Open Data and Big Data Capacity Building Initiative

Open Data and Big Data Capacity Building Initiative

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  Open Data andBig Data Capacity Building Initiative Dr Simon Hodson Executive Director, CODATA www.codata.org SKA Cape Town 12 June 2015
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  CODATA: Committee onData for Science and Technology “Strengthen international science for the benefit of society ICSU’s Mission CODATA’s Mission by promoting improved scientific and technical data management and use.”
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  Data Revolution: Challengesand Opportunities  The digital age has brought a data revolution that presents science with major challenges and opportunities.  Opportunities because we can gather unprecedented volumes and types of data and analyse them far more quickly.  Exploiting these opportunities is the major challenge of international science.  Challenges for data infrastructure, networks and analysis.  Fundamental methodological issues for reproducibility and transparency.  Challenges and opportunities for science systems, technical and human.  Creating a world that counts: Mobilising the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development.  GODAN-ODI Report: improving agriculture, food and nutrition with open data.
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  CODATA Strategy: Harnessing theData Revolution Exploiting the data revolution is the major priority for international science. CODATA strategy lays out three priorities and a plan that shows we can deliver for ICSU on these priorities. Promote intelligently open data  data policies: supporting implementation of data principles and practice Adapt to the transformation in research  data science: addressing the frontier issues of data science Promote data skills, data scientists, data managers  data education: capacity building (particularly in LMICs) New CODATA President Geoffrey Boulton, FRS Chair of Science as an Open Enterprise Report New CODATA Executive Committee elected at GA in New Delhi, Nov 2014
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  Data Science Capacity Building:Training CODATA Training in Big Data Science Beijing, 4-20 June 2014 http://bit.ly/CODATA- China_Training_2104-Call Training Workshop on Open Data, Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology, 3-5 August 2014 http://bit.ly/codata-training- jkuat CODATA ISI Workshop on Big Data, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, 9-20 March 2015 http://drtc1.isibang.ac.in/bdwo rkshop/
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  International Workshop onOpen Data for Science and Sustainability in Developing Countries  Strong endorsement for the workshop from Kenyan Cabinet Secretary and from local universities and research institutes.  Cabinet Secretary Dr. Fred Matiang’i: called on CODATA and other international organisations to 'become more visible in education and capacity- building, by developing science and educational programs and activities that focus on data and information’ in developing countries.  Aannounced data centre to be established at JKUAT  ‘JKUAT has now established an ICT Centre of Excellence and Open Data (iCEOD) that was part of the Nairobi-CODATA conference recommendation’  Developed a set of Principles of Preservation of and Open Access to Research Data in Developing Counties  Prepared outline of Guidelines for their implementation: workshop at GEO Plenary in Mexico, Nov 2015.
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  Principles, Policies andPractices Expert Report on data policies for Danish e- Infrastructure Group Regional Workshops on Data Citation Principles and Practice, South Africa, October  CODATA Data Policy Committee: key means of delivery.  ‘The Data Agenda for International Science’  Register of Good Practice and Data Policy Assessment Tool  Means of assisting good practice and self-evaluation for national authorities, research institutions and data intensive programmes.  CODATA has strong expertise. Looking for resource for a researcher to help deliver.  Regional Workshops on Data Citation Principles and Practices.  Developing Data Strategies at regional, national and institutional levels.  Expert Report on data policies Danish e-Infrastructure Group  Collaborating with Polish Science Ministry on Data Policy development  Collaborating with CODATA Kenya on Data Policy development
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  Open Data andData Science Capacity Building Initiative  Data Science Capacity Initiative  Developing framework and partnerships for major data science capacity initiative.  Timely to build on the data needs of the SKA.  Address systemic capacity building requirements including data strategies, data policies, partnerships, infrastructure programmes, skills.  Working with many partners (including GEO, AfriGEOSS, RDA, WDS etc).  Framework for Data Science Summer Schools  Develop curriculum framework and materials.  Certification process.  Partnerships for sustainable model: include MSR, CERN, ICTP.  Pilot school with TWAS and ICTP in summer 2016 and with UCT before then.  Model for standard and specialised schools.
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  Open Data andData Science Capacity Initiative Science International: High level statement of benefits of open data, need for international coordination, role for international science organisations. Open Data and Data Science Capacity Initiative, holistic and systemic, addressing data strategies, data policy, processes and practices in institutions and science systems, infrastructure coordination and skills.
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  Thank you foryour attention! Simon Hodson Executive Director CODATA www.codata.org/blog Email: execdir@codata.org Twitter: @simonhodson99 http://bit.ly/codata_info_14-11 Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96 | Tel (Cell): +33 6 86 30 42 59 CODATA (ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE
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  Data Science SciDataCon 2014,2-5 Nov, New Delhi Workshop on Big Data for International Scientific Programmes, Beijing 8-9 June, 2014 LOD Global Disaster Data Preparing White Paper on Use of LOD for Disaster Data: http://www.codata.or g/task-groups/linked- open-data-for-global- disaster-risk-research Global Roads Data Review of Global Roads Data Development Methodologies: http://bit.ly/globalroads- methods
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  Priority 2: Frontiersof Data Science  International Data Week 2016  Major international conference on data science and related topics.  Brings together the three key international organisations.  Relaunched Data Science Journal.  New Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Sarah Callaghan  Partnership with a dynamic high-quality publisher, committed to OA, to transparency and researcher-led publishing.  Uniform Description System for Nanomaterials.  Inter-Union Work on Data Standards and Ontologies.  Integrating Geospatial Data on the Web.  Data Strategies for Research on Smart Cities  Big Data and Data Integration for International Science. International Data Week 2016 CODATA, Research Data Alliance and World Data System Conference DC Area, USA, September 2016