A teleconference for workshop participants

Time: 

2018-09-20T20:00:00.00Z (in your timezone)

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Peter Winstanley, Wendy Thomas, Michelle Edwards 

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Agenda: 

Introduction - SimonH

Infectious diseases - Laura, Fernando

• Background material
• concentrate on Ebola
• big problem with sub-standard/falsified pharmaceuticals
• population at risk from sub-optimal treatments
• Many datasets are not published using standards, in some cases not even data-dictionaries,
  • many data dictionaries are highly bespoke
  • Visual recognition used to 
• in some cases need special software (e.g. geospatial), or need to pay, or to register
  • paywalls and registration demands are a big problem - !A from FAIR

SimonC: How many of the datasets are visible in Google Dataset Search? 

Disaster Risk Reduction - Virginia

• background material
• Sendai Framework, linked to Sustainable Development Goals
  • Reducing mortality, infrastructure disruption, improve risk registers
• Focus here on Mortality - i.e. number of deaths
  • direct, indirect, short vs long-term is major complication

Resilient cities and regions - Andrew, Philipp, Paola

• lots of activity in Sustainable cities (ISO Standard)
• Case study approach - 3-5 cities

Medellin - air quality, linked to transport → public health and wellbeing

• big variety of actors
• urban data platform

• Citizen science
• intra-urban variations
• local vs metropolitan
• Need to use some sensitive data ... 

CKAN-based portal launched 2018-09-18! 

PhilA: can CODATA team have access to sensitive data -

• Paola -MOU in prep re insurance data - may need individual confidentiality agreements with scientists
• PhilA - one-off data formats and structures require individual conversions, not scalable to work with ... 
• EricP - if no properly anonymized data is available, then made-up data is guaranteed safe, but useful for testing methodology

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