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C O D A T A
Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in/for/with Developing Countries (PASTD)
(formerly
Preservation and Archiving of Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries;
name change approved by the CODATA Officers in May 2005)
name change approved by the CODATA Officers in May 2005)
Approved by the CODATA 23rd General Assembly in Montréal 2002
Renewal
approved by the CODATA General Assembly, Berlin 2004
Renewal approved by the CODATA 25th General Assembly, Beijing 2006
Renewal approved by the CODATA 26th General Assembly, Kyiv 2008
Renewal approved by the CODATA 27th General Assembly, Cape Town 2010
Renewal approved by the CODATA 28th General Assembly, Taipei 2012
Membership
Co-Chairs:
- Prof. Xingfa Gu
Director of Institute of Remote Sensing Applications,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Add. No.3 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101
CHINA
Tel.:+86 10-6485 5711 - Fax: +86 10-6488 9570
Emal: guxingfa@irsa.ac.cn - Prof. Mabel Imbuga
Vice Chancellor,Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
P.O. Box 62000, City Square, Nairobi, 00200
KENYA
Tel.: 254-067-52711- Fax: 254-67-52164
Emai: vc@jkuat.ac.ke
Horst Kremers
Chair, CODATA-Germany
P.O. Box: 20 05 48
13515 Berlin
GERMANY
Email: office@horst-kremers.de
- Prof. Chuang Liu
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research
Chinese Academy of Sciences
No.11A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101
CHINA
Tel: 86-10-6488 9805 - Fax: 86-10-6485 0917
Email: lchuang@igsnrr.ac.cn
Sub-group 1: Policy and Capacity Building Sub-group (PCBS)
Chair
- Dr. Raed M. Sharif
Adjunct Professor, the Information School at Syracuse University.
Independent Consultant in Open Data & Knowledge for Social Change, Innovation, and Development, Toronto
CANADA
Tel.: +1-647-567-2212
Email: raedsharif@gmail.com
Members:
- Dr. Mika Odido
IOC Sub Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States
UNESCO Multi-Sectoral Office in Nairobi
UN Gigiri Complex Bloick C
P.O. Box 30592-00100，
Nairobi, Kenya
Tel: +254 20 7621244
Email: m.odido@unesco.org
- Dr. Jianhui Li
Director of Scientific Data Centre
Computer Network Information Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Secretary General, China National Committee for CODATA
4 Zhongguancun Nansijie, Haidian District, Beijing 100190 - P.O. Box 349
CHINA
Phone: 86-10-58812541
Fax: +86-10-58812268
Email: lijh@cnic.cn - Dr. Vanderlei Perez Canhos
Director, Reference Center on Environmental Information
Avenida Romeu Tórtima 388, Cidade Universitária, 13084-520 Campinas, SP, CRIA
BRAZIL
Tel: 55(19) 32880466
Fax: 55 (19) 32490960
Email: vcanhos@cria.org.br - Prof. Robert John Lancashire
Computational Chemistry， Department of Chemistry
The University of the West Indies
Mona, Kingston 7
JAMAICA, West Indies
Tel: (876) 927-1910
Fax: (876) 977-1835
Email: Robert.lancashire@uwimona.edu.jm - Dr. Vishwas Chavan
Information Division
National Chemical Laboratory
Dr. Homi Bhabha Road
Pune 411008 INDIA
Tel: +91 20 2590 2484
Email: chavan.vishwas@gmail.com - Dr. David L Giaretta
Director, Alliance for Permanent Access
Add.: 2 High Street, Yetminster, Dorset, DT9 6LF
UK
Tel: +44 1935 872660
Mob: +44 7770 326 304
Email: director@alliancepermanentaccess.org - Dr. Alexander M. Sterin
All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information
6 Korolev Str , Obninsk, Kaluga Reg., 249035
RUSSIA
Tel: +7 95 2552467, or +7 84 3974658
Email: sterin@meteo.ru - Prof. Sayed M. Arafat
Head of Agricultural Applications, Soils & Marine Dept. National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences
Vice President of African Association of Remote Sensing and Environment (for North Africa)
Add.: 23, Josef Tito St. Alnozha El-Gedida, Cairo,
EGYPT
P.O. Box: 1564 Alf-Maskan
Tel: +202-26251220
Fax: +202-26225800
Email: drsayed.arafat@gmail.com - Prof. Yoshifumi Yasuoka
University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science,
Add.: 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8505
