<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-MsoSubtitle" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:rgb(79,129,189);letter-spacing:0.75pt;font-style:italic"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/18403" style="color:blue">Schloss Dagstuhl</a></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%"> – Leibniz Center for Informatics, 1
– 5 October 2018, Wadern, Germany</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">A <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DDI4/pages/433553433/Interoperability+of+Metadata+Standards+in+Cross-Domain+Science+Health+and+Social+Science+Applications" style="color:blue">workshop
on the practical application of computer science to enable data sharing and
data interoperability across disciplinary boundaries</a></span> was hosted at
the internationally renowned computer science institute at Schloss Dagstuhl in
Germany. The event was sponsored by CODATA (the <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="color:blue">Committee on Data</a></span> of the <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://council.science/" style="color:blue">International Science
Council</a></span>), and the Data Documentation Initiative Alliance (<span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://www.ddialliance.org/community/events-at-schloss-dagstuhl-%E2%80%93-leibniz-center-for-informatics" style="color:blue">DDI</a></span>),
and subsidized by Dagstuhl; it was organized by <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://people.csiro.au/C/S/simon-cox" style="color:blue">Simon Cox</a></span> (CSIRO
Australia and W3C Dataset Exchange Working Group), <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://www.codata.org/about-codata/secretariat" style="color:blue">Simon Hodson</a></span>
(CODATA), <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://csrm.cass.anu.edu.au/people/dr-steven-mceachern" style="color:blue">Steven McEachern</a></span>
(Australian National University and DDI Alliance), <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.gesis.org/en/institute/staff/person/?tx_gextstaffdir_staffdirectory%5Bemail%5D=joachim.wackerow%40gesis.org&tx_gextstaffdir_staffdirectory%5Baction%5D=details&tx_gextstaffdir_staffdirectory%5Bcontroller%5D=Index&cHash=6dc2d6ac40bf0ecaeaeb2cfa96b7e321" style="color:blue">Joachim
Wackerow</a></span> (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and DDI
Alliance). The workshop brought together 24 participants from many different
domains. These included representatives of a number of metadata specifications,
as well as researchers involved in pilot projects currently being pursued as
part of the ISC and CODATA <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://dataintegration.codata.org/" style="color:blue">Data Integration Initiative</a></span>.
A duration of 5 days, and the relative isolation and unique dynamics of
Dagstuhl, encourages intense involvement on the part of all participants (as
described on the DDI site <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://www.ddialliance.org/community/events-at-schloss-dagstuhl-%E2%80%93-leibniz-center-for-informatics" style="color:blue">here</a></span>).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The workshop examined how modern web-friendly computer
science techniques and standards could better enable data-sharing in the
context of the <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://dataintegration.codata.org/" style="color:blue">Data Integration Initiative</a></span>
pilots. These are major cross-disciplinary data integration projects to advance
solutions for three important global challenges: infectious disease outbreaks,
resilient cities, and disaster risk reduction. The infectious disease pilot
builds on work by the <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.iddo.org/" style="color:blue">Infectious
Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO)</a></span> to support both research and
humanitarian efforts, with Ebola used as the primary example for discussion.
The resilient cities pilot focuses on the work in Medellín, Columbia, in
partnership with <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://resiliencebrokers.org/" style="color:blue">Resilience Brokers</a></span>.  Examples involved air quality measurement,
location of hospitals, and geo-spatial data. The disaster risk reduction pilot,
led by Public Health England in partnership with the <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://www.irdrinternational.org/" style="color:blue">Integrated Research on Disaster Risk</a></span>
is looking at how data could support the Sendai Framework, especially in cases
where the SDG indicators would not be sufficient. Different approaches for
obtaining data both from within and from outside the realm of official
statistics were explored, with an emphasis on research data.  In each case, data integration presented
significant challenges.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Metadata standards are a part of the computer science
landscape which can facilitate the discovery of existing datasets, and their
integration and use within a particular scenario. Representatives of many of
these standards were present, helping to understand the data integration
challenges faced by each of the projects. These standards included many of the
W3C Linked Data vocabularies (DCAT, SSN, Data Cube, PROV-O, etc.), DDI, HL7 FHIR,
CDISC, DATS, ISO 19115, EML and several others.<a style="color:blue" href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="gmail-MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span class="gmail-MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%">[i]</span></span></span></a>
Some of these standards are focused on the data within a particular discipline
or domain. Others are more general in scope. The workshop examined the
relationships between these standards in the context of their real-world
application (the pilot projects). This required an understanding of the
granularity of the metadata being expressed by each standard (at the level of a
study or dataset, at the variable and observation level, etc.)</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Much of the activity in the workshop was in small working
groups composed of both business experts involved in the pilot projects, and
experts in the relevant technology and domain standards. Some additional
technical topics which arose during the exploration of the pilot projects were
also addressed separately by small teams of the appropriate experts.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The workshop was extremely productive, with immediately
producing outlines of working papers relating to each of the pilot projects. An
article will also be produced describing the overall goals of the effort and
the relationship of various standards and technology approaches to the cross-disciplinary
data integration projects. The intention is that these will be published in
peer-reviewed journals appropriate to their content. In addition, it is
anticipated one specific technical output was initiated - for example, a DCAT profile
to support granular description of data in online catalogues. The outputs of
the workshop will be presented at the upcoming <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW2018/sessions/232/" style="color:blue">SciDataCon</a></span> conference
(at the 2^nd <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://www.internationaldataweek.org/" style="color:blue">International Data Week</a></span>
organized by CODATA together with the Research Data Alliance and the World Data
System) in Gaborone, Botswana in early November of 2018. Further collaborative
work between CODATA, the DDI Alliance, and other interested organizations is
anticipated in the future, including more intense, focused workshops of this
kind.<a style="color:blue" href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="gmail-MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span class="gmail-MsoEndnoteReference" style="vertical-align:super"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%">[ii]</span></span></span></a></p>

