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1st October Monday

1st October Monday

Owned by Simon Cox

TimeTopicLeaderDetails
09:00-09:10Welcome and workshop introductionJoachim WackerowHere are the building blocks for the week
09:10-10:30

Individual introductions

Goals of the Workshop

Michelle Edwards

All

Steve McEachern

10:30-10:45Break

10:45-12:15

Background to the CODATA Initiative

Introductions from the Pilots


Simon Hodson

Simon Hodson - Context, goals [slides]

Fernando Gouvea Reis - Infectious Diseases [data characteristics spreadsheet; Google sheets version]

Virginia Murray - Disaster Risk Reduction / Sendai

12:15-13:45Lunch

13:45-15:15

Exercise: the metadata spectrum








Simon Cox






Steve McEachern

What activities does metadata support? (also relate to FAIR)

  • Search/discovery     FA - study level
  • Transformation        I - variable level, also schema, format
  • Analysis and use      R - semantics, quality

Axes: 

  • Generic- vs Domain-specific descriptions
  • Study- vs Variable-oriented descriptors
15:15-15:30Break

15:30-17:00Exercise: continued

continued ...


Dinner