Scientific Program
This is a DRAFT program which will be updated and amended weekly between now and the Conference - last update: September 6, 2010
Friday, 22 October 2010 |
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Saturday, 23 October 2010 |
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Sunday, 24 October 2010 |
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| 12:00 |
Registration opens |
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| 18:00-19:00 |
Official Opening of the 22nd International CODATA Conference Naledi Pandor, Minister of Science and Technology, South Africa |
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Monday, 25 October 2010 |
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8:30-8:50 |
Welcome Remarks |
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8:50-9:30 |
Keynote Speaker Lidia Brito, Head of the Science Policy Division, UNESCO |
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9:30-11:00 |
High Level Session A1 Philemon Mjwara, Director General, Department of Science & Technology, South Africa (TBC) Earth Observation Technology for Wenchuan and Yushu Earthquake Disaster Monitoring and Data Sharing Representative, United States GEO, (TBC) |
High Level Session A2 GRDI2020 - Towards a 10-Year Vision for Global Research Data Infrastructures (1) Chair: Erwin LaureEuropean Commission Visions for Next Generation Global Data Infrastructures (TBC) Next Generation Global Data Infrastructures The SANReN Experience (TBC) GRDI Vision for Next Generation Global Data Infrastructures Costantino Thanos Cost-Effective, Efficient Collaborative Research Environments... with User Needs Wovem into the Fabric Lee Dirks |
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| 11:00-11:15 |
Coffee Break | |||||||||
| 11:15-12:45 |
B1 Access to and Reuse of Public Sector Information: Co-Chairs: Tyng-Ruey Chuang and Paul Uhlir |
B2 Scientific Data for Sustainable Development (1) Chair: (TBC) |
B3 GRDI2020 - Towards a 10-Year Vision for Global Research Data Infrastructures (2) Chair: Yannis Ioannidis |
B4 Next Generation Astronomical Challenges Chair: Ray Norris |
B5 Interoperability of Materials Databases Co-Chairs: Toshihiro Ashino and Laura Bartolo |
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| B1-1: | B2-1: | B3-1 | B4-1: | B5-1: | ||||||
| Public Sector Information Online: Measuring the Social and Economic Costs and Benefits Paul Uhlir and Raed Sharif |
Developing Information Society Innovations’ Communications Awareness Campaigns Strategy for Sustainable Development Wilson Okaka |
Visionary Presentation (TBC) |
Data Challenges of Next-Generation Radio Telescopes Ray Norris |
Using OAI-ORE to Capture the Provenance and Results
of Materials Science Research Jane Hunter |
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| B1-2: | B2-2: | B3-2 | B4-2: | B5-2: | ||||||
| Considerations for Information Accessibility of Very Large Datasets Puneet Kishor |
System Adjustment of Different Nature Data for Global Modeling of Sustainable Development Mikhail Zgurovsky |
Technological Challenges and recommendations for a Global Research Data Infrastructure GRDI2020 Technological Working Group Representative |
Meerkat and the Square Kilometre Array Kurt Van Heyden |
On Design, Quality and Exchangeable aspects of Indian Materials Database S. Rajeswari |
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| B1-3: | B2-3 : | B3-3 | B4-3: | B5-3: | ||||||
| How the Data Commons Is Being Built Using Open Content Licences Anne Fiztgerald |
Stewarding African Social Science Research Data |
The South African Virtual Observatory |
Materials Informatics and WikiMicroGraphia Mita Tarafder |
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| B1-4: | B2-4: | B3-4 | B4-4 | B5-4 | ||||||
| The Value of Public Sector Information for Socioeconomic Development Research and Policy Activities in South Africa Raed Sharif |
Dynamics of Knowledge Circulation for Sustainability Innovation Yarime Masaru |
Organisational & Policy Challenges and Recommendations for a Global Research Data Infrastructure GRDI2020 Organisational/Policy Working Group Representative |
Data Management for the SALT Telescope (TBC) |
International activities for Interoperability of Material Databases,
CEN WS ELSSI-EMD/VAMAS TWA35/AMDC and CODATA
Toshihiro Ashino |
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| B1-5: | B2-5: | B3-5 | B4-5 | B5-5 | ||||||
| Public Licenses for the Public Sector: Some Experience from Taiwan Tyng-Ruey Chuang |
Harnessing data flow potentials for sustainable applications of Science, Technology and Innovation for African Development |
Moderated Discussions and Feedback from Participants/Audience |
