[CODATA-international] The Beijing Declaration on Research Data
Katja Mayer
katja.mayer at univie.ac.at
Tue Nov 12 05:37:29 EST 2019
Dear Asha,
Thanks for sharing the declaration. It is a great document and a very
valuable knowledge resource. Since I am currently preparing a workshop
on science diplomacy for diplomats with the special focus on Open
Science and data sharing for Global Health, and I would like to use the
declaration there, I was wondering, what the next steps are. How is the
declaration going to be used?
With best regards
Katja Mayer
Am 08.11.2019 um 09:55 schrieb Asha CODATA:
> Grand challenges related to the environment, human health, and
> sustainability confront science and society. Understanding
> and mitigating these challenges in a rapidly changing environment
> require data[1] to be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and
> Reusable) and as open as possible on a global basis. Scientific
> discovery must not be impeded unnecessarily by fragmented and closed
> systems, and the stewardship of research data should avoid defaulting
> to the traditional, proprietary approach of scholarly
> publishing. Therefore, the adoption of new policies and principles,
> coordinated and implemented globally, is necessary for research data
> and the associated infrastructures, tools, services, and practices.
> The time to act on the basis of solid policies for research data is now.
> The Beijing Declaration is intended as a timely statement of core
> principles to encourage global cooperation, especially for public
> research data. It builds on and acknowledges the many national and
> international efforts that have been undertaken in the policy and
> technical spheres on a worldwide basis. These major contributions are
> listed in the Appendix.
> Several emergent global trends justify and precipitate this
> declaration of principles:
>
> * Massive global challenges require multilateral and
> cross-disciplinary cooperation and the broad reuse of data
> to improve coherence concerning recent UN landmark agreements,
> such as the Paris Climate Agreement, the Sendai Framework for
> Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
> the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Plant Treaty, the
> World Humanitarian Summit, and others. The comprehensive
> agendas for action provided by these agreements requires access to
> and reuse of all kinds of data.
> * Research and problem-solving, especially addressing the SDG
> challenges, are increasingly complex and driven by ‘big data’,
> resulting in the need to combine and reuse very diverse data
> resources across multiple fields. This poses an enormous challenge
> in the interoperability of data and responsible stewardship, with
> full respect for privacy.
> * Rapid advances in the technologies that generate and analyze data
> pose major challenges concerning data
> volume, harmonization, management, sharing, and reuse. At the same
> time, emerging technologies (including machine learning) offer new
> opportunities that require access to reusable data available in
> distributed, yet interoperable, international data resources.
> * Changing norms and ethics encourage high-quality research through
> greater transparency, promote the reuse of data, and
> improve trustworthiness through the production of verifiable and
> reproducible research results. Increasing the openness of research
> data is efficient, improving the public return on investment, and
> generating positive externalities.
> * Open Science initiatives are emerging globally, including in less
> economically developed countries. There consequently
> are opportunities for these countries to take advantage of
> technological developments to develop a greater share in
> scientific production. Without determined action, there is also a
> risk that the divide in scientific production will widen.
>
> In September 2019, CODATA and its Data Policy Committee convened in
> Beijing to discuss current data policy issues and developed a set of
> data policies adapted to the new Open Science paradigm. The
> Declaration proposed below is the result of that meeting and is now
> put forward for public review.
> *The Beijing Declaration on Research Data read here
> <http://www.codata.org/uploads/Beijing%20Declaration-19-11-07-FINAL.pdf> -
> Attached.
> *
> [1] In the attached document we deliberately use the word data very
> broadly, to comprise data (stricto sensu) and the ecosystem of digital
> things that relate to data, including metadata, software
> and algorithms, as well as physical samples and analogue artefacts
> (and the digital representations and metadata relating to these things).
>
> Thanks,
> Asha
>
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