5-8 November 2018, Gaborone: International Data Week 2018

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Theme: The Digital Frontiers of Global Science
http://www.internationaldataweek.org/

Announcements in various places, e.g. https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/2017-September/004606.html .

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Date has been changed to avoid clashes with UN World Data Forum (#226) and the
GEO-XV Plenary.

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Includes RDA 12 and SciDataCon:
https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenaries/rda-twelfth-plenary-meeting-part-international-data-week-2018-gaborone-botswana
https://www.scidatacon.org/

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My session details for the week sit at https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/events/blob/master/International-Data-Week-2018.md .

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I met Nonso Jideofor of https://www.theengineroom.org/ , an NGO whose "mission is to accelerate social change" and that "helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact." - from https://www.theengineroom.org/about/ .

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Spoke to https://twitter.com/phaikyeong about making ethics data FAIR and sent her the link to https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/events/blob/master/PIDapalooza-2016.md.

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I set up https://preview.tinyurl.com/IDW2018Wiki to point to
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/International_Data_Week_2018 ,
which has the posters.

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Lots of good vibes for the African Open Science platform - some pointers in https://twitter.com/simonhodson99/status/1059351662249291777

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Botswana president getting praise from international participants for including data in political planning, e.g.

• https://twitter.com/CODATANews/status/1059382432074481664

but also questions from locals about the lack of a data protection policy:
https://twitter.com/poetdrea/status/1059409907030654976

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"Enabling FAIR Data Commitment Statement"
https://twitter.com/ShelleyStall/status/1059349197219086336
http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/commitment-to-enabling-fair-data-in-the-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences/
https://twitter.com/DrFionaLM/status/1059382073696444416
http://www.copdess.org/
https://twitter.com/DrFionaLM/status/1059383569976573953
https://twitter.com/DrFionaLM/status/1059380832044048384

https://twitter.com/copernicus_org/status/1059440781302398976 - have changed their policy accordingly

Some background:
https://twitter.com/JakeYeston/status/1059604577253838849
https://eos.org/agu-news/advancing-fair-data-in-earth-space-and-environmental-science

PLOS post:
https://twitter.com/joergheber/status/1059712938146217984
https://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2018/11/05/supporting-fair-data-in-the-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences/

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FAIRsharing
https://twitter.com/FAIRsharing_org/status/1059377184454987776

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On open data, privacy and trust:
https://twitter.com/ChipoMsengezi/status/1059393969669447681

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https://twitter.com/lisafederer/status/1059440458563284993
https://twitter.com/lisafederer/status/1059441594724769793
https://osp.od.nih.gov/2018/10/11/nih-seeks-public-comment-proposed-provisions-future-draft-data-management-sharing-policy/

• comments invited until 10 December

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https://twitter.com/diatomsRcool/status/1059371189351710720

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https://twitter.com/Em_BeeEducation/status/1059442029908975617

• OpenCon reflections https://thefutureisinclusion.wordpress.com/2018/11/05/open-reflections-opencon-2018/

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Generic note: there is a severe lack of power outlets around the venue, so I am often closing my laptop to safe battery, taking notes on the phone instead, which is less convenient and thus less comprehensive.

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https://twitter.com/nikki_crowster/status/1059706704215109632 on relation of African Open Science Platform, Open Science and SDGs

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That keynote by Ismail Serageldin was recorded.

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Serageldin's credo:
https://twitter.com/simonhodson99/status/1059711421112639488
http://www.serageldin.com/Home/Index.aspx

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Scientific Data Challenges for Sustainable Development
https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/164/
https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/164/paper/594/
Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service:
http://drr.ikcest.org/

• I got the slides from Yuelei Yuan

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Cool tool for cleaning up the LOD cloud: http://lodlaundromat.org/

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Standby Task Force for humanitarian support
http://www.standbytaskforce.org/

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Several interesting presentations on open data in Taiwan:
https://identi.ca/trc/note/IDlhvf_ZSryc-XzGA5Gg1Q

