Open Data in Global Environmental Research: The Belmont Forum’s Open Data Survey | Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-02-03

Summary:

"The Belmont Forum is a group of high-level representatives from major funding agencies across the globe. It coordinates funding for collaborative research actions to address the challenges and opportunities of global environmental change. To collaboratively develop capable e-infrastructures that can meet the data arising from the Belmont Challenge and the Future Earth agenda, a multi-phased E-Infrastructure and Data Management Collaborative Research Action (CRA) was initiated in late 2013. The main goal of this initiative is to develop a strategy and implementation plan to further shape strategic science policies, outlining what can be done better, in a multilateral way, to fund and support global environmental change research. In pursuit of this goal, the Belmont Forum working group on open data (one of 6 working groups under this CRA) developed a survey inviting researchers of various science communities and others who are providing and/or using open data in the scope of global environmental change, to share their views and experiences on data publishing, access and (re)use. Nineteen questions of the survey were distributed through targeted (disciplinary and professional) mailing lists.  FINDINGS: PERCEIVED PROPERTIES AND ATTRIBUTES OF OPEN DATA ..."

Link:

http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/open-data-global-environmental-research-belmont-forum%E2%80%99s-open-data-survey

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Tags:

oa.new oa.surveys oa.climate oa.environment oa.data oa.infrastructure oa.reports

Date tagged:

02/03/2016, 12:41

Date published:

02/03/2016, 07:41