Notes from a GCamp brainstorming session on "How to encourage and enable data sharing between organizations?" (Corner One - 13:00-14:00, Day 2) Revised and extended from an original version at GCamp@RUPP 2009 website. Thanks all the session participants for their insights and sharings :)
Aspects, considerations, and issues in data sharing:
- Politics: policy, inter- and intra-organization conflicts of interest on data sharing, sensitive data, panic, national security, law & regulations, econo-political accessibility
- Standards: information standards, common terminology/vocaburary/ontology, different survey methodologies, interpretation of data, difficulities in merging/fusing data from different sources (with different data definition), machine-readability, technological accessibility
- Technology: text recognition, OCR, information structure recognition, the use of un- or semi-structured information
- Information Life Cycle: spatial and temporal aspects of information, expiry date/best used by
Terms and projects mentioned in, or related to, the session:
- ProMED-mail - global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins
- Opening and linking the data available on the Web
- Community annotation, making use of un- and semi-structured data
- Semantic Wikipedia - an idea for semantic-annotated Wikipedia
- Semantic MediaWiki - an extension of MediaWiki, adds semantic annotations to the wiki
- DBPedia - extract structured information from Wikipedia to RDFs (Linked Data)
- Making use of non-textual/non-electronic (yet) data
- tesseract-ocr - an open source OCR engine
- OCRopus - an open source text layout analytic engine
- Data collection and terminology
- International Household Survey Network (IHSN)
- WHO Global Health Observatory
- WHO Global Observatory for eHealth (GOe)
- WHO International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
- Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED)
- International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation - an organization who drives SNOMED CT (a SNOMED-systematically organized computer processable collection of medical terminology)
- FAO Terminology - common terminology, in various languages, used by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- more on Twitter, hashtag #gcamp
- a related case - Data.gov
- a related idea on ideas.in.th, proposes all public-funded organizations to open their data - หน่วยงานสาธารณะ ต้องเปิดเผยข้อมูลทั้งหมดสู่สาธารณะ ในรูปแบบที่สาธารณะเข้าถึงได้
