PROGRAMMEInternational Symposium“Global Collaboration on Data beyond Disciplines”
23 – 25 September 2020
Online Conference

Wednesday 23 September 2020

Opening Session (05:00-08:00 UTC)
Conveners: *Masaki Kanao, Yasuhiro Murayama, Takashi Watanabe, Rorie Edmunds
05:00–05:20 Opening Addresses (Chair: Masaki Kanao)••

Asao Fujiyama (Director-General, Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research (DS), ROIS) (10’)
Masaki Kanao (LOC Chair), outline of symposium & practical information (10’)

05:20–06:35 Keynote Talks (Chair: Takashi Watanabe)
Keynote 1: Past, present and future of global data collaboration
Mark A. Parsons (Editor-in-Chief, Data Science Journal) (25’)
Keynote 2: Open Science for Asia and the Pacific
Mazlan Othman (Regional Office of Asia and Pacific, International Science Council) (25’)
Keynote 3: Do we all need to become data scientists?
Jens Klump (Mineral Resources, CSIRO in Australia) (25’)
06:35–06:45 Group Photo @ Zoom Screen & Coffee Break
06:45–08:00 10 Years Event of the International Programme Office of the World Data System (WDS-IPO)(Chair: Yasuhiro Murayama; each talk is allocated for 5’-10’)•••

Hideyuki Tokuda (President, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT))
Ryoichi Fujii (President, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS))
Kazuhiko Takeuchi (Vice President, Science Council of Japan)•••

Daya Reddy (President, International Science Council)
Alexander de Sherbinin (Chair, Scientific Committee of World Data System)
Elaine Faustman (Vice Chair, Scientific Committee of World Data System)••

Chieh-Chih Estelle Cheng (Manager APAC Engagement, ORCID)
Rorie Edmunds (International Program Office, World Data System)•Discussion

Wednesday 23 September 2020

WDS Members’ Forum 2020 (12:00-15:00 UTC)
Conveners: * Rorie Edmunds, WDS-SC, WDS-IPO, WDS-ITO
12:00–13:30 Scientific Session – Member Lightning Talks(Chairs: Alex de Sherbinin, Rorie Edmunds)
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Welcome & Introduction (5’)
Alex de Sherbinin (Chair, WDS-SC), Rorie Edmunds (Executive Director, WDS)
Panel Discussion 1: FAIR Data and Interoperability (15’)
Marc Nyssen (Moderator)
Nick Thieberger (PARADISEC)
Wendy Gross (World Data Service for Paleoclimatology)
Michael Diepenbroek (PANGEA – Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science)
Panel Discussion 2: Automation, Scalability, and Cloud Use (20’)
Aminata Garba (Moderator)
Jeanne Behnke(NASA-ESDIS Project)
Martina Stockause (DKRZ – WDC Climate)
Jerry Carter (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology)
Andrii Shelestov (Ukrainian Geospatial Data Center)
Panel Discussion 3: Sustainability: Making the case for domain repositories through value ofinformation, operational use, & web services (20’)
Robert Chen (Moderator)
Mamoru Ishii (WDC – Ionosphere and Space Weather)
Adam Shepherd (Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office)Doug Schuster (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Frederic Clette (WDC – Sunspot Index and Long-term Solar Observations)
Breakout Discussions (20’)
Karen Payne, David Castle, Loana Popescu (Moderators)
Wrap-up of Scientific Session (5’)
Alex de Sherbinin (Chair, WDS-SC)

13:30–13:50 Coffee Break
13:50–15:00 Plenary Session – Community Consultation(Chairs: Alex de Sherbinin, Rorie Edmunds)●●●●

Welcome & Introduction (5’)
Alex de Sherbinin (Chair, WDS-SC), Rorie Edmunds (Executive Director, WDS)
WDS-ITO Activities (+ Discussion)
Karen Payne (Associate Director, WDS-ITO) (15’)
Data Together: WDS & Member Involvement (+ Discussion)
Ingrid Dillo (Vice Chair, WDS-SC) (15’)
Candidate Membership & Mentoring (+ Discussion)
Wim Hugo (Director of Strategy, WDS) (15’)

