Initial Work for the ISC CODATA Decadal Programme
This page is for the initial work for the ISC CODATA Decadal Programme on 'Making Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges'.
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To face many of today’s global grand challenges, data is needed from different domains and disciplines, and from different institutional levels, and it must be interoperable to be useful. Research projects in such fields, whether for policy or scientific purposes, often involve the use of data from a wide variety of sources, ranging from specific, local data sets to those supplied by higher-level national and international organizations. A huge proportion of research effort is expended to integrate and harmonize this data so that a meaningful analysis can be conducted. Global grand challenges require data coming from a wide range of domains and institutional levels, presenting us with diverse issues:
It is widely recognised that the challenge of making data FAIR and combining data within domains and for cross-domain research is one of the major obstacles to scientific progress: it is costly, it inhibits reproducibility and retards discovery. A lot of work is going on in a number of domains, and you are undoubtedly already involved in some related initiatives. The ISC CODATA Decadal Programme has a number of features which we think add value to existing work.
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Working Groups |
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Four initial Working Groups emerged from discussions at the Dagstuhl workshop in 2019 on “Interoperability of Metadata Standards in Cross-Domain Science, Health, and Social Science Applications”.
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Workshop |
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A third Dagstuhl workshop on “Interoperability of Metadata Standards in Cross-Domain Science, Health, and Social Science Applications” in 2020 will act as a face-to-face meeting and as a sprint for the working groups, following and augmenting their online collaboration. |