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Materials Science Data Management Survey: How the present can inform our future Laura Bartolo & Todd Carpenter |
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| 12:45-13:45 |
Lunch | |||||||||
| 13:45-15:15 |
C1 Data Access & Policy Issues Chair: (TBC) |
C2 CODATA TGDC and UN GAID e-SDDC Joint Session: CODATA Benefits Developing World – Past and Future Chair: Xingfa Gu, Christopher Lenhardt, Chuang Liu, Paul Uhlir |
C3 Biodiversity Data Management and Sharing in Africa Chair: Simeon H. Taole |
C4 Preservation and Archiving Chair: (TBC) |
C5 Earth and Environmental Data: Hazards Chair: (TBC) |
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| Scientific Data Sharing Progress and its New Features in China Wang Juanle |
The Value of Spatial Data in Understanding and Projecting Climate Change Impacts on Species and Ecosystems Guy Midgley |
Preserving scientific data in developing countries: The Birth to Twenty data curation project Alison Bullen & Lucia Lötter |
Data for “earthquake scenario damage” assessment |
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| Ocean Tracking Network Data Policy and Management Methods Robert Branton |
'Mind the Gap' - Bridging the Aquatic Biodiversity Information Chasm in Southern Africa Paul H. Skelton |
Jonkershoek – preserving 73 years of catchment monitoring data Victoria Goodall & Nicky Allsopp |
Development of China’s digital seismograph networks and the data sharing system Ruifeng Liu |
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| Role of Data for Promoting Public Understanding of Science Aladeniyi, O. B & Omolofe, B |
Discovering and Documenting South Africa's Biodiversity Michelle Hamer |
Data curation practices amongst World Data Centres Paul Laughton |
Methods development concerning data analysis, data management, and simulation for early warning of mass movements Martin Breunig |
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| SIDR-UEVE: a pilot for eliciting a French academic policy on data preservation in Life sciences Emmanuel Dequier |
Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Invasive Alien Plants in South Africa: Managing for Sustainability Brian van Wilgen |
The role of C@ribNET in the preservation of and access to scientific and technical data in developing countries. Robert Lancashire |
Automatic Data Integration and Processing on Demand for Rapid Flood Monitoring Jibo Xie |
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| US-China Roundtable Discussion Roberta Balstad |
SANBI's Biodiversity Information Policy Framework: a mechanism to facilitate free and open access to information |
Archiving in Digital Cartography and Geoinformation
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Intellectual GIS “Geoscience Data for the Territory of Russia” A.Soloviev |
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| 15:15-16:45 |
D1 Open Access Data Models: The Argument for a Polar Information Commons Chair: Robert Chen |
D2 UN GAID e-SDDC Roundtable Session: CODATA for the eMDG (Millennium Development Goals) Co Chairs: Chuang Liu, Paul Uhlir, Huadong Guo, Krishan Lal |
D3 Biodiversity Data Management and Sharing Chair: (TBC) |
D4 Earth and Environmental Data: Remote Sensing Chair: (TBC) |
D5 Young Scientist Session (1) Chair: (TBC) |
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| D1-1: | D2-1: | D3-1: | D4-1: | D5-1: | ||||||
| The Hermanus Magnetic Observatory and the IPYs: Past, Present, and Future Pierre Cilliers |
TaxoTreeComp: A solution to compare the taxonomic hierarchical trees Hui-Jie Qiao |
An application of Remote Sensing Technology on Chinese Inland Water-body research |
Usage of Expert Evaluation Methods
for Collection of Data about Social Systems Alexis Pasichny |
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| D1-2: | D2-2: | D3-2: | D4-2: | D5-2: | ||||||
| The Enduring Legacy of IPY in Canada: Sharing The Data Ellsworth LeDrew |
A solution to integration and sharing data for phylogenetic research Zhou Yuanchun |
Development of land surface phenology monitoring using time series of remote sensing data Linlin Lu |
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| Freeing data through The Polar Information Commons Taco de Bruin |
Information and Communication Technology, Social Networks and the Development of the Brazilian Biodiversity Information Infrastructure Vanderlei Canhos |
A Study on Real Time Simulation and Data Assimilation System Yang Wang |
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| D1-4: | D2-4: | D3-4: | D4-4: | D5-4: | ||||||
| The State of Polar Data Mark Parsons, Taco de Bruin |
The Biodiversity Advisor website, adding value, building capacity and merging biodiversity databases Heather Terrapon |
