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International Council for Science : Committee on Data for Science and Technology
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C O D A T A

Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in/for/with Developing Countries (PASTD)

(formerly Preservation and Archiving of Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries;
name change approved by the CODATA Officers in May 2005)

Approved by the CODATA 23rd General Assembly in Montréal 2002
Renewal approved by the CODATA General Assembly, Berlin 2004
Renewal approved by the CODATA 25th General Assembly, Beijing 2006
Renewal approved by the CODATA 26th General Assembly, Kyiv 2008
Renewal approved by the CODATA 27th General Assembly, Cape Town 2010
Renewal approved by the CODATA 28th General Assembly, Taipei 2012


Membership

Co-Chairs:
  • Prof. Xingfa Gu
    Director of Institute of Remote Sensing Applications,
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Add. No.3 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101
    CHINA
    Tel.:+86 10-6485 5711 - Fax: +86 10-6488 9570
    Emal: guxingfa@irsa.ac.cn


  • Prof. Mabel Imbuga
    Vice Chancellor,Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
    P.O. Box 62000, City Square, Nairobi, 00200
    KENYA
    Tel.: 254-067-52711- Fax: 254-67-52164
    Emai: vc@jkuat.ac.ke

    Horst Kremers
    Chair, CODATA-Germany
    P.O. Box: 20 05 48
    13515 Berlin
    GERMANY
    Email: office@horst-kremers.de
Secretary:

  • Prof. Chuang Liu
    Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
    No.11A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101
    CHINA
    Tel: 86-10-6488 9805 - Fax: 86-10-6485 0917
    Email: lchuang@igsnrr.ac.cn
Members:

Sub-group 1: Policy and Capacity Building Sub-group (PCBS)

Chair

  • Dr. Raed M. Sharif
    Adjunct Professor, the Information School at Syracuse University.
    Independent Consultant in Open Data & Knowledge for Social Change, Innovation, and Development, Toronto
    CANADA
    Tel.: +1-647-567-2212
    Email: raedsharif@gmail.com

Members:

  • Dr. Mika Odido
    IOC Sub Commission for Africa and the Adjacent Island States
    UNESCO Multi-Sectoral Office in Nairobi
    UN Gigiri Complex Bloick C
    P.O. Box 30592-00100，
    Nairobi, Kenya
    Tel: +254 20 7621244
    Email:  m.odido@unesco.org

  • Dr. Jianhui Li
    Director of Scientific Data Centre
    Computer Network Information Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Secretary General, China National Committee for CODATA
    4 Zhongguancun Nansijie, Haidian District, Beijing 100190 - P.O. Box 349
    CHINA
    Phone: 86-10-58812541
    Fax: +86-10-58812268　 
    Email: lijh@cnic.cn  

  • Dr. Vanderlei Perez Canhos
    Director, Reference Center on Environmental Information
    Avenida Romeu Tórtima 388, Cidade Universitária, 13084-520 Campinas, SP, CRIA
    BRAZIL
    Tel: 55(19) 32880466
    Fax: 55 (19) 32490960
    Email: vcanhos@cria.org.br

  • Prof. Robert John Lancashire
    Computational Chemistry， Department of Chemistry
    The University of the West Indies
    Mona, Kingston 7
    JAMAICA, West Indies
    Tel: (876) 927-1910
    Fax: (876) 977-1835
    Email: Robert.lancashire@uwimona.edu.jm

  • Dr. Vishwas Chavan
    Information Division
    National Chemical Laboratory
    Dr. Homi Bhabha Road
    Pune 411008 INDIA
    Tel: +91 20 2590 2484
    Email: chavan.vishwas@gmail.com

  • Dr. David L Giaretta
    Director, Alliance for Permanent Access
    Add.: 2 High Street, Yetminster, Dorset, DT9 6LF
    UK
    Tel: +44 1935 872660
    Mob: +44 7770 326 304
    Email: director@alliancepermanentaccess.org

  • Dr. Alexander M. Sterin
    All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information
    6 Korolev Str , Obninsk, Kaluga Reg., 249035
    RUSSIA
    Tel: +7 95 2552467, or +7 84 3974658
    Email: sterin@meteo.ru

