2025 WDS Members Forum: Africa & Europe Regional Session

2025 WDS Members Forum Africa & Europe Regional Session 18 November 11:00 UTC | 12:00 CET/WEST | 13:00 EET DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17651477 Explore the Path to Proper Participation: Visit Our Etiquette Page! •Go to worlddatasystem.org/virtual-meeting-etiquette or scan the QR code •We welcome your questions in the Q&A section •Please note that this webinar will be recorded WDS Virtual Meeting Etiquette [email protected] | worlddatasystem.org Agenda •Welcome & Action Plan overview and update •WDS SC Subcommittee on Standards and certifications - Update •DRIVR project results •Pre-forum survey - Reminder •Member lightning talks:4TU.Research Data by Madeleine de Smaele •INTERMAGNET by Jürgen Matzka •National Oceanography Centre by James Ayliffe •Social Science Data Archive in Bosnia Herzegovina (DASS-BIH) by Amela Kurta •Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre (CDS) by Caroline Bot •World Data Centre for Geomagnetism, Edinburgh by Sarah Reay •World Data Centre for Soils by Dr. Bas Kempen •World Glacier Monitoring Service by Michael Zemp, Isabelle Gartner-Roer, Samuel U. Nussbaumer, Ethan Welty •Data Stewardship Award •2025 Award Winners •Youhua Ran’s presentation •2026 Call Open •Discussion •Closing •Optional communication with WDS IPO and ITO offices [email protected] | worlddatasystem.org 2025-2027 WDS Action Plan Overview & Update WDS Mission …is to enhance the capabilities, impact, and sustainability of our member data repositories and data services by: •Creating trusted communities of scientific data repositories •Strengthening the scientific enterprise throughout the entire lifecycle of data and all related components creating first-class data that feeds first-class research output •Advocating for accessible data and transparent and reproducible science 2025-2027 Action Plan 1. Provide services and support to member repositories 2. Advance the value narratives of WDS members 3. Demonstrate global leadership in data governance 4. Advocate for quality, trustworthiness, equitability, and FAIRness of data and data repositories worldwide The World Data System Structure & Function 2018 - ITO created, based at Ocean Networks Canada, University of Victoria 2021 - IPO moved from Japan to the UTK / ORNL, United States Dr. David Castle | [email protected] | worlddatasystem.org WDS Subcommittee on Standards and Certifications Update Why Certification? •Builds Trust within the broader scientific ecosystem •Peer Review Assessment •Alignment with evolving standards •Demonstrates accountability •Commitment to continuous improvement •Mitigates risk perception [email protected] | worlddatasystem.org Comparative Analysis of Certification Frameworks •Overlapping essential minimal requirements for trustworthiness: •Organizational Infrastructure •Digital Object Management •Information Technology and Security •Difference: number of metrics or quantifiable indicators [email protected] | worlddatasystem.org Survey on Certification •Global Participation and Interest •Membership Status and Certification Hurdles •CoreTrustSeal Certification Status •CoreTrustSeal Certification Challenges •Alternative Certifications for WDS Membership [email protected] | worlddatasystem.org Delphi Study - Brainstorming [email protected] | worlddatasystem.org Delphi Study - Brainstorming Brainstorming provided 37 benefits as inputs to the narrowing phase: https://wds-ito.org/value-added-benefits-narrowing/ Aggregated Data Products Artificial Intelligence Data Provision Best Practice Networks Bias Mitigation Categorized and Labelled Data Citizen Science Community Driven Standards and Protocols Community Focused Services Cost-Effective Data Management Cybersecurity Data Curation Data Deposit Services Data Licensing and Legal Compliance Data Management of Major Research Infrastructure Data Quality Assurance Data Rescue Services Data Reuse Data Usage and Impact Analysis Evidence-based Decision Making Interdisciplinary Study Potential Long-term Active Data Preservation Multi-facet Data Discovery and Accessibility Near-Real Time Access Open Data Access Persistent Identifier Application Provenance and Versioning Provision of Education Resources Rare Dataset Access Researcher Collaboration Building Scientific Reproducibility and Robustness Sensitive Data Services Systems Interoperability Technical Quality Assurance Technological Responsiveness and Evolution Third Party Platform