A Web-based data-processing system for Landsat imagery datasets Xuezhi Wang |
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| Coordination of Polar Data Management Post-IPY Scott Tomlinson |
CoL China: a checklist of biodiversity in China Liqiang Ji |
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| 16:45-17:00 |
Coffee Break/Poster Viewing | |||||||||
| 17:00-18:30 |
E1 Data Management to Support Research Integrity Chair: Mark Thorley |
E2 Scientific Data for Sustainable Development (2) Chair: (TBC) |
E3 e-Science and e-Science Networks Chair: (TBC) |
E4 Gaps in Environmental Data Records Chair: John Faundeen |
E5 Young Scientist Roundtable Discussion Chair: (TBC) |
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| Sub-Saharan Africa - Sustainability Risks Discussion Victoria A. Bakhtina |
The Construction of the National Science and Technology Infrastructure Platform and the Scientific and Technological Resource Sharing Network of China Cheng Dong |
Identifying Data Richness and Data Gaps in the 38-Year Record of Landsat Environmental Holdings John Faundeen |
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| Observational, research and training programs to build geoscience capacity in Africa Ray Durrheim |
E-science in Azerbaijan: state-of-the-art and development perspectives Alguliyev R.M., Fataliyev T.Kh. |
Global Land Survey Activities and Land Cover Analysis from Landsat Jeffrey Masek |
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| E1-3: | E2-3: | E3-3: | E4-3: | E5-3: | ||||||
| O3D - Data Kiosk – Sustainable Development Jean Pierre Caliste |
Adding Value to NASA Planetary Data Archives by Integrating Mission Data and Documents Thomas Stein |
Environmental Data Through Time – Extending The Climate Record
Stephen Del Greco |
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| E1-4: | E2-4: | E3-4: | E4-4: | E5-4: | ||||||
| Synergy of Sustainable Development Model P. Kervalishvili |
Grid Data Resources Integration and Problem Knowledge Exchange within Information Society Structures Zbigniew Kierzkowski |
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| E1-5: | E2-5: | E3-5: | E4-5: | E5-5 | ||||||
| Development of a Global Roads Open Access Data Set (gROADS) Robert Chen |
DLM: A Common Data Process Pipeline for Large Scale Scientific Dataset based on Duckling Collaboration Platform |
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| 18:30-19:30 |
CODATA Prize Award Ceremony |
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Tuesday, 26 October 2010 |
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8:30-9:30 |
Keynote Speakers Chair: Roberta Balstad Kari Raivio, Vice-President for Scientific Planning and Review, International Council of Science, ICSU Jean Bernard Minster, World Data System, International Council for Science, ICSU |
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| 9:30-10:30 |
Panel Discussion: Strategic Planning for Data and Information Issues Chair: Roberta Balstad Ray Harris, Chair, Strategic Coordinating Committee on Information and Data (SCCID) TBC, South Africa Jane Rovins, Executive Director, International Programme Office, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme, ICSU (TBC) Krishan Lal, CODATA President |
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| 10:30-11:30 | Coffee Break /Poster Madness - Session 1 | |||||||||
| 11:30-13:00 |
Parallel High Level Sessions F |
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F1 Data Publishing in the Context of the ICSU World Data System (WDS) Co-Chairs: Michael Diepenbroek and Mikhail Zgurovsky F1-2: F1-3: F1-4: F1-5: |
F2 Co-ordinating Data Standards: The Perspective of Scientific Unions Co-Chair: (TBC) F2-1: F2-2: F2-3: F2-4: |
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| 13:00-14:00 |
Lunch | |||||||||
| 14:00-15:30 |
G1 Interoperability and Ontologies Chair: (TBC) |
G2 ICSU World Data System: International Building Blocks Co-Chairs: David Clark and Luiz Horta |
G3 Linking Asia e-Infrastructure with Global Data Infrastructure Co-Chairs: Simon C. Lin and Eric Yen |
G4 Chair: Ray Norris(Brief Introduction by R.E.M. Griffin) |
G5 Data Communities and Knowledge Integration Chair: (TBC) |
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| Towards Global Data Interoperability Costantino Thanos |
Construction and Application of Thematic Database for Human-Earth System Shunbao Liao |
Global e-Science Framework in the Regional Context Simon C. Lin |
Whose Responsability is it to Maintain Data for Others to Use?Should the Individual Work for the Community or Vice Versa? William L. Anderson |
Best Practices for Collaborative Data Access and Integration Projects John Broome |
