APAN WGs Highlights

APAN Open and Sharing Data (OSD) Working Group

Chair: Veerachai Tanpipat (veerachai@hii.or.th,iamtanpipat@hotmail.com)

Co-chair: Basuki Suhardiman (basuki@itb.ac.id)

Co-chair: Eric Yen (Eric.Yen@twgrid.org)

Co-chair: J. Adinarayana (adi@csre.iitb.ac.in)

Co-chair: Akane Takezaki (akane@affrc.go.jp)

Co-chair: Markus Buchhorn (markus@apan.net)

About OSDWG: With the fundamental problems of open data and data sharing which are huge handle to many researchers and research communities, it is therefore in need of bringing those issues on the table for APAN community to discuss and find out possible solutions together. The main goal that the WG would like to achieve is “To improve research data sharing and reduce information access pain by increasing the informatics and/or data sharing culture” among researchers within APAN.

New Initiatives: Each of those will become work-packages for the working group with their own plans for support and implementation.

1.Raise awareness, support capability-building, and undertaking needs analysis of open data standards and sharing services within the Asia-Pacific, through working with each WG and National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in the region

2.Support the provision of Data Discovery Services, Repositories and associated services, working with interested disciplines

3.Establishing a framework for ‘Data Standards, Interoperability and Best practices in Asia-Pacific Region,’ including metrics of maturity, and to share existing international guidelines and standards. This will help provide a forum for stronger regional collaboration around open data across the region.

4.Collaborate with similar platforms and groups like United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Asia and the Pacific (UN-GGIM-AP), UNESCO, Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) and Research Data Alliance (RDA) to ensure global collaboration is fully supported.

5.Identify contacts for each country or NREN who know how to access research data locally in different disciplines or communities, or what is happening on the national scene around data-sharing, who are willing to work with APAN-OSDWG and help improve open and sharing data activities.

For APAN53, we are planning to:

1.Invite speakers of good practices from each country or NREN

2.Undertake deeper discussion into needs from each NREN

3.Engage with WGs to identify priority issues, needs and wishes

4.Explore shared activities with RDA, including training, workshops