ICSU World Data System- trusted data services

for global science

Michael Diepenbroek, Vice-Chair WDS-SC

History

• International Geophysical Year 1957–58

ICSU WDCs FAGS

ENIAC, 1944

Technical development

Magnetometer

Data Intensive Science

WDS creation

• ICSU 29th General AssemblyMaputo (October 28, 2008)

• Decision: to establish a new ICSU-World Data System as an Interdisciplinary Body to replace the WDC and FAGS.

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ICSU World Data System

‘ICSU’s long-term vision is of a world where excellence in science is effectively translated into policy making and socio-economic development. In such a world, universal and equitable access to scientific data and information is a reality …’

SERVICE PLATFORMSdata discovery, analysis & visualisation services, data submission & publication,

help desks

RESEARCHERS, RESEARCH GROUPS, SCIENCE PROJECTS

BASIC SERVICES

COMMUNITYSERVICES

USERS

DATA ARCHIVES & COMPUTE SERVICES

ASSISTING SERVICES

registries, ontologies, cross-linking

INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS, PROGRAMS,

& ORGANISATIONS

Architecture

WDS Implementation

• Constitution (2010)• Data policy (under revision)• International Programme Office (2010)• Certification criteria

& Membership Applications (2011)• Working Groups (2012)• First strategic Plan (2013)

Strategic Targets

1. Make trusted data services an integral part of international collaborative scientific research

2. Nurture active disciplinary and multidisciplinary scientific data services communities

3. Improve the funding environment

4. Improve the trust in and quality of open Scientific Data Services

5. Position WDS as the premium global multidisciplinary network for quality-assessed scientific research data

Strategic Target 1

• Make trusted data services an integral part of international collaborative scientific research

Support Future Earth

• Identify data challenges and opportunities• Define data policy and management principles• Expand WDS membership in Social Sciences:

– Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research– DataFirst – The Language Archive

• SciDataCon 2014: four conference tracks– bridge cross-cutting data themes and research themes of

Future Earth

Strategic Target 2

• Nurture active disciplinary and multidisciplinary scientific data services communities

Strategic Target 3

• Improve the funding environment for data services

• WDS is contributing to the Belmont Forum E-Infrastructures and Data Management Collaborative Research Action

• Goal: data management as an integral part of research funding– Funding provisions for national calls– Monitoring of applied & current research projects

Strategic Target 4

• Improve the trust in, and quality of, open scientific data services

WDS Certification• Evaluation criteria based on a

compilation of international standards and best practices:– General requirements &

policies– Organizational framework– Management of data,

products and services– Technical infrastructure

• Reviewers board - certification agency (CA)

Publishing Data

• New concept to improve availability & quality of data• Goal: data as an integral part of scholarly publishing

100+ participants at the RDA–WDS Publishing Data Interest Group sessions in Dublin & Amsterdam

DOC

PDF

CSV

NetCDF

TXT

XML

XLSX

XLS

GRIB

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OECD principles and guidelines for access to research data (2007)

• Citability• Licenses & persistent identification• Quality

QA/QC -> review procedures

• Efficiency (Meta)data & interoperability standards

(mashine readable)

• FITNESS OF USE!

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Publishing data - prerequisites

Publishing data - the Long TailFi

tness

for

use

Total volume of scientific data

Managed & published dataLarge scale monitoring, computed data,

and disciplinary data centers

Unmanaged & non-published Data from individual scientists, labs, or

smaller projects

Somewhat managed & open access data

Fitn

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for

use

Total volume of scientific data

WDS/RDA Working Groups- bridging domains

• Publishing workflows• Publishing Services• Bibliometrics for data• Cost recovery models• Trusted repositories &

servicese-Infrastructures

Scientific research projects

Collaboration between data centers & science journals

linking editorial workflows linking services

Consortium

• Research facilities• Data repositories• Universities• Libraries• Industry

Strategic Target 5

• Position ICSU-WDS as the premium global multidisciplinary network for quality assessed data

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Members• Regular (59)

– Typically large, well establised data centers with global scope

• Network (10)– Data stewardship organisations & data

analysis services (IGNSS, IVOA, IODE)• Partner (4)

– Supportive members (IUGG, DataCite, ESIP)

• Associated (18)– Participating in the discussion

(ICSTI, RDA, Codata, STM, Elsevier)

ICSU-WDS – a system of systems

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