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| Interoperability of environmental data models : an approach based on correspondences between ontologies Anne-Francoise Cutting-Decelle |
The International Laser Ranging Service: Observations and Products Graham Appleby |
Distributed Computing Standards for e-Science Collaboration Eric Yen |
Preservation of Digital Data D. Schade |
Building Communities of Data Scientists: what works and what doesn’t Lesley Wyborn |
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| Metadata for Scientific Data: An Analysis Targeting Challenges and Opportunity in Our Global Information Ecology Jane Greenberg, Craig Willis and Hollie White |
Building National to Global Biological Informatics Systems: Lessons Learned, Solutions, and Successful Applications John Hill |
EUAsiaGrid - An Exemplar Initiative Marco Paganoni |
Global Oceanographic Data Archaelogy and Rescue Sydney Levitus |
A Socio-Technical Framework for Enhancing the Quality and Trust of Citizen Science Data Jane Hunter |
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| Map of Computer Science:
A Case Study of Mapping Knowledge Domain in NSFC Yufang Hou |
The Work of Center for Geophysics: from WDC to WDS Fenglin Peng |
Seismology Research and Collaboration in South East Asia Bor-Shouh Huang |
Biodiversity Needs Data: Rescuing Natural History Information Anton Guentsch |
Knowledge transfer and skills development during the transportation and movement of fish Josias Masharakane Seabi |
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| Scientific Data Access Activities and Infrastructure in China Jianhui Li, Wangping Li, Baoping Yan & Hui Zhang |
Regional Multidisciplinary Initiatives of Russian-Ukrainian Worl Data Centers Segment for Occurence in the World Data System Nataliya Sergeyeva |
Preserving and Digitizing Astronomy's 100-Year Heritage of Photographic Observations R.E.M. Griffin |
A data science community based on duckling collaboration platform Yu Lunqing and Zhang Hui |
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| 15:30-16:30 |
Coffee Break/Poster Viewing | |||||||||
| 16:30-18:00 | H1 Health and Human Wellbeing in Africa Chair: Charles Wambebe |
H2 The ICSU World Data System: a Disciplined or Un-disciplined Intitiative? Chairs: Francoise Genova and Ruth Neilan |
H3 Data Visualization and Delivery Chair: (TBC) |
H4 Data at Risk (2) Moderators: W.L. Anderson & E. Griffin |
H5 Knowledge Management of Indigenous Knowledge Systems Chair: Carol Van Wyk |
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| African Traditional Medicine and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Philippe Rasoanaivo |
Cloud Computing and Semantic Web Concepts
for ICSU World Data System Kostiantyn Yefremov |
Modeling Geological Objects in 3D An Exploration Tool for Natural Resources Appraisal Jean Jacques Royer |
Knowledge Management of IK in Practice: Management of Oral History on NAROS Brenda Kotze & Thabang Khanye |
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| Environmental Sanitation and Household Water Supply in Africa Isaac Quaye |
The Heliophysics Data Environment, Virtual Observatories, NSSDC, and SPASE James Thieman |
Chemistry in an immersive virtual environment |
Best Practices and Lessons Learnt Dr Matsabisa |
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| Food Security in Africa Sunita Facknath |
A South African Platform for Data Systems: the World Data Centre for Biodiversity and Human Health as a Case Study Wim Hugo |
E-Commerce through Mobile Technology: Global Orientedness Nafta Mokate Lehobye |
Developing Community Databases - Community Networking Javu Present |
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| Food Safety and Quality Nutrition in Africa Joyce Kinabo |
The contribution of a Geophysical Data Service: the International Service of Geomagnetic Indices Michel Menvielle |
Developing Community Databases, Best Practices and Lessons Learnt Rensie Van Rensburg |
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| Improving the Collection of Data on Social Science and Humanities. Experiences from the South Michael Kahn |
OneGeology – Improving Access to Geoscience Information on a Global Scale John Broome |
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| Lessons learnt from building the astronomical Virtual Observatory Francoise Genova |
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| 19:00 |
Conference Banquet |
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Wednesday, 27 October 2010 |
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8:30-10:00 |
High Level Session |
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| 10:00-11:00 |
