Pre-workshop teleconference #2

Pre-workshop teleconference #2

A teleconference for workshop participants

Time: 

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

Connection details:

Webex details sent to participants by email

Apologies:

Peter Winstanley, Wendy Thomas, Michelle Edwards 

Attendees: 

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

Teleconference recording