2) DIR Research Village - presenting your group's achievements, methods and technology 3) DIR lightening talks - presenting the gist of important new ideas If you can think of other ways of contributing, please let us know [log in to unmask] (ignore the bounces message – it is a moderated address. The programmes for both workshops are well developed. You can view the DIR workshop programme here http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/Final_Outreach_Workshop#Outline_Programme as it develops. An outline of the provisional programme for XLDB-Europe 2011 appears below, and is also being updated regularly on the web page: we are awaiting a few more confirmations. Wednesday 8th June In Business School from 08:30 registration open all day Programme shown on http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/Wednesday_8th_June Thursday 9th June In the Business School 8:30 - registration + light breakfast 9:00 - opening & welcome 9:10 - Michael Wise, LOFAR project manager, ASTRON (Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy) "Experience with the data from LOFAR" 9:45-10:55 Open Debate: "What does Research Infrastructure really need for Data?" Leader: Roger Barga, Microsoft Research Redmond Leaders of selected ESFRI projects have been invited 10:55 - Coffee + breakout groups "What are the three innovations really needed to make research infrastructures work?" 12:00 - Reporting back discussion Walk to the Informatics Forum 12:30 - Lunch Walk to the business school 13:45 - Open Debate: What is really needed to share research data globally? Leader: (TBC) Leaders of global collaborations have been invited 14:45 - Invitation to Relevant European Flagship Projects to Pitch to XLDB-Europe 2011 15:45 - coffee break 16:15 - SELECTED Lighting talks, that make a pitch to the Data-Intensive community 17:00 - A match-making opportunity with the Flagship Projects 18:00 - end of session 19:30 - dinner at Royal College of Physicians Friday 10 June In Business school 9:00 - Támas Budavŕri, Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University, "The pitfalls of statistics on large volumes of data" 9:45 - TBD 10:30 - Coffee Break 11:00-13:00 Open debate: "What will really work?" Leader: Jacek Becla, SLAC National Lab & LSST, Stanford (founder of the XLDB series) Peter Baumann, School of Engineering & Science, Jacobs University, Bremen, "RASDAMAN" Martin Kirsten, CWI, "MonetDB & SciLens" Anastasia Allamaki, Director Data-Intensive Applications and Systems Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, "TBC" Roger Barga, Microsoft Research Redmond, "The Excel Datascope" 13:00 Lunch in the forum 14:00 Facilities for small short meetings and practical work (contact Jo Newman [log in to unmask] if you want space and an announcement) or a Guided Edinburgh tour. I hope that we will see you all at these workshops. To register for both, please go to the registration page here: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/1140/booking.cfm. With best wishes Malcolm Atkinson -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.