Description
This session aims to highlight the Policies and practice of Data with a focus on the societal aspects and ethical issues. As data is central to societal processes, it is essential to understand the interchange of Societal aspects such as ethics and politics that tend to influence the way data is treated, exchanged, used, and re-used. In the process, it is also important to understand the evolving practices that foster standard and unhindered use of data. With advances in digital technologies and AI enabled tools for data manipulation, the focus is also on achieving research goals while maintaining ethics and encouraging the use and reuse of data as a public good.
Objectives:
The objectives of the session are to bring focus and foster discussions on issues around responsible research, ethics of data use, and societal impact. The general objectives are to highlight
• Data as a public good
• Responsible research and data openness
• Societal aspects of data: privacy issues, personal and sensitive data
• Disciplinary aspects such Inter, Intra and trans-disciplinary research
• Ethical issues and Practices
The SCIDATACON session on Policy and Practice Data in Research, Society, ethics and Politics has interesting presentations on an array of related topics as enlisted:
• From RAiDs to Riches: how a local project ID got big global ideas
• Open data science and responsible research
• Governing Sensitive Personal Data Access and Data Publication in Intra-, Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research
• Toward a FAIR Data Policy for Chile: Building a National Ecosystem for Open and Responsible Data
• Democratizing Data Management: Academia’s Responsibility to Community Partners
• Connecting researchers to the Australian data linkage landscape through institutional investment and communities of practice
• Rethinking Data Governance: A Three-Pillar Approach for Public Universities
Session Chair: Devika Madalli
In 2017, RAiD was a budding new concept and the early beginnings of a technical system for identifying and tracking research projects. The idea of RAiD as a project identifier itself came out of a project - an Australian project to better track the research data lifecycle which put research projects at centre stage. Today, RAiD is an ISO standard for Project Identifiers (23527:2022) with a...
From open data to open methods
Observation, interpretation, and communication are key elements of research. Whereas open science has traditionally emphasized open data and publications, the openness of research methods has received less attention. Methodology – the derivation of results and conclusions from the data – is as critical to the understanding and trust on scientific outcomes....
Open Research Data (ORD) is fundamental to the transparency and reproducibility of scientific results. It fosters scientific exchange and networking. In line with ORD strategies and funding agencies' requirements, research data should be published as openly as possible. Despite the advantages ORD brings to research, however, the publication of research data can be subject to restrictions. This...
In an era where data is central to scientific discovery, innovation, and public policy, Chile is taking significant steps toward developing a comprehensive national strategy for FAIR data management. This presentation introduces the Estrategia FAIR, a multi-institutional initiative aimed at embedding the principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR) into...
Trends in artificial intelligence and machine learning have made metadata, data governance and data quality more relevant than ever. However, despite these advancements, organisational approaches remain focused on central data teams, rather than distributing data governance and metadata management across the organisation. Because of this existing methods for measuring data governance maturity...
Community-based, not-for-profit organizations are critical partners in public interest research across disciplines. This presentation explores how community engaged researchers, data stewards, and librarians can embed data management training for community partners into existing workflows by leveraging data curation as a source of knowledge about training needs.
While it is well-known that...
Situation
Recent technological progress has significantly enhanced our capacity to link person-level data across diverse sectors for research in Australia. Key advancements include: legislation to facilitate data access and availability, streamlined governance processes, enriched metadata, more efficient data linkage, and enhanced statistical methods and training. Collectively these...
Strategic and responsible management of research data is essential for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) such as Universidad Nacional (UNA) in Costa Rica, particularly within the context of LMICs given the existing challenges such as budgetary constraints, demands for transparency, and increasing expectations concerning social, economic, and environmental impacts. UNA has just completed 52...