Coffee Break /Poster Madness - Session 2 | |||||||||
| 11:00-12:30 |
I1 Data Systems for Resource Management Chair: (TBC) |
I2 Global Environmental Change Chair: Jonathan I. Matondo |
I3 Data Center Infrastructure and Technology Chair: (TBC) |
I4 Advanced Data Mining and Management Chair: Sarah Graves, (TBD) |
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| Role of Data in Improved and Sustainable Food and Agricultural Productivity in Africa Sunita Facknath |
The Impact of Land Degradation and Biodiversity Loss on Human Wellbeing in Africa Abdelkader Allali |
Integrating Solid State Disks in Storage Resource Management of Scientific Data E. J. Otoo |
The Utilization of Slope Grid for Geosensor Data Abstraction Young Jin Jung |
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| D4Science:
An e-Infrastructure for Facilitating Fisheries and Aquaculture Resource Management Donatella Castelli |
Impact of Climate Change on Rainfall and Water Resources in Africa Joseph K. Kanyanga |
Managing and Publishing Relational Database via VisualDB Zhihong Shen |
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| Introducing electronic data logging to the South African and International commercial fishing industry: Amos Barkai |
Air Pollution and Health Impact in Urban Areas in Africa Abdourahamane Konare |
Development of Resource Control Algorithm for Green Supercomputing Young Joo Lee |
Data mining techniques to study research aptitude of medical students in India Meera Singh |
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| Transgenic animal bio-safety traceability platform design Zhi-hong Pang |
Africa's Oceanographic Uniqueness Regina Folorunsho |
Data center resource and load management Sergii Telenyk |
Development of Efficient Experimental Database System
for Steel Manufacturing Industries Jonghyun Lee |
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| Integration and Sharing Service of Animal and Veterinary Sciences in China Ben-hai Xiong |
Impacts of Global Warming on Future Climate in Nigeria LAWAL Kamoru Abiodun |
Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) Based Modeling for Landslides Susceptibility Zonation in a Part of Himalayas Using Satellite Data Levi I. Mwankwo & Prashnant K. Champati-ray |
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| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch | |||||||||
| 13:30-15:00 | J1 Biological and Health Data Chair: (TBC) |
J2 Taiwan Integrated Earth Observation Systems Chair: Chih-Hong Sun |
J3 Data Management Practices and Plans Chair: Elisha Chiware (IATUL) |
J4 Continental and Regional Environmental Data Management in the Oil Industry Chair: Moses Mensah |
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| Web-assisted Dietary Assessment System to Meet Individual Nutritional Needs for the Taiwanese Ning Sing Shaw |
TIEOS in Taiwan and Beyond Guey-Shin Chang |
Findings of a Survey of Research Data Management Practices at the University of Pretoria, South Africa Heila Pienaar |
Regional Preparedness for Effective Oil Spill Response and Remediation - Environmental Sensitivity Mapping and Challenges of Environmental Degradation Moses Mensah | |||||||
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| The contributions of data banks to the study of childhood development Franco Lepore |
The FORMOSAT Data Used in Earth Observation Bo Chen & Chu Vicky |
Data management activities of Canada’s National Science Library – 2010 update and prospective Mary Zborowski |
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| Databases for Structural Biologists K. Sekar |
Sensor Web Enablement for Debris Flow Monitoring System in Taiwan Tien-Yin Chou, Yao-Min Fang & Lan-Kun Chung |
Knowledge management of biomedical research data Sri S.K. Dey Biswas |
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| Development of an Integrated Database of Completely Sequenced Plastids and Cyanobacteria Genomes Takashi Kunisawa |
Intelligent Spatial Decision Support System Platform
For Sustainable Development Chih-Hong Sun , Chin-Te Jung & Hsueh-Hua Chen |
Theory to practice: Short phrase, long process! Martie van Deventer |
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| Predicting Breast Cancer Using Combined K-fold Cross-validated Decision Tree Models Mohamed Salem & Kassim Mwitondi |
Development of near Real-Time, High-Resolution, Global Earth Observation 3D Platform for Disaster Monitoring and Assessment Whey-Fone Tsai, Fang-Pang Lin, Jo-Yu Chang, Bo Chen, Morris Sun & Franz Cheng |
Regional Environmental Monitoring Centres and regional networks Johnny Ayer & Moses Mensah |
15:00-16:00 | Closing Ceremony |
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