  •  Prof.  Sayed M. Arafat
    Head of Agricultural Applications, Soils & Marine Dept. National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences
    Vice President of African Association of Remote Sensing and Environment (for North Africa)
    Add.: 23, Josef Tito St. Alnozha El-Gedida, Cairo,
    EGYPT
    P.O. Box: 1564 Alf-Maskan
    Tel: +202-26251220   
    Fax: +202-26225800
    Email: drsayed.arafat@gmail.com

  • Prof. Yoshifumi Yasuoka
    University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science,
    Add.: 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8505
    JAPAN
    Tel: +81 3 54526409 (or 6411)
    Email: yyasuoka@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  • Dr. Charat Mongkolsawat
    President, Remote Sensing and GIS Association of Thailand
    Computer Center Building, Khon Kaen University
    Khon Kaen, 400002
    THAILAND
    Tel: 66-43-348268
    Fax: 66-43-348267
    Email: charat@kku.ac.th

  • Dr. Dato’ Dr Darus Ahmad
    Director General, Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency (ARSM)
    Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI)
    No.13, Jalan Tun Ismail, 50480 KUALA LUMPUR
    MALAYSIA
    Tel : 603-2697 3400
    Email: darus@remotesensing.gov.my

  • One member from Mongolia will be added

Sub-group 2: Show Cases and Best Practices System Sub-group (SCBS)

Chair:
  • Dr. Xiang   Zhou
    Director of Department of Science and Technology, Institute of Remote Sensing Applications
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Add. No.3 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101
    CHINA
    Tel.:+86 10-64846825
    Fax: +86 10-64864643
    Emil: zhouxiang@irsa.ac.cn

Members:
  • Dr. Zheping Xu
    Assistant to Director of Documentation and Information Centre
    Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Add.: No.20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan, Beijing
    CHINA
    Tel: 86-10-62836847
    Fax: 86-10-82593448
    Email: xuzp@ibcas.ac.cn

  • Dr. Yefremov Kostiantyn
    Director of the WDC-Ukraine
    Member of Executive Board, CODATA National Committee, National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
    Add.: 37, Peremohy ave., Building No.6, NTUU “KPI”, Kyiv, 03056
    UKRAINE
    Tel.: (+380 44) 406 8014
    Fax: (+380 44) 406 8153

    E-mail: k.yefremov@wdc.org.ua

  • Dr. John Faundeen
    Archivist, U.S. Geological Survey
    Earth Resources Observation and Science Centre
    Add.: 47914-252nd Street
    Sioux Falls, SD 57198
    USA
    Tel: 605-594-6092
    Fax: 707-222-0223
    Email: faundeen@usgs.gov

  • Mr. Wim Hugo
    Chief Data and Information Officer, Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), ICSU WDS Scientific Committee, National Research Foundation
    SOUTH AFRICA
    Tel: +27 21 880 0885
    Email: wim@saeon.ac.za

  • Dr. Tomoko Doko
    Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and
    Part-time lecturer at Keio University
    Add.: Yokohama National University, 79-7 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama city, Kanagawa Prefecture, 240-8501
    JAPAN
    Tel: +81-45-339-4356
    E-mail: dokochan@ynu.ac.jp

  • Dr. Milton Kampel
    Head of Remote Sensing Division
    Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
    Add.: Chefe da Divisão de Sensoriamento Remoto
    Av. dos Astronautas, 1758
    Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Paulo BRASIL
    Tel: 55-12-3208 6447
    Fax: 55-12-3208 6488
    Email: milton@dsr.inpe.br

  • Dr. Ana Cristina Amoroso das Neves vcard
    Director, Department of Information Society, Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education
    Taguspark, Av. Prof. Dr. Cavaco Silva, Edifficio Qualidade, Bloco G2-3A, 2740-120, Porto Salvo
    PORTUGAL
    Tel: +351 213 911 555
    Fax: +351 213 956 519
    Email: ana.neves@fct.pt

Consultants:
  • Paul F. Uhlir, J.D.
    Director of the Board on Research Data and Information at the U.S. National Academies
    Policy and Global Affairs Division
    The National Academies
    Add: Room 511, 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
    USA
    Tel: +1 (202) 334-1531
    Fax: +1 (202) 334-2231
    Email: puhlir@nas.edu   

  • Prof. Jinnian Wang
    Deputy Director of Institute of Remote Sensing Applications,
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Add. No.3 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101
    CHINA
    Tel: 86-10-64859301
    Fax: 86-10-64889570
    Emal: jwang@irsa.ac.cn

  • Dr. Daisy Selematsela
    Executive Director, Knowledge Management & Evaluation
    National Research Foundation
    Add. Meiring Naude Road, Brummeria
    P.O. Box 2600, Pretoria, 0001
    SOUTH AFRICA
    Tel: +27 (0) 12 481 4158
    Fax: +27 (0) 12 481 4006
    Email: daisys@nrf.ac.za

Objectives

  • Promote a deeper understanding of the needs of developing countries with regard to long-term preservation, archiving, and permanent access to scientific and technical (S&T) data.