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A list of <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DDI4/pages/462127105/Workshop+Description#WorkshopDescription-references" style="color:blue">metadata
specifications for the workshop</a></span> is available at the workshop site.</p>

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A list of recent <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DDI4/pages/590118913/Workshops+on+Related+Topics+CODATA+and+DDI" style="color:blue">CODATA
and DDI Workshops</a></span> on relevant topics is available at the workshop
site.</p>

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</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">___________________________<br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b style="font-size:small">Registration is now open for International Data Week<span> </span></b><span style="font-size:small">(comprising SciDataCon and the 12th RDA Plenary Meeting), 5-8 November 2018, Gaborone, Botswana:</span><b style="font-size:small"> <a href="http://internationaldataweek.org/registration" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">register here!</a> <span> </span></b><span style="font-size:small">Early bird rate until 30 September.</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><a href="http://www.codata.org/events/general-assembly/general-assembly-2018/codata-elections-2018" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><b>Provisional List of Candidates for CODATA Elections Announced.</b></a><b> <span> </span>CODATA General Assembly, 9-10 November 2018, University of Botswana.</b></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><b>Applications are now open for the <a href="http://www.codata.org/working-groups/research-data-science-summer-schools/sao-paulo-2018" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, Sao Paulo,</a> ICTP-SAIFR, 3-14 December 2018: <a href="http://ictp-saifr.org/sis/datasci2018step0.php" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">deadline for applications, 30 September</a>.</b></div></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">___________________________</div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Asha Law | Program Assistant, CODATA | <a href="http://www.codata.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.codata.org</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">E-Mail: <a href="mailto:asha@codata.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">asha@codata.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Tel (Office): +33 1 45 25 04 96</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Council for Science), 5 rue Auguste Vacquerie, 75016 Paris, FRANCE</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>