[CODATA-international] Stop squandering data: make units of measurement machine-readable: CODATA DRUM TG comment article in Nature

[Asha CODATA]

The CODATA Task Group on Digital Representation of Units of Measurement
(DRUM) <https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/drum/> and colleagues
from the CIPM’s Digital SI Task Group
<https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/ci/cipm/wg/cipm-tg-dsi> have published
a comment article in Nature.

‘Stop squandering data: make units of measurement machine-readable’
<https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01233-w> describes some of the
pervasive challenges caused by “sloppy or missing units”.  The current
activity around FAIR cannot succeed unless the fundamental issue of
consistent, machine-readable description of units in data is also addressed.

The article provides an overview of current activities globally, the role
of DRUM and the Digital SI Expert Group. It includes a Call for Action ‘to
create interoperable data with machine-readable quantities and units of
measurement’ and invites colleagues to contact the Task Group to get
involved.

Hanisch et al., ‘Stop squandering data: make units of measurement
machine-readable’, *Nature* *605*, 222-224 (2022):
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01233-w

Coming up at SciDataCon (part of International Data Week
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<https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/drum/units-summit-recap-meeting/>
which
features three sessions on DRUM
<https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW-2022/sessions/426/>, on current units
infrastructures <https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW-2022/sessions/449/> and on
the BIPM activities for interoperable metrology and the Digital SI
<https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW-2022/sessions/457/>.  Come along, find out
more and get involved!


Thanks,

Asha

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