JAPAN
Tel: +81 3 54526409 (or 6411)
Email: yyasuoka@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp - Dr. Charat Mongkolsawat
President, Remote Sensing and GIS Association of Thailand
Computer Center Building, Khon Kaen University
Khon Kaen, 400002
THAILAND
Tel: 66-43-348268
Fax: 66-43-348267
Email: charat@kku.ac.th - Dr. Dato’ Dr Darus Ahmad
Director General, Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency (ARSM)
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI)
No.13, Jalan Tun Ismail, 50480 KUALA LUMPUR
MALAYSIA
Tel : 603-2697 3400
Email: darus@remotesensing.gov.my - One member from Mongolia will be added
Sub-group 2: Show Cases and Best Practices System Sub-group (SCBS)
Chair:- Dr. Xiang Zhou
Director of Department of Science and Technology, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Add. No.3 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101
CHINA
Tel.:+86 10-64846825
Fax: +86 10-64864643
Emil: zhouxiang@irsa.ac.cn
Members:
- Dr. Zheping Xu
Assistant to Director of Documentation and Information Centre
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Add.: No.20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing
CHINA
Tel: 86-10-62836847
Fax: 86-10-82593448
Email: xuzp@ibcas.ac.cn - Dr. Yefremov Kostiantyn
Director of the WDC-Ukraine
Member of Executive Board, CODATA National Committee, National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
Add.: 37, Peremohy ave., Building No.6, NTUU “KPI”, Kyiv, 03056
UKRAINE
Tel.: (+380 44) 406 8014
Fax: (+380 44) 406 8153 E-mail: k.yefremov@wdc.org.ua - Dr. John Faundeen
Archivist, U.S. Geological Survey
Earth Resources Observation and Science Centre
Add.: 47914-252nd Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57198
USA
Tel: 605-594-6092
Fax: 707-222-0223
Email: faundeen@usgs.gov - Mr. Wim Hugo
Chief Data and Information Officer, Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), ICSU WDS Scientific Committee, National Research Foundation
SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: +27 21 880 0885
Email: wim@saeon.ac.za - Dr. Tomoko Doko
Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and
Part-time lecturer at Keio University
Add.: Yokohama National University, 79-7 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama city, Kanagawa Prefecture, 240-8501
JAPAN
Tel: +81-45-339-4356
E-mail: dokochan@ynu.ac.jp - Dr. Milton Kampel
Head of Remote Sensing Division
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
Add.: Chefe da Divisão de Sensoriamento Remoto
Av. dos Astronautas, 1758
Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo BRASIL
Tel: 55-12-3208 6447
Fax: 55-12-3208 6488
Email: milton@dsr.inpe.br - Dr. Ana Cristina Amoroso das Neves vcard
Director, Department of Information Society, Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education
Taguspark, Av. Prof. Dr. Cavaco Silva, Edifficio Qualidade, Bloco G2-3A, 2740-120, Porto Salvo
PORTUGAL
Tel: +351 213 911 555
Fax: +351 213 956 519
Email: ana.neves@fct.pt
Consultants:
- Paul F. Uhlir, J.D.
Director of the Board on Research Data and Information at the U.S. National Academies
Policy and Global Affairs Division
The National Academies
Add: Room 511, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
USA
Tel: +1 (202) 334-1531
Fax: +1 (202) 334-2231
Email: puhlir@nas.edu - Prof. Jinnian Wang
Deputy Director of Institute of Remote Sensing Applications,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Add. No.3 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101
CHINA
Tel: 86-10-64859301
Fax: 86-10-64889570
Emal: jwang@irsa.ac.cn - Dr. Daisy Selematsela
Executive Director, Knowledge Management & Evaluation
National Research Foundation
Add. Meiring Naude Road, Brummeria
P.O. Box 2600, Pretoria, 0001
SOUTH AFRICA
Tel: +27 (0) 12 481 4158
Fax: +27 (0) 12 481 4006
Email: daisys@nrf.ac.za
Objectives
- Promote a deeper understanding of the needs of developing countries with regard to long-term preservation, archiving, and permanent access to scientific and technical (S&T) data.
