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
Technical development
ENIAC, 1944
Magnetometer
Data Intensive Science
WDS creation
• ICSU 29th General Assembly
Maputo (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 socioeconomic development. In such
a world, universal and equitable
access to scientific data and
information is a reality …’
Architecture
USERS
RESEARCHERS, RESEARCH GROUPS, SCIENCE PROJECTS
INTERNATIONAL
NETWORKS, PROGRAMS,
& ORGANISATIONS
ASSISTING SERVICES
registries, ontologies, crosslinking
SERVICE PLATFORMS
data discovery, analysis &
visualisation services, data
submission & publication,
help desks
COMMUNITY
SERVICES
BASIC
SERVICES
DATA ARCHIVES &
COMPUTE SERVICES
WDS Implementation
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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 qualityassessed 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
Publishing data - prerequisites
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!
XLSX
Data
Set
TXT
Data
Set
DOC
Data
Set
XML
Data
Set
PDF
Data
Set
NetCDF
Data
Set
CSV
Data
Set
GRIB
Data
Set
XLS
Data
Set
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Publishing data - the Long Tail
Managed & published data
Fitness for use
Large scale monitoring, computed data,
and disciplinary data centers
Somewhat managed & open access data
Unmanaged & non-published
Data from individual scientists, labs, or smaller
projects
Total volume of scientific data
Fitness for use
WDS/RDA Working Groups
- bridging domains
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Publishing workflows
Publishing Services
Bibliometrics for data
Cost recovery models
Trusted repositories & services
e-Infrastructures
Scientific research
projects
Total volume of scientific data
Collaboration between
data centers & science journals
 linking editorial workflows
 linking services
Consortium
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Research facilities
Data repositories
Universities
Libraries
Industry
Strategic Target 5
• Position ICSU-WDS as the premium
global multidisciplinary network for
quality assessed data
ICSU-WDS – a system of systems
• 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)
multidisciplinary
global
regional
SERVICES
ARCHIVES
disciplinary
Members
THANK YOU