Open Data and Big DataCapacity Building Initiative

Dr Simon HodsonExecutive Director, CODATA

www.codata.org

SKACape Town

12 June 2015

CODATA: Committee on Data 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.”

Data Revolution: Challenges and 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.

CODATA Strategy:Harnessing the Data 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 PresidentGeoffrey Boulton, FRSChair of Science as an

OpenEnterprise Report

New CODATA Executive Committee elected at GA in New Delhi, Nov

2014

Data ScienceCapacity Building: Training

CODATA Training in Big Data Science

Beijing, 4-20 June 2014http://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 2015http://drtc1.isibang.ac.in/bdworkshop/

International Workshop on Open 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.

Principles, Policies and Practices

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

Open Data and Data 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.

Open Data and Data 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.

Thank you for your attention!

Simon HodsonExecutive Director CODATA

www.codata.org/blogEmail: execdir@codata.orgTwitter: @simonhodson99

http://bit.ly/codata_info_14-11 Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96 | Tel (Cell): +33 6 86 30 42 59

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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.org/task-groups/linked-open-data-for-global-disaster-risk-research

Global RoadsData

Review of Global Roads Data Development

Methodologies:http://bit.ly/globalroads-methods

Priority 2: Frontiers of 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 ConferenceDC Area, USA, September 2016