- Advance the development and adoption of improved S&T data archiving procedures, technologies, standards, and policies, with special attention to these efforts in developing countries.
- Provide an interdisciplinary forum and mechanisms for exchanging information about S&T data archiving requirements and activities, with particular focus on the concerns and needs of developing countries. Publish and disseminate broadly the results of these efforts
Recent Activities
- CODATA2006: Beijing, CHINA
The Task Group organized a keynote session on archiving at the 20TH CODATA Conference in Beijing, China. More than 70 participates attended the session. Task Group members presented at several conference paper sessions. LIU Chuang, Task Group Co-chair hosted a dinner for the Task Group attendees. - Co-Lead Organization (team) of the UN GAID e-SDDC Project
As one of the important action of WSIS, UN launched the GAID (Global Alliance for ICT and Development) in 2006. The TG worked with Chinese Academy of Sciences, Internet Society of China, Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST), Center of Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, USA, National Research Foundation of South African (NRF) and National Environmental Reference Center, Brazil to launched the UN GAID e-SDDC (Global Alliance for Enhancing Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries), which was approved by UN in 2007. Several members of the Preservation Task Group are participating in a developing United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN-GAID) program: Global Alliance for Enhancing Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries (e-SDDC). This program is co-chaired by Liu Chuang and Paul Uhlir, and its objectives complement and build on the work of the Preservation Task Group. - The Task Group, in concert with other organizations, sponsored workshops in Latin American, African and Asia
- Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development
This workshop, held in Atibaia, SP, Brazil, from 8-10 May 2007, was another in the series of regional events that the Task Group has been sponsoring since it's inception in 2001. Together with the USNC, the Brazilian NC, and CRIA (Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental), this workshop brought together approximately 100 researchers and experts on open and permanent access to S&T data and information from Latin America, the USA, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. The workshop was structured to (1) review and discuss the high-priority issues relating to enabling open and long-term access to data and information and (2) produce concrete, short-term actions that can be taken to address these issues. A comprehensive report on the conference will be available in the first quarter of 2008. The conference program and presentations are available here: http://www.cria.org.br/eventos/codata2007/agenda. -
Data Sources for Sustainable Development in SADC Countries
The CODATA Task Group on Data Sources for Sustainable Development in SADC Countries held its initial organizing workshop in collaboration with the ICSU Regional Office for Africa (ROA), the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, the CODATA Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries, the South African National Committee for CODATA, and the United States National Committee for CODATA. This meeting was held in South Africa at the National Research Foundation on 14-15 May 2007.
The final report can be found here: http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/COdata/CodataSouthAfrica.html
The Task Group on Data Sources and this meeting are a direct outcome of the Preservation Task Group workshop that was held in South Africa in 2005. - Co-organizer for the International Workshop on UN GAID e-SDDC – A Decentralized Network of Networks on Open Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries, December 4-5, 2007, Beijing China
As the co-lead organization of the UN GAID e-SDDC, the TG co-organized the Beijing workshop focused on building a decentralized network of networks in China as well as Asia. More than 70 participants attended the workshop. An implementation plan for building an Open Knowledge Environment (OKE) from the joint action between UN GAID e-SDDC Action Line 5 (Showcase Application) and CODATA TG action in 2008 and IAP (Inter Academy Panel) project related was discussed. More than 10 countries and more than 40 organizations in Asia will participate in this joint action in 2008.
Outreach
TG Co-chair William Anderson attended the Open Repository 2007 Conference in San Antonio, Texas. A written report can be retrieved here:
http://praxis101.com/docs/OR2007-ConferenceReport.rtf
TG Co-chair LIU Chuang attended the 2nd Strategy Council Meeting of UN GAID from 27-28 February California, USA, the UN GAID e-SDDC Implementation Plan for 2007 was presented at the meeting.