• Communal Sharing of Sensitive Data
• Retooling An Open Data Repository for A Research Data Repository
  • uses Wikidata and https://data.depositar.io/en/
• Case Studies on Mutually Enriched Data Projects

Seen via https://twitter.com/trc4identica

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Big data sits at the table of sustainable development
https://news.globallandscapesforum.org/30726/big-data-sits-at-the-table-of-sustainable-development/

via https://twitter.com/CGIAR_Data/status/1061317611848417281

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"Africa must invest in capacity building in data science, predictive data analytics and timely reporting to help realize the impact change this can make to livelihoods"

https://twitter.com/sarah_ogbebor/status/1061272301897945090

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Slides from Ian Foster's talk on data friction:
https://www.slideshare.net/ianfoster/data-tribology-overcoming-data-friction-with-cloud-automation-122645423

• with plugs for http://cloud4science.org/ and https://docs.globus.org/modern-research-data-portal/ but no reference to Frictionless Data

See also https://twitter.com/Africa_evidence/status/1060430487217418240

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https://servirglobal.net/

SERVIR connects space to village...

by helping developing countries use satellite data to address critical challenges in food security, water resources, weather and climate, land use, and natural disasters.

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Wellcome released a new open access policy:
https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/wellcome-updating-its-open-access-policy

• direct link: https://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wellcome-open-access-policy-2020.pdf
• current policy: https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/guidance/open-access-policy

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Full text of the opening speech by Botswana's president: https://twitter.com/angieref/status/1061970578914115584 .

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Conference report from the South African National Antarctic Programm
http://blogs.sun.ac.za/antarcticlegacy/2018/11/13/alsa-attended-scidatacon-idw2018-in-botswana/
https://twitter.com/Antarcticlegacy/status/1062431218162196481

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San Code of research ethics
http://trust-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/San-Code-of-RESEARCH-Ethics-Booklet-final.pdf

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FAIRshake
A System to Evaluate Digital Objects
https://fairshake.cloud/

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CODATA Data Integration Initiative

http://dataintegration.codata.org/

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Comments open on the IDW2018 statement:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z56eC6sH-J30Jwq8U25vqgqs1hjUpJkCgOAixmozgJk/edit
https://twitter.com/IntDataWeek/status/1060561968074051584

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"Ethical market and social research more relevant than ever for effective decision making for government and businesses - and now more visible thanks to #FairData"
https://twitter.com/MJLawie/status/1060295765489213440

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Edinburgh's efforts towards becoming "Europe's data capital" came up too:
https://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/blog/2018/07/09/world-class-data-infrastructure-fundamental-enabler-data-driven-innovation
via https://twitter.com/kevingashley/status/1060433204644118528

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USAID's Development Data Library:
https://data.usaid.gov/

https://twitter.com/USAID/status/1062367192220659713
https://twitter.com/bpushed/status/1060293506080669697

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Course offerings: First aid for responsible data scientists
http://fair.sobigdata.eu/moodle/

via https://twitter.com/RosieHLib/status/1060433758938128384

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Experimental service to search data across Invenio instances:
https://hasdai.org/

Seen via https://twitter.com/jr_kenyon/status/1060260686415257602

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First write-up I've seen of the week:
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/blog/work-together-not-alone-doing-things-batswana-way

includes a link to Barend Mons' candidacy for CODATA president, as which he was elected during the week: https://codata.org/blog/2018/09/30/barend-mons-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee/

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An OpenAIRE-indexed RDA12 poster: Slavec, Ana, Burnard, Michael D., & Kutnar, Andreja. (2018). Data management at the InnoRenew CoE. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1489186

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One of the most interesting sessions for me was on data sovereignty, particularly from the perspective of indigenous data. Unfortunately, the WiFi in the room was basically down, and so was my laptop's battery, so I don't have any notes but still some positive memories that just crossed my mind again.

https://www.rd-alliance.org/ig-international-indigenous-data-sovereignty-rda-12th-plenary-meeting

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See also
https://twitter.com/chutneyboy/status/1060182249931501568
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_sovereignty
https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/author/Q61639995

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See also Good Data Practices for Indigenous Data Sovereignty.