●●Domain vs Generalist Repositories (+ Discussion)
Alex de Sherbinin (Chair, WDS-SC) (15’)
Wrap-up of Plenary Session
Alex de Sherbinin (Chair, WDS-SC) (5’)

Thursday 24 September 2020

Regional Activities on Data in the Asia & Oceania Area (01:00-03:30 UTC)
Conveners: *Toshihiko Iyemori, Mazlan Othman, Juanle Wang, Takashi Watanabe
01:00–03:30 Regional Activities on Data in the A & O Area
(Chairs: Mazlan Othman, Toshihiko Iyemori)• National Cross-Domain Activities on Research Data in Australia and Connections with InternationalActivities (Invited)
Lesley Wyborn (Australian National University) (20’)• WDS-led Activities on Data in the Asia-Oceania Area
Takashi Watanabe (International Program Office, World Data System) (15’)• Open Science and its Policy towards Open Science Paradigm
Kazuhiro Hayashi (National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) (15’)•

General-purpose research-data management service for international research collaboration (Invited)
Yusuke Komiyama (National Institute of Informatics) (20’)
Coffee break (10')•••

Scientific Data Standard System Construction and its Application for Data Archiving in China
Juanle Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) (15’)
Collection, Archive and Sharing Space Weather information in NICT
Mamoru Ishii (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) (15’)
Making historical data Re-useable: a case study of the challenges and success of Bangladesh Bureau of
Statistic’s historical data conversion project
Chandra Shekhar Roy (Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics) (15’)•Data Stewardship: Indian Perspective (Invited)
Devika Madalli (Indian Statistical Institute) (20’)•Discussion / Summary

Thursday 24 September 2020

WDS – ORCID Strategic Workshop: Adoption of PIDs in Asia-Oceania(05:00-08:00 UTC)
Conveners: *Chieh-Chih Estelle Cheng, David Castle, Rorie Edmunds, Aminata Garba,
Masao Mori, Karen Payne, Hideaki Takeda

05:00–06:20 Part 1 – PIDs: A Vital Component of Global Research Data Infrastructure(Chairs: Rorie Edmunds, Estelle Cheng)•Introduction by Chairs (5’)•

Adopting Persistent Identifiers in Open Research Infrastructure: ORCID and beyond
Chieh-Chih Estelle Cheng (ORCID, APAC Engagement Manager) (20’)
Japanese DOI RA, Japan Link Center (JaLC) and its collaboration with ORCID
Masashi Hara (Japan Science and Technology Agency) (20’)
The IGSN Global Sample Number - A PID for Physical Objects
Jens Klump (Mineral Resources, CSIRO in Australia) (20’)•••Discussion & Wrap Up (15’)

06:20–06:40 Coffee Break
06:40–08:00 Part 2 – Practical Use Cases: From National PID Systems to Sector Applications(Chairs: Rorie Edmunds, Estelle Cheng)•Introduction by Chairs (5’)●The roles of PIDs in Scientific Data Management in China
Xiaoyan Hu (National Space Science Center, CAS, Space Science Big Data TechnologyLaboratory) (15’)●Korea Research Data Management Platform and PID
Sa-kwang Song (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) (15’)
DataCite Commons – A new service to explore the PID Graph
Martin Fenner (DataCite, Germany) (15’)●●The Power of PIDs at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Ian Bruno (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre) (15’)•Discussion & Wrap Up (15’)

Thursday 24 September 202

Sharing of the COVID-19 Data (10:00-16:00 UTC)
Conveners: *Elaine Faustman, Marc Nyssen, Masaki Kanao,
Tadahiko Maeda, Tomoya Baba, Mari Minowa
10:00–12:00 Sharing of the COVID-19 Data - 1(Chair: Tomoya Baba, Tadahiko Maeda)
Keynote 1: Open Access and Data Sharing of Nucleotide Sequence Data
Masanori Arita (National Institute of Genetics) (25’)• Time-series analysis of directional sequence changes in SARS-CoV-2 genomes and an unsupervised•••

explainable AI for studying corona virus genomes
Toshimichi Ikemura (Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and technology) (20’)
Susceptibility to COVID-19 infection: Insights from mathematical modelling
Ryosuke Omori (Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University) (20’)
Wastewater-based epidemiology for COVID-19: Perspectives for environmental surveillance of SARSCoV-2 in wastewater
Ryo Honda (Faculty of Geosciences and Civil Engineering, Kanazawa University) (20’)
Spatial analysis of COVID-19 spread using compositionally-warped Gaussian processDaisuke Murakami (Center for Data Assimilation Research and Applications, DS, ROIS) (20’)•(Discussion)•Coffee Break

