[CODATA-international] Reviews and comments requested on Draft White Paper: 'Gap Analysis on Open Data Interconnectivity for Global Disaster Risk Research'

[Asha CODATA]

*Reviews and comments requested on Draft White Paper: 'Gap Analysis on Open
Data Interconnectivity for Global Disaster Risk Research'*

The CODATA Task Group on Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research
invites external review and comment on a draft White Paper which presents a
'Gap Analysis on Open Data Interconnectivity for Global Disaster Risk
Research’.

Comments are invited by 30 September 2016.  Comments may be sent to the
Task Group coordinators:

   - LI Guoqing (ligq at radi.ac.cn);
   - Carol SONG (carolxsong at purdue.edu);
   - ZHANG Hongyue (zhanghy01 at radi.ac.cn);

or may be made directly on a Google Doc version at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u4v9NKJw6sWyIzpoQTJ4ELjp50KAO7c66Yz-WRQe-hA/edit

Please consult both the summary document and the white paper itself.


   - White Paper: Gap Analysis on Open Data Interconnectivity for Global
   Disaster Risk Research
   - Summary: Gap Analysis on Open Data Interconnectivity for Global
   Disaster Risk Research


>From the Introduction to the White Paper:

Gaps in data infrastructure, data sharing policies and data use governance
must be addressed to unleash the potential of disaster research in helping
regions, especially the developing countries, to improve risk assessment,
reduction and mitigation. Two related areas are being studied: open
data , and data interconnectivity . The data­driven nature of disaster
research demands open access to scientific data, as it is impossible to
fully understand the cause and impact of a disaster event
without consulting multiple types of data. In addition to open data,
disaster researchers face perhaps a greater challenge –to find relevant
data sets in a “sea” of distributed and disparate data resources. The
next generation data infrastructure must provide linkage of data, helping
researchers to find relevant data across distributed data holdings.

As stated in the Sendai Framework, disaster risk reduction requires a
multidisciplinary approach and decision­making based on the open exchange
and dissemination of disaggregated data. It is urgent to enhance the
scientific and technical work on disaster risk reduction and its
mobilization through the coordination of existing networks and scientific
research institutions at all levels and in all regions. In answering this
call to the science community, it is of utmost importance to promote and
practice the collection, management, opening up and sharing of scientific
data related to disaster risk research, as well as the employment of
relevant technologies and applications, consistently and globally. This
white paper, supported by ICSU and CODATA communities, aims at
systematically analyzing the needs for the data infrastructure proposed in
the Sendai Framework and providing the conceptual building blocks to help
realize the Sendai imperative.

Our vision for the next generation disaster risk research data
infrastructure is an interconnected, collective repository of observational
and derived disaster­related data that is open, discoverable, and easily
accessible and usable by all, enabled by the revolutionary digital
technologies today and open access policy embraced by users and providers.
This paper aims at identifying the gaps in technology and relevant policies
that prevent effective interconnection of disaster related data and
information for use in research, education and public engagement. It
examines the current state of information technology for data management
and sharing, as well as policies regarding data availability at various
levels, and discusses potential solutions and examples toward open data and
data interconnectivity for disaster research.
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