  • Advance the development and adoption of improved S&T data archiving procedures, technologies, standards, and policies, with special attention to these efforts in developing countries.

  • Provide an interdisciplinary forum and mechanisms for exchanging information about S&T data archiving requirements and activities, with particular focus on the concerns and needs of developing countries. Publish and disseminate broadly the results of these efforts
Recent Activities

  • CODATA2006: Beijing, CHINA

    The Task Group organized a keynote session on archiving at the 20TH CODATA Conference in Beijing, China. More than 70 participates attended the session. Task Group members presented at several conference paper sessions. LIU Chuang, Task Group Co-chair hosted a dinner for the Task Group attendees.

  • Co-Lead Organization (team) of the UN GAID e-SDDC Project

    As one of the important action of WSIS, UN launched the GAID (Global Alliance for ICT and Development) in 2006. The TG worked with Chinese Academy of Sciences, Internet Society of China, Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST), Center of Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, USA, National Research Foundation of South African (NRF) and National Environmental Reference Center, Brazil to launched the UN GAID e-SDDC (Global Alliance for Enhancing Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries), which was approved by UN in 2007. Several members of the Preservation Task Group are participating in a developing United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN-GAID) program: Global Alliance for Enhancing Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries (e-SDDC). This program is co-chaired by Liu Chuang and Paul Uhlir, and its objectives complement and build on the work of the Preservation Task Group.

  • The Task Group, in concert with other organizations, sponsored workshops in Latin American, African and Asia

    • Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development
      This workshop, held in Atibaia, SP, Brazil, from 8-10 May 2007, was another in the series of regional events that the Task Group has been sponsoring since it's inception in 2001. Together with the USNC, the Brazilian NC, and CRIA (Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental), this workshop brought together approximately 100 researchers and experts on open and permanent access to S&T data and information from Latin America, the USA, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. The workshop was structured to (1) review and discuss the high-priority issues relating to enabling open and long-term access to data and information and (2) produce concrete, short-term actions that can be taken to address these issues. A comprehensive report on the conference will be available in the first quarter of 2008. The conference program and presentations are available here: http://www.cria.org.br/eventos/codata2007/agenda.

    • Data Sources for Sustainable Development in SADC Countries
      The CODATA Task Group on Data Sources for Sustainable Development in SADC Countries held its initial organizing workshop in collaboration with the ICSU Regional Office for Africa (ROA), the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, the CODATA Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries, the South African National Committee for CODATA, and the United States National Committee for CODATA. This meeting was held in South Africa at the National Research Foundation on 14-15 May 2007.
      The final report can be found here: http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/COdata/CodataSouthAfrica.html

      The Task Group on Data Sources and this meeting are a direct outcome of the Preservation Task Group workshop that was held in South Africa in 2005.

    • Co-organizer for the International Workshop on UN GAID e-SDDC – A Decentralized Network of Networks on Open Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries, December 4-5, 2007, Beijing China

      As the co-lead organization of the UN GAID e-SDDC, the TG co-organized the Beijing workshop focused on building a decentralized network of networks in China as well as Asia. More than 70 participants attended the workshop. An implementation plan for building an Open Knowledge Environment (OKE) from the joint action between UN GAID e-SDDC Action Line 5 (Showcase Application) and CODATA TG  action in 2008 and IAP (Inter Academy Panel) project related was discussed. More than 10 countries and more than 40 organizations in Asia will participate in this joint action in 2008.

Outreach

TG Co-chair William Anderson attended the Open Repository 2007 Conference in San Antonio, Texas. A written report can be retrieved here:
http://praxis101.com/docs/OR2007-ConferenceReport.rtf

TG Co-chair LIU Chuang attended the 2nd Strategy Council Meeting of UN GAID from 27-28 February California, USA, the UN GAID e-SDDC Implementation Plan for 2007 was presented at the meeting.
More information at http://www.un-gaid.org/en/node/237

TG Co-chair LIU Chuang attended the 10th Conference of Science and Technology for Development of UN from 21-25 May 2007, Geneva. Liu Chuang was invited to be the Panel of UN GAID Session of the Conference and provide a speech on what we may do for developing countries from the aspect of scientific data, information and capacity building.

