<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Date: 7.12. 2018 from 14.00-16.00</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit">URL: </span><strong style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:top"><a href="https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/177773245" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/177773245</a></strong></p><div class="gmail-WordSection1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><h3 style="margin:8px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:22px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:32px;color:rgb(59,102,60)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top">Speakers</strong></h3><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;list-style:none"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Larry Lannom (Vice President CNRI, Virginia): What is it?</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Dimitris Koureas (Head DISSCO<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top"> Coordination Team): Why to do it?</span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 19px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;background-image:url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:0% 7px;line-height:26px">Christophe Bianchi (Executive Director DONA Foundation): How to do it?</li></ul><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Between key actors who worked on the concept of Digital Objects within the Research Data Alliance, the Swiss DONA Foundation and on implementing the FAIR principles in the GOFAIR initiative there is agreement about the fact that Digital Objects [1] and the FAIR Principles [2] are steps towards convergence in the digital data domain and are complementary [3,4]. The concept of Digital Objects with its capacities of abstraction, of binding all relevant information together such that machines can find it and its potential for encapsulation [5] is a way to implement the basic FAIR recommendations and to facilitate the others. This has also been indicated in the recent report of EC's FAIR implementation expert group [6] and in a recent workshop in Brussels [7].</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><img src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/rda_webinar27102018.png" alt="" width="300" height="157" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; float: right;">Assuming that the FAIR Principles are now widely known, in this webinar we want to present the concept of Digital Objects (DO), discuss it from a computer science and domain science perspective and present the DO Interface Protocol (DOIP) [8] which has the potential to establish interoperability between repositories of digital data independent of the way they are organising their data and which data model they are using. As surveys have shown these differences account for a large percentage of the inefficiencies and costs in data projects in research and industry. As is indicated in the diagram, the DOIP takes over a similar role as TCP/IP some decades ago and it has the potential to open a new phase of improved exploitation of the rich data collections we are gathering. DOIP will be free to use and free of charge to everyone, and it will create an interoperable data square which will not be owned by anyone as Internet is not owned by a particular institution or company - the infrastructure is simply there to be used. </p><h3 align="center" style="margin:8px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:22px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:32px;color:rgb(59,102,60)">Agenda</h3><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">14.00 Welcome & Introduction</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">14.05 Larry Lannom: Digital Objects - Concept and Impact</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">14.25 Dimitris Koureas: Digital Objects - their potential for Data Science</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">14.45 Christophe Bianchi: DOIP V2.0 - Basic Specification Aspects</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">15.05 Open Discussion (Moderator: Peter Wittenburg)</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">This webinar will be recorded and available through the GEDE (Group of European Data Experts) web-site and it will be repeated in January 2019 to allow many to participate and ask questions.</p></div><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">More information about GEDE, the GEDE Digital Object Group and other GEDE activities can be found here: <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/gede-group-european-data-experts-rda" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/gede-group-european-data-experts-rda</a></span></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">References to useful reading material:</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">[1] RDA DFT Core Terms and Model: <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11304/5d760a3e-991d-11e5-9bb4-2b0aad496318" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">http://hdl.handle.net/11304/5d760a3e-991d-11e5-9bb4-</a></span><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11304/5d760a3e-991d-11e5-9bb4-2b0aad496318" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)"> 2b0aad496318</a></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">[2] FAIR Principles: <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples</a></span></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">[3] P. Wittenburg & G. Strawn: Common Patterns in Revolutionary Infrastructures and Data; <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="http://doi.org/10.23728/b2share.4e8ac36c0dd343da81fd9e83e72805a0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">http://doi.org/10.23728/b2share.4e8ac36c0dd343da81fd9e83e72805a0</a></span></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">[4] E. Schultes & P. Wittenburg: FAIR Principles & Digital Objects: a Complementary Couple?!; to appear soon</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">[5] P. Wittenburg, G. Strawn, E. Schultes, B. Mons: Digital Objects as Drivers towards Convergence in Data; to appear soon</p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">[6] EC FAIR Implementation Report: <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://d2cloud.zbw.eu/f/278e29d739/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">https://d2cloud.zbw.eu/f/278e29d739/</a></span> [7] GEDE workshop on Digital Objects: <a href="http://doi.org/10.23728/b2share.0347cfc5bddb4124a4abadbcf180bef5" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)"> http://doi.org/10.23728/b2share.0347cfc5bddb4124a4abadbcf180bef5</a></p><p style="margin:6px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:"Droid Sans",sans-serif;vertical-align:top;line-height:24px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">[8] DOIPV2.0 Specification: <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:underline"><a href="https://www.dona.net/sites/default/files/2018-11/DOIPv2Spec_1.pdf" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(59,102,60)">https://www.dona.net/sites/default/files/2018-11/DOIPv2Spec_1.pdf</a></span></p><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)">___________________________</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>