<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><i>The DRUM Task Group invites all ISU/ISA ‘Ambassadors’ to the DRUM initiative to attend an Interoperable Units of Measure, Open Discussion Session at the International FAIR Convergence Symposium.  Details of the session and FREE registration are below.</i>  <br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Date and Time: Thu Dec. 3, 2020, at 11:00-13:00 UTC</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Register FREE to attend the FAIR Convergence Symposium at <a href="https://bit.ly/FAIRCONVERGE1" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/FAIRCONVERGE1</a> using the code FAIRCONVERGE1 and choose this session (and others!)</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Session Description: </span><a href="https://conference.codata.org/FAIRconvergence2020/sessions/262/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://conference.codata.org/FAIRconvergence2020/sessions/262/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The current state of the digital representation of units of measure (DRUM) across domains is a significant problem relative to the interoperability of data and it needs to be addressed immediately.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Across the scientific disciplines there is a wide variety of knowledge about, focus on, and care with the recording of a unit of measure with each piece of experimental, calculated, modeled or derived data. Much information is available for annotation of units for humans, however there is no authoritative source for how to represent and store units of measures (in any units’ system) in digital systems.  This is a fundamental problem for data science currently and a major problem for the future integration of large, heterogeneous datasets both within and across disciplines.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There are a number of important activities underway, including the major work of the </span><a href="https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cc/wg/cipm-tgdsi.html" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Digital SI</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, as well as the </span><a href="https://ucum.org/trac" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">UCUM</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> service and the </span><a href="http://www.qudt.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">QUDT</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> ontologies.  Many domains have their own longstanding recommendations and references.  The </span><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/drum/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Digital Representation of Units of Measure Task Group</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> aims to raise the profile of this fundamental issue and to encourage and facilitate cooperation between various initiatives.  </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This session will feature informative presentations from the DRUM Task Group on the current landscape of units of measure and then an open discussion of issues relating to the interoperability of units of measure.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Questions for discussion may include:</span></div><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">What is the most novel unit you have come across?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Do you use unit systems other than the SI?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">What issues with representation or conversion of units do you regularly encounter?</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Do you have an example where a failure to properly represent or convert units of measure led to serious problems?

</span></div></li></ul><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Is there an equivalent international document to the IUPAC Green Book or the Astronomy IVOA units document? Are there any comparable national documents that are relevant?</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Has your community developed tools or infrastructure to support interoperability amongst different representations of units of measure?  If so, how were these tools developed and how are they sustained?</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Participants may be interested in the statement of mission </span><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/drum/units-of-measure-for-humans-and-machines/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">‘Units of Measure for Humans and Machines’</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and the </span><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/drum/first-briefing-for-the-drum-ambassadors/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">documents and recording of a briefing session on DRUM</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> originally given for representatives from the International Scientific Unions and Associations.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Documents</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/DRUM-One-Page-Summary.pdf" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">One page briefing note</span></a></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/DRUM-Ambassadors-Possible-FAQs.pdf" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">One page FAQ document</span></a></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/WorldOfUnits2.pptx" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The World of Units Diagram (Presentation, Bob Hanisch)</span></a></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://codata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CODATA-Amb.-Digital-SI-02.pptx" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">The CIPM Task Group on the Digital SI (Presentation, Stuart Chalk)</a></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Thanks,</div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Asha</div><div><br></div>-- </div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>___________________________<br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>International (Virtual) FAIR Convergence Symposium, 27 Nov, 30 Nov-4 D</b><b>ec: <a href="https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/c407330f-1b56-49c8-88c4-f51bd7844811/summary" target="_blank">FREE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN</a> (code FAIRCONVERGE1)</b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b></div><div><b>Using DDI-CDI to Describe Data Processing and Provenance: </b><a href="https://codata.org/initiatives/strategic-programme/decadal-programme/ddi-cross-domain-integration-review-webinar-series/using-ddi-cdi-to-describe-data-processing-and-provenance/" target="_blank">register for webinar 9 Dec 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