TG Co-chair LIU Chuang attended the WGISS/CEOS meeting from 15-19 October, Munich, Germany, as the WGISS-CODATA Liaison person and user vice chair of WGISS, LIU Chuang provide two reports, one is the user vice chair report and one is the CODATA liaison report.

TG Co-chair LIU Chuang attended the 2nd IGF (Internet Government Forum) from 12-15 November in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Liu Chuang was invited to present to the panel session on Multi-culture and Internet Norm.

TGCo-chair LIU Chuang attended the International Workshop on 2007’s Natural Disaster and Emergency Management from 22-24 September, 2007, Beijing, China, which was co-sponsored by the International Society of Emergency Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Inter Academy Panel. Liu Chuang provided a presentation on the strategy of the decentralized network of networks of scientific data in developing countries.

Final report and executive summary of the Strategies for Open and Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Latin America: Focus on Health and Environmental Information for Sustainable Development workshop, that was held in Atibaia, SP, Brazil, from 8-10 May 2007 will be published and made available 1st quarter 2008.

Report on building a decentralized network of networks of open access to and application of scientific data in developing countries, will be published in English and in Chinese. The report is jointly published by the UN GAID e-SDDC team, and will be available online at the Task Group web site and as a hard copy publication.

An initial planning committee meeting for a 2009 Kyiv regional workshop will be held in concert with the CODATA 2008 International Conference.

In addition, the Task Group will organize sessions at CODATA 2008 specifically focusing on archiving and long-term preservation and access to S&T data.

The Task Group, through its members, will continue to work with the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN-GAID) program: Global Alliance for Enhancing Access to and Application of Scientific Data in Developing Countries (e-SDDC).

The Task Group will continue to facilitate and participate in the ongoing discussions regarding the issues, challenges, and progress in archiving, preservation, and long-term access to scientific and technical data in developing countries. To date the Task Group has raised the visibility of CODATA in other, related professional and NGO activities in two ways. The CODATA workshops have brought new researchers in contact with CODATA. And TG members do represent CODATA in their other activities.

Plans are underway to hold another in the series of regional workshops on preservation and access in the Kyiv region in 2009.

The Task Group, through its members, will seek to collaborate with other international activities that focus on issues of archiving and preservation of digital resources. Potential activities and organizations include the (1) World Bank archiving group and their learning program on records management; (2) WIPO’s efforts to facilitate intellectual property capacity building and database preservation, and innovation in developing countries. There’s an opportunity to re-connect with the International Council on Archives.

As the volume and use of data collected worldwide continues to grow exponentially, the effective long-term preservation of and access to these information resources likewise increases in importance. The preservation, management, and archiving of digital S&T data in many cases poses greater, and significantly different, challenges than those in print formats. These challenges are not only technical, but involve new scientific, financial, organizational, management, legal, and policy considerations. Moreover, although many of the challenges that require sustainable solutions are the same for digital data across all disciplines, others are distinct or unique for certain disciplines or data types. Developing countries, in particular, face the greatest hurdles, yet there are very few international and interdisciplinary activities addressing S&T data issues and problems in the developing world context. Resolving the many different problems in the preservation and archiving of scientific data successfully today will bear dividends for many generations to come; the costs of failure would be incalculable, but profound.

The Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries has provided a much-needed focus on the data preservation and archiving practices of developing countries. The Task Group is fully consistent with the international and interdisciplinary goals of CODATA, and directly promotes many of the specific organizational objectives of CODATA as set forth in its Constitution and Statement of Mission. The Task Group also helps fulfil some of the important objectives of ICSU and many of its constituent unions, interdisciplinary ICSU bodies, and affiliated organizations such as the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI). The Task Group members are cognizant of many of the other international efforts in digital archiving that are already underway outside the immediate ICSU organization, particularly in the professional records management, archiving, and library communities, and have and will continue to collaborate and coordinate with those other activities in order to avoid unnecessary redundancies and to maximize the effectiveness of the Task Group’s work.

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