Data Perspective beyond Alliances

This half-day symposium will be held on 3 March 2016 afternoon as a collocated event of RDA 7th Plenary. It is Co-organized by three data-oriented committees under the Science Council of Japan.  In recent years, we have found a significant growth of metadata systems and data alliances in various scientific domains, and significant efforts have been paid to assure multidisciplinary data usages, as being done by several groups of RDA, CODATA and WDS.  In parallel to these efforts, it will be highly required to have a “foresight” beyond the establishment of interdisciplinary data systems or data alliances.  For example, it is not clear yet what new research field will be opened by multidisciplinary data usage. New problems will be come out by extensive data usages, e.g. data policy, IPR (Intellectual Property Rights), long-term data preservation including security problem, etc. In this symposium we will establish a common understanding on the subjects given above. This symposium will be consisted of invited and contributed talks.

RDA is operating working groups on data interoperability and data publication taking the era of multidisciplinary data usage in consideration. Although the original idea of this event has emerged from CODATA and WDS communities in Japan, outcomes from the symposium will be useful for discussions in RDA and other venues. An additional objective of the symposium is to invite many data-oriented scientists in Japan to international data activities led by RDA, CODATA, and WDS.

1) to propose a strategy to create new research based on multidisciplinary data usages, particularly on studies of environmental change, human health, and disasters;

2) to make clear the strategy to use multidisciplinary data for technological innovation;

3) to identify processes to use scientific data for social activities