PROGRAM: K-4

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Abstract:

The World Data System (WDS) is an interdisciplinary body of the International Council of Science (ICSU) with a mission to promote international collaborations on data stewardship, long-term preservation and provision of quality-assessed research data and data services. WDS is a membership organization federating scientific data centres, data services and networks thereof across a range of disciplines in the natural and social sciences as well as humanities. WDS has 108 members (70 Regular, 11 Network, 27 Partners and Associate Members) as of 1 September 2017, but the Asia-Oceania region comprises only 17 members (Table 1). The WDS Asia-Oceania Conference will bring together data practitioners, data repositories managers and researchers to reinforce the data stewardship community in the region and help establish a collaborative system for access to and dissemination of research data. In addition, the establishment of such a regional network will support existing international research priorities such those set by the International Council for Science (ICSU) through its programmes: Future Earth, the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, and the Urban Health and Wellbeing. The main objectives of the first conference, to be held in 2017 (Kyoto, Japan), are:

1. Strengthen collaboration in the Asia-Oceania region to reinforce WDS-oriented activities
2. Build and expand WDS community in the Asia-Oceania region
3. Exchange experience on successful WDS trustworthy data-repositories certification and membership application
4. Encourage former ICSU World Data Centres to join WDS
5. Introduce advanced technologies to data management
6. Promote WDS-oriented activities in support of ICSU-led projects in the Asia-Oceania region.