More information at http://www.un-gaid.org/en/node/237
TG Co-chair LIU Chuang attended the 10th Conference of Science and Technology for Development of UN from 21-25 May 2007, Geneva. Liu Chuang was invited to be the Panel of UN GAID Session of the Conference and provide a speech on what we may do for developing countries from the aspect of scientific data, information and capacity building.
TG Co-chair LIU Chuang attended the WGISS/CEOS meeting from 15-19 October, Munich, Germany, as the WGISS-CODATA Liaison person and user vice chair of WGISS, LIU Chuang provide two reports, one is the user vice chair report and one is the CODATA liaison report.
TG Co-chair LIU Chuang attended the 2nd IGF (Internet Government Forum) from 12-15 November in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Liu Chuang was invited to present to the panel session on Multi-culture and Internet Norm.
TGCo-chair LIU Chuang attended the International Workshop on 2007’s Natural Disaster and Emergency Management from 22-24 September, 2007, Beijing, China, which was co-sponsored by the International Society of Emergency Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Inter Academy Panel. Liu Chuang provided a presentation on the strategy of the decentralized network of networks of scientific data in developing countries.
Final report and executive summary of the Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development workshop, that was held in Atibaia, SP, Brazil, from 8-10 May 2007 will be published and made available 1st quarter 2008.
Report on building a decentralized network of networks of open access to and application of scientific data in developing countries, will be published in English and in Chinese. The report is jointly published by the UN GAID e-SDDC team, and will be available online at the Task Group web site and as a hard copy publication.
An initial planning committee meeting for a 2009 Kyiv regional workshop will be held in concert with the CODATA 2008 International Conference.
In addition, the Task Group will organize sessions at CODATA 2008 specifically focusing on archiving and long-term preservation and access to S&T data.
The Task Group, through its members, will continue to work with the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN-GAID) program: Global Alliance for Enhancing Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries (e-SDDC).
The Task Group will continue to facilitate and participate in the ongoing discussions regarding the issues, challenges, and progress in archiving, preservation, and long-term access to scientific and technical data in developing countries. To date the Task Group has raised the visibility of CODATA in other, related professional and NGO activities in two ways. The CODATA workshops have brought new researchers in contact with CODATA. And TG members do represent CODATA in their other activities.
Plans are underway to hold another in the series of regional workshops on preservation and access in the Kyiv region in 2009.
The Task Group, through its members, will seek to collaborate with other international activities that focus on issues of archiving and preservation of digital resources. Potential activities and organizations include the (1) World Bank archiving group and their learning program on records management; (2) WIPO’s efforts to facilitate intellectual property capacity building and database preservation, and innovation in developing countries. There’s an opportunity to re-connect with the International Council on Archives.
As the volume and use of data collected worldwide continues to grow exponentially, the effective long-term preservation of and access to these information resources likewise increases in importance. The preservation, management, and archiving of digital S&T data in many cases poses greater, and significantly different, challenges than those in print formats. These challenges are not only technical, but involve new scientific, financial, organizational, management, legal, and policy considerations. Moreover, although many of the challenges that require sustainable solutions are the same for digital data across all disciplines, others are distinct or unique for certain disciplines or data types. Developing countries, in particular, face the greatest hurdles, yet there are very few international and interdisciplinary activities addressing S&T data issues and problems in the developing world context. Resolving the many different problems in the preservation and archiving of scientific data successfully today will bear dividends for many generations to come; the costs of failure would be incalculable, but profound.
The Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries has provided a much-needed focus on the data preservation and archiving practices of developing countries. The Task Group is fully consistent with the international and interdisciplinary goals of CODATA, and directly promotes many of the specific organizational objectives of CODATA as set forth in its Constitution and Statement of Mission. The Task Group also helps fulfil some of the important objectives of ICSU and many of its constituent unions, interdisciplinary ICSU bodies, and affiliated organizations such as the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI). The Task Group members are cognizant of many of the other international efforts in digital archiving that are already underway outside the immediate ICSU organization, particularly in the professional records management, archiving, and library communities, and have and will continue to collaborate and coordinate with those other activities in order to avoid unnecessary redundancies and to maximize the effectiveness of the Task Group’s work.
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