Made with Data – Is Research Data of interest to industry?
12 June 2014 - 12 June 2014
Austria
We live in the data generation. All of society’s grand challenges—be it addressing rapid climate change, curing cancer and other disease, providing food and water for more than seven billion people, understanding the origins of the universe or the mind—all of them require diverse and sometimes very large data to be shared and integrated across communities, scales, and technologies.
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is building the social and technical bridges that enable open exchange of data on a global level.
Why is this important? Scientists and researchers around the world are conducting millions of experiments every day and according to statistics more than 80% of the data generated by them sits on their computers never to be shared, exchanged or preserved for future use. Many times this is not tied to a lack of willingness to share research data but due to technical challenges in converting, accessing and storing it in the right place, right format so that while the originator of the data still owns it he / she can offer it for use by others now and in the long term future to create new experiments and find new answers and solutions to the societal challenges faced globally.
Formed of over 1,600 experts from around the world – from academia, industry and government and launched in March 2013, RDA has seen a continued growth towards consolidating a worldwide organization by mobilizing both data practitioners and data scientists to improve data sharing, management, interoperability and re-use in a time where heterogeneity of data organizations at all levels is increasing thanks to scientific innovation.
Already this year RDA will have a first set of tangible outputs to be taken up and implemented by different initiatives and organisations from academia and research as well as the private sector across the globe. The Made with Data workshop, at Futur en Seine , 12th June 2014 Paris, France focuses on how the Research Data Alliance and players from both public administration, academia and industry can work together to achieve the RDA vision of researchers and innovators openly sharing data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society. The workshop aims to understand the needs from the stakeholders, what practical activities RDA can implement to ensure stakeholders are involved in all or parts of the RDA cycle – ideation, development, take-up and implementation.
Answers to the question Should Data really be open, global and freely available? can be explored with Henri Verdier, the French Government’s Chief Data Officer providing a perspective from both a national and public administration viewpoint. While the Carlos Morais-Pires from the European Commission will enlighten participants on why the EC prioritises investments in research data initiatives and infrastructures and what are the corresponding societal benefits. The Australian National Data Service is one of the founding organisations of RDA and the Executive Director Ross Wilkinson will outline why national level activities must be plugged in to a global context.
Patrick Cocquet, CEO, Cap Digtal will give a view from on the benefits of industrial engagement with the Research Data Alliance and Monica Marinucci, Director Research Industry - Global Education & Research Industry Business Unit, Oracle will provide concrete examples of how industry and research collaborate to enable solutions and support for Big Data challenges.
Do you believe that Research Data can be smart? The Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL) does. This high-performance infrastructure facility and the supply of data from industrial processes are major prerequisites for excellent research relating to big data and KIT, Till Riedel, Research Director will show how.
Yann Le Franc, a French researcher and entrepreneur with a brand new start-up on semantic annotation gives insight from a start-up on why the research data world is a future business for him. He and many others like him can benefit from a host of initiatives and support structures including the TeraLab Big Data platform for research and innovation, presented by Pierre Pleven, Innovation Manager, Institut Mines Telecom.
RDA is of value to industry as it helps create the context for higher-level business services and value-propositions to be created based on RDA recommendations and outputs. Industry should in turn push governments for publicly-funded research data to be subject to RDA agreements on simplifying and harmonizing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), licenses and procedures.
Organisations producing data, developing technologies or offering services can all benefit from engagement with RDA for example in internationalising, ensuring interoperability, being up to date and in-line with international procedures and standards, acquiring knowledge, expertise and having a strong technological argument to convince customers.
Find out more Made with Data Workshop - Futur en Seine (http://www.futur-en-seine.fr/fens2014/en/(opens in new window)) 12th June 2014 – 09:30 – 12:00, Paris, France. Venue: CNAM - Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, 292 Rue Saint-Martin - 75003 Paris. Métro: Réaumur-Sébastopol (4, 3), Arts et Métiers (11, 3). Participation is free and open to all.
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is building the social and technical bridges that enable open exchange of data on a global level.
Why is this important? Scientists and researchers around the world are conducting millions of experiments every day and according to statistics more than 80% of the data generated by them sits on their computers never to be shared, exchanged or preserved for future use. Many times this is not tied to a lack of willingness to share research data but due to technical challenges in converting, accessing and storing it in the right place, right format so that while the originator of the data still owns it he / she can offer it for use by others now and in the long term future to create new experiments and find new answers and solutions to the societal challenges faced globally.
Formed of over 1,600 experts from around the world – from academia, industry and government and launched in March 2013, RDA has seen a continued growth towards consolidating a worldwide organization by mobilizing both data practitioners and data scientists to improve data sharing, management, interoperability and re-use in a time where heterogeneity of data organizations at all levels is increasing thanks to scientific innovation.
Already this year RDA will have a first set of tangible outputs to be taken up and implemented by different initiatives and organisations from academia and research as well as the private sector across the globe. The Made with Data workshop, at Futur en Seine , 12th June 2014 Paris, France focuses on how the Research Data Alliance and players from both public administration, academia and industry can work together to achieve the RDA vision of researchers and innovators openly sharing data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society. The workshop aims to understand the needs from the stakeholders, what practical activities RDA can implement to ensure stakeholders are involved in all or parts of the RDA cycle – ideation, development, take-up and implementation.
Answers to the question Should Data really be open, global and freely available? can be explored with Henri Verdier, the French Government’s Chief Data Officer providing a perspective from both a national and public administration viewpoint. While the Carlos Morais-Pires from the European Commission will enlighten participants on why the EC prioritises investments in research data initiatives and infrastructures and what are the corresponding societal benefits. The Australian National Data Service is one of the founding organisations of RDA and the Executive Director Ross Wilkinson will outline why national level activities must be plugged in to a global context.
Patrick Cocquet, CEO, Cap Digtal will give a view from on the benefits of industrial engagement with the Research Data Alliance and Monica Marinucci, Director Research Industry - Global Education & Research Industry Business Unit, Oracle will provide concrete examples of how industry and research collaborate to enable solutions and support for Big Data challenges.
Do you believe that Research Data can be smart? The Smart Data Innovation Lab (SDIL) does. This high-performance infrastructure facility and the supply of data from industrial processes are major prerequisites for excellent research relating to big data and KIT, Till Riedel, Research Director will show how.
Yann Le Franc, a French researcher and entrepreneur with a brand new start-up on semantic annotation gives insight from a start-up on why the research data world is a future business for him. He and many others like him can benefit from a host of initiatives and support structures including the TeraLab Big Data platform for research and innovation, presented by Pierre Pleven, Innovation Manager, Institut Mines Telecom.
RDA is of value to industry as it helps create the context for higher-level business services and value-propositions to be created based on RDA recommendations and outputs. Industry should in turn push governments for publicly-funded research data to be subject to RDA agreements on simplifying and harmonizing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), licenses and procedures.
Organisations producing data, developing technologies or offering services can all benefit from engagement with RDA for example in internationalising, ensuring interoperability, being up to date and in-line with international procedures and standards, acquiring knowledge, expertise and having a strong technological argument to convince customers.
Find out more Made with Data Workshop - Futur en Seine (http://www.futur-en-seine.fr/fens2014/en/(opens in new window)) 12th June 2014 – 09:30 – 12:00, Paris, France. Venue: CNAM - Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, 292 Rue Saint-Martin - 75003 Paris. Métro: Réaumur-Sébastopol (4, 3), Arts et Métiers (11, 3). Participation is free and open to all.