Integration Trustworthiness User Training and Support [email protected] | worlddatasystem.org Delphi Study – Ranking & Results Displaying 19 of 37 benefits brainstormed Results to be provided in 2026 We invite you to reach out to us to develop your narratives that align with the higher ranked benefits Pre-Forum Survey - Reminder Sustainability and Emerging Technologies Please complete the survey by 1 December 2025 tiny.utk.edu/WDS_preforum_survey [email protected] | worlddatasystem.org Member Lightning Talks Video: 4TU.Research Data Madeleine de Smaele INTERMAGNET and the World Data System Jürgen Matzka INTERMAGNET Executive Council and Operations Committee https://intermagnet.org/ Juergen.[email protected] INTERMAGNET’s Vision “A global, real-time, permanent geomagnetic observatory network, which is recognized as a key Earth observation system and which provides data that serves scientific research into the Earth, from its deep interior to space, and supports operational services benefiting society.” Member institutes: 51 Member observatories: 157 (incl. historic) INTERMAGNET observatories •Contribution to the IODE programme and UN decade actions •Improvements Towards Automated Submission and Ingestion •Delivery of data management workshops •Reply paper on Global Sea Level Observations •Facilitating New International Data Flows (OBIS/ICES) Highlights of milestones from the past year •IOC Ocean Acidification Metadata Interoperability and Vocabulary Workshops •Complex Citation Recommendations Published •Contribute to international products and standards such as the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO), Argo Float Community and EMODnet products •Development of a Vocabulary Semantic Analyser •CoreTrustSeal reaccreditation due in October 2026 •Increased development for automation, interoperability, integration, data access and data delivery: •Providing API access to high value datasets for enhanced AI usage. •PID registries (specifically for instrumentation) •Catalogues, with a focus on SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs (STAC), a community led common structure for describing and cataloguing spatiotemporal assets; •Semantic interoperability •Governance •Cross-domain interoperability Your repository/organization plans in the near term •Funding •Domestic and international: particularly for routine observation programmes •AI •Rapid access to large volumes of data for Machine Learning •Provenance, TRUST, CARE •Increasing size of data and data complexity •Increased diversity of user requirements Top challenges faced by your repository/organization Video: Social Science Data Archive in Bosnia & Herzegovina (DASS-BIH) Amela Kurta Strasbourg Astronomical Data Centre (CDS) Caroline Bot Strasbourg astronomical Data Centre in 2024-25 Reference Database of Astronomical Objects : ~20 million objects, ~69 million IDs, 49 million citation links, (treating ~15000 articles/yr) Reference service of astronomical catalogues : >27000 Catalogues, > 90 billion rows (curating ~1200 catalogues/yr) Visualisation and image database : 1325+ HiPS surveys: images and cubes (>960 TB) Aladin Desktop Client, Aladin Lite - embeddable web app +Cross-match service, CDS Portal, and many APIs… Made interoperable by standards (IVOA, CDS, +) Intro -Services for reference astronomy data CDS – apart of the astronomy data infrastructure Engagement highlights •Engagement with our users at in-person community conference events. •Training event at IAU 2024 in Cape Town -For African students and educators Milestones and highlights •Output of several years of R&D on visualization of very large data cubes -> HiPS3D prototype •Done in the context of the SKA observatory •But in line with our missions generic to ALL astronomical data cubes 2019 WDS Data Stewardship Award Winner Libby Liggins (center) [email protected] | worlddatasystem.org 2025 WDS Data Stewardship Award Third Place Dr. Bhaleka Persaud Research Data Management Specialist, University of Waterloo, Canada [email protected] | worlddatasystem.org Prof. Micheal Olaolu Arowolo Assistant Professor of Health Informatics, Xavier University of Louisiana, USA 2025 WDS Data Stewardship Award Second Place [email protected] | worlddatasystem.org 2025 WDS Data Stewardship Award First Place Dr. Youhua Ran Professor Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Watch his presentation on his impactful work that led to this award. 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