[CODATA-international] High Level Panel on Future Data Space: How a vision of the internet of FAIR data & Services becomes a reality

Wed Dec 15 00:20:49 EST 2021

Organised by the FAIR Digital Objects Forum, this High Level Panel
featuring innovative thinkers and discussants will take place online on 27
January 2022, 13.00 to 17.00 UTC.

Register here: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/92302933025

Large sums of money, and equally great ambitions, are already being
directed towards developing data/research infrastructures, for science and
for industry, and there is no doubt that much additional awareness, new
insights and new types of services and tools will emerge. Despite these
huge investments there is no agreed view on how the future data space
should be organized, what its key pillars should be and how access to data
will be managed and facilitated. EOSC
<https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/our-digital-future/open-science/european-open-science-cloud-eosc_en>
for
example is based on the FAIR principles
<https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618> and a distributed service
landscape, with further specifications currently being derived by expert
Task Forces. Similar to the ESFRI <https://www.esfri.eu/> process, NFDI
<https://www.nfdi.de/en-gb> relies on a process of discipline-driven
infrastructure building, while recognizing that this leaves a gap to be
bridged with respect to common services and standards. NIH Commons
<https://pebourne.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/the-commons/> a conceptual
framework for a digital environment was designed to allow efficient
storage, manipulation, and sharing of research objects. Meanwhile, big
industry is defining strategies for offering services on data based on
proprietary binding mechanisms, seriously hampering innovation.

This panel will initiate a discussion across initiatives about major
organizational principles and key pillars, and is intended as the first of
a series of meetings on this topic. Its goal, therefore, is to
identify major aspects that need to be considered when examining the
emerging future global data space. For this purpose, we invited
four “thinkers” whom we know dare to look ahead without being bound
by current projects and political considerations.

The panelists will present their ideas about essential aspects of the
future data space. Then well-known experts from different backgrounds will
comment on these ideas and give the panelists the chance to respond.
Finally, the floor will be opened to the audience to raise questions,
present views and give comments.

*Further information
<https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/announcement-high-level-panel-v4.pdf>*

*Organisers: *George Strawn, Peter Wittenburg (FDO Forum)

*Moderators: *Christine Kirkpatrick, Dimitris Koureas (FDO Forum)

*Panel Participants:*
Prof. Dr. Paolo Budroni, TU Vienna, Austria
Prof. Dr. Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford, UK
Prof. Dr. Beth Plale, Indiana University, USA
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn, MPI for the History of Science, Germany

*Commenters:*
Dr. Jean Claude Burgelman, Free University Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Debora Drucker, Embrapa, Brazil
Prof. Dr. Sabina Leonelli, University of Exeter, UK
Prof. Dr. Sarah Nusser, Iowa State University, USA

*Panellists and Commenters:*

Panelists

PAOLO BUDRONI

Since 2019 Paolo Budroni has been a senior researcher at TU Wien and Head
of the EOSC and International Liaison Office ( TU Wien Library). His other
positions include Chair of the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group,
Coordinator of the Austrian EOSC Mandated Organisation, and member of
permanent staff of the University of Vienna (since 1991). Budroni holds a
PhD in Philosophy, Art History, and Romance Philology (University of
Vienna, 1986).

LUCIANO FLORIDI
[image: Luciano Floridi]Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and
Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, and Professor of
Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna. His
areas of expertise include digital ethics, the ethics of AI, the philosophy
of information and the philosophy of technology, topics on which he is an
internationally renowned authority and has published more than 300 works.
He is deeply engaged with emerging policy initiatives on the socio-ethical
value and implications of digital technologies and their applications, and
collaborates closely on these topics with many governments and companies
worldwide.

[image: Beth Plale Panelist]

BETH PLALE
Plale is the McRobbie Professor of Computer Engineering in the Luddy School
of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, and
serves at the University as Executive Director of the Pervasive Technology
Institute and Director of the Data To Insight Center. Plale’s research
interests are in AI knowledge representation, safe and trustworthy AI, data
management, data provenance, and cloud computing. Plale served at the US
National Science Foundation (2017-2021) in a policy position in open
science, and is one of the founding members of the Research Data Alliance
(RDA) where she served as inaugural chair of the RDA Technical Advisory
Board.

[image: Jürgen Renn Panelist]JÜRGEN RENN
Jürgen Renn is a German historian of science, and Director at the Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin since 1994. He is
honorary professor for History of Science at both the Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin. In addition, he has taught at
Boston University, at the ETH in Zurich and at the University of Tel Aviv.
Among his most recent publications is The Evolution of Knowledge:
Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene
<https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691171982/the-evolution-of-knowledge>
(2020,
Princeton University Press).

Commenters

[image: Jean-Claude Burgelman Commenter]

JEAN-CLAUDE BURGELMAN
Jean-Claude Burgelman is professor of Open Science at the Free University
of Brussels. He retired on 1-3-2020 from the European Commission as Open
Access Envoy and head of unit Open Science at DG RTD. Since 2014, he and
his team developed the EC’s polices on open science, the science cloud,
open data and access. He joined the European Commission in 1999 as a
Visiting Scientist in the Joint Research Centre (the Institute of
Prospective Technological Studies – IPTS), where he became Head of the
Information Society Unit. In January 2008, he moved to the Bureau of
European Policy Advisers (attached to the EC president) as adviser for
innovation policy.

SARAH M. NUSSER
Sarah M. Nusser is professor emerita of statistics at Iowa State University
and research professor at the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity
Institute. She previously served as vice president for research at Iowa
State University and director of ISU’s Center for Survey Statistics and
Methodology. Nusser is actively involved in US efforts to promote open
science, transparency, and public access to research data. She serves as
chair of the US National Academies Board on Research Data and Information,
is senior fellow with the Association of American Universities on its
Accelerating Public Access to Research Data initiative.

[image: Sabina Leonelli Commenter]

SABINA LEONELLI
Sabina Leonelli serves as the Co-Director of the Exeter Centre for the
Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), where she leads the Data Studies
research strand; theme lead for the “Data Governance, Openness and Ethics”
strand of the Exeter Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
(IDSAI); and Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London. She is
also Editor-in-Chief of the international journal History and Philosophy of
the Life Sciences, together with Professor Giovanni Boniolo, and Associate
Editor for the Harvard Data Science Review.

[image: Debora Drucker Commenter]

DEBORA DRUCKER
Debora Drucker is a research data management specialist at Embrapa Digital
Agriculture, one of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Research Centers. She is one of the co-chairs of the Research Data Alliance
IGAD Community of Practice (Improving Global Agricultural Data) and
Professionalizing Data Stewardship Interest Group and an expert at the Data
and Knowledge Task Force of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform
on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). She holds a degree in
Forestry from University of São Paulo, Master in Ecology at the National
Institute for Amazonian Research and Phd in Environment and Society from
University of Campinas.

Thanks,

Asha
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