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The importance of data sharing within GEOSS
1 June 2009
In 2006, the Group on Earth
Observations (GEO) established
Task DA-06-01, “Furthering
the Practical
Application of the Agreed
GEOSS Data Sharing Principles,”
and invited GEO Members
and Participating
Organizations to help implement
the task. The International
Council for Science
(ICSU), working through its
interdisciplinary Committee
on Data for Science and Technology
(CODATA), agreed to
lead this task under the auspices
of the GEO Architecture
and Data Committee and to
draft a “white paper” recommending
data sharing principles
for GEO and guidelines for implementation them.
In Bucharest last November, the GEO Plenary took another step
forward by agreeing on the “Establishment of a Data Sharing
Principles Task Force comprising GEO Members and including the
current Task team”. The first meeting of the Task Force will take
place in Geneva at the end of May. This Special Issue of the CODATA
Newsletter carries an interview with José Achache, Director
of the GEO Secretariat. He discusses the issue of data sharing
within the GEOSS context and looks forward to the activities of
the new Task Force in the period leading up to the next GEO Ministerial
Summit in 2010. [...]
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Source: CODATA
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