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CODATA Marks 45th Anniversary with High-level Meeting on Data at CEODE
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BEIJING—To commemorate its 45th anniversary, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) held a high-level scientific meeting in Beijing on Oct. 30, 2011 to discuss discovery and innovation in the age of data-intensive science.

The meeting brought together CODATA’s members and contributors to look back on the international organization’s history as well as begin formulating the next iteration of CODATA’s strategic plan. A number of internationally renowned scientists, including those from China and abroad, attended plenary sessions at the Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth (CEODE), an institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS). The day’s events culminated in the Celebration Ceremony, the focus of which were interdisciplinary and international cooperation.

Founded in 1966 as an interdisciplinary body of the International Council for Science (ICSU), CODATA is responsible for coordinating data policies and standards across research fields in support of scientific activities. For example, one CODATA task group provides recommended values for the fundamental physical constants, which researchers and engineers use throughout the physical sciences and their applications.

To open the meeting, Ding Zhongli, President of the CODATA National Committee of China and vice- president of CAS, delivered welcoming remarks. This was followed by keynotes from Sálvano Briceño, incoming Chair of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) program’s Scientific Committee, and Zhang Xianen, Director-General of the Department of Basic Research, China Ministry of Science and Technology.

To wrap up the morning, Takashi Gojobori, CODATA Vice-President and Professor at the National Institute of Genetics, Japan, chaired a session themed “The Frontline and Future of Data-intensive Science”. Researchers from Microsoft, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and Colorado State University spoke about the use of data in cutting-edge science, and what directions the “data deluge” might take science in the years to come.

In the afternoon, CODATA Vice-President Fedor Kuznetsov led a session--highlighting CODATA’s success stories over the last four and a half decades. It was followed by an interactive session in which Chair Robert Chen invited input from CODATA members, as well as from the audience. Their contributions will be used to create the CODATA Strategic Plan for 2013-2018.

CODATA President and CEODE Director-General Guo Huadong, along with University of Tokyo Professor Shuichi Iwata, closed out the day with a Celebration Ceremony. After some opening remarks from Bai Chunli, President  of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guo presented “CODATA 45 years on”, an overview of the past, present, and future of CODATA. Attendees also heard from ICSU President and Nobel Laureate Yuan Tseh Lee and former ICSU Vice-President Sun Honglie. To reflect on their tenures at CODATA and offer their thoughts on where the organization is heading, Past Presidents Krishan Lal, Shuichi Iwata, and John Rumble briefly returned to the podium.

Also given a chance to speak were representatives from four international organizations, including Xu Guanhua, Member of the Strategy Council of the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN-GAID) and former minister of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology(MOST); Jayakumar Ramasamy, Programme Specialist for the UNESCO Beijing Office;   Zhou Heng, representing Mr. Zheng Guoguang, Member of the World Meteorological Organization Executive Council and Director of the China Meteorological Administration; and Liao Xiaohan,Director of the National Remote Sensing Center of China affiliated with MOST, representing the Chinese member of Group on Earth Observations.

The final segment of the Celebration Ceremony featured three collaboration initiatives. CODATA and the IRDR program signed a memorandum of understanding to formally recognize their intention for a future partnership. Expressing the same intention, Milan Konecný, Vice-President of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) spoke about the potential for joint efforts with CODATA. Finally, Ronal Abler, President of the International Geographical Union, launched the Digital LIN CHAO Geomuseum with Liu Yanhua, President of Geographical Society of China, and Liu Chuang, Professor at IGSNRR, CAS.

The meeting was held amid a number of other meetings in Beijing, including the China-US Roundtable Meeting for data sharing, and IRDR Conference 2011.


More than 150 scientists from China and abroad present at the conference

 
BAI Chunli, President of Chinese Academy of Sciences, gives an address


DING Zhongli, Vice-President of Chinese Academy of Sciences and President of the Chinese National Committee for CODATA, gives a welcoming remark


GUO Huadong, President of CODATA, makes a presentation on CODATA.


Salvano Briceno,Chair-Elect of IRDR Scientific Committee, gives a keynote speech


ZHANG Xian’en, Director General of the Department of Basic Research, MOST, gives a keynote speech

Gordon McBean, President-Elect of ICSU, gives a speech

Jennifer Listgarten, Microsoft Representative, gives a speech

 GAO Wei, Professor, Colorado State University,gives a speech

Takashi.Gojobori, Vice-President of CODATA, gives a speech

Fedor Kuznetsov, Vice-President of CODATA,gives a speech

Krishan Lal, President of Indian National Science Academy,  Past-President of CODATA, gives a speech

Paul Uhlir, Representative of China-US Roundtable, gives a speech

Robert Chen, Secretary General of CODATA, gives a speech

Yuan Tseh Lee, President of ICSU, gives an address

 Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Secretary General of IUGG, gives a speech

SUN Honglie, Former Vice-President of ICSU and CODATA, gives a speech

XU Guanhua, Former Minister of MOST,Member of UN-GAID Strategy Council, gives a speech

CODATA-IRDR MoU signing ceremony

CODATA-ISDE MoU signing ceremony

 

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