[CODATA-international] FAIR Vocabularies in Population Research

[Asha CODATA]

Monday 12 June, 12:00-13:30 UTC

Register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvcu6hpzouGtTdnZLq2zMtDSuw4d24cihS

This event will launch the report ‘FAIR Vocabularies in Population
Research’ https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7818157 produced by the joint
IUSSP-CODATA WG with the same name.  The speakers will present the report
and its implications and discuss the next steps for implementing its
recommendations.

IUSSP and CODATA co-sponsored a working group to study how population
research can benefit from the rapidly developing standards and technologies
associated with the FAIR principles that all data should be “Findable,
Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable” by both humans and
machines (Wilkinson et al., 2016).

Demography is an empirically focused field with a long tradition of widely
shared, easily accessible, data collections.  FAIR vocabularies, which
allow machines to associate data with concepts, can save researchers hours
of tedious work by automating processes of data discovery and
harmonization.  The report introduces readers to international standards
for documenting data (metadata) that underlie international infrastructures
for producing and disseminating demographic data, and it recommends
enhancing these services through application of the FAIR principles.  The
report builds on the “Ten Simple Rules for making a vocabulary FAIR”  (Cox
et al., 2021), prepared by a group formed at a workshop convened by CODATA
and DDI to describe how a FAIR vocabulary will work with international
standards for documenting and sharing social science data.

The working group calls for IUSSP to create a FAIR Vocabulary of
Demography.  Online vocabularies including demographic terms already exist,
and most of them define key terms in ways incompatible with
demography.  Population research will be at a disadvantage without an
authoritative FAIR vocabulary of its own.  Fortunately, a new FAIR
Vocabulary of Demography can build upon IUSSP’s long history of support for
dictionaries of demography in multiple languages.

*Speakers*:

   - George Alter, University of Michigan
   - Abdulla Gozalov, United Nations Statistics Division
   - Steven McEachern, Australian Data Archive, Autralian National
   University

Thanks,
Asha
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