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
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
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