12:00–14:00 Sharing of the COVID-19 Data - 2(Chair: Marc Nyssen, Mari Minowa)
Keynote 2: Sharing data for a coordinated response during COVID-19 pandemic
Priyanka Pillai (Research Data Stewardship and Health Informatics) (25’)• Sharing literature annotation regarding COVID-19 through PubAnnotation
Jin-Dong Kim (Database Center for Life Science, DS, ROIS) (20’)• COVID-19 Data and Knowledge HubLiu Chuang (Global Change Research Data Publishing & Repository and GCdataPR -WDS) (20’)• COVID-19 Data Sharing Initiative by WDCM and NMDC
Linhuan Wu (Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (20’)• Machine Learning based Peptide Therapeutics for Covid-19
Shailza Singh (National Center for Cell Science, India) (20’)•(Discussion)•Coffee Break

14:00–16:00 Sharing of the COVID-19 Data - 3(Chair: Elaine Faustman, Masaki Kanao)
Keynote 3: Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals Amidst COVID-19
Through Big Data, Deep Learning and Interdisciplinarity
Kassim S. Mwitondi (Sheffield Hallam University) (25’)• The RDA Community Response to COVID-19
Mark Leggott (Research Data Canada) (20’)• VODAN-in-a-box: a FAIR toolkit for improving reusability of COVID-related data
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos (GO FAIR International Supportingand Coordination Office) (20’)• Detailed Methodology and Application Guidelines for “The Global Covid-19 Index (GCI)”
Woody Ang Woo Teck (PEMANDU Associates, Malaysia) (20’)• Leveraging open data towards containing COVID-19
Obwaya Mogire (South Eastern Kenya University) (20’)•Discussion

Friday 25 September 2020

Forum of Early Career Data Scientists in the Asia & Oceania Area (01:00-03:30 UTC)
Conveners: *Akira Kadokura, WDS ECR Network members,Juanle Wang, Yoshimasa Tanaka, Takashi Watanabe
01:00–03:30 Forum on Early Career Data Scientists in the A & O Area
(Chairs: Jesse Xiao, Akira Kadokura)•••••••••••

Introduction for WDS ECR Network (Invited)
Lianchong Zhang, Jesse Xiao (The University of Hong Kong, WDS ECR Network) (15’)
Information platform promoting global collaboration in microbial community (Invited)
Linhuan Wu (Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (15’)
Disaster Rapid Damage Mapping with Remote Sensing: benchmarking datasets and methods (Invited)
Junshi Xia (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)) (15’)
Introduction of FUXI Platform -Global Integrated Observation Data Management and Service System(Invited)
Yuanyuan Wang (Zhejiang University) (15’)
Activities toward Open Data and Research Data Management at NIES/CGER (Invited)
Yoko Fukuda (National Institute for Environmental Studies) (15’)
Standardization of biological sample information database (Invited)
Tazro Ohta (Database Center for Life Science, DS, ROIS) (15’)
Official Micro Data, Causal Inference and Evidence-Based Policy Making (Invited)
Junchao Zhang (Center for Social Data Structuring, DS, ROIS) (15’)
Recent Achievements of Deep Learning on Recognition of Modern Japanese Magazines (Invited)
Anh Duc Le (Center for Open Data in the Humanities, DS, ROIS) (15’)
A data-scientific approach toward understanding of the goldfish genome and morphological diversity(Invited)
Tetsuo Kon (Nagahama Institute of Bioscience and Technology) (15’)
Modelling the Suitability of Parcel Pick-up Lockers Using the Multi-Source Open Data (Invited)
Zilai Zheng (Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba) (15’)
Discussion

Friday 25 September 2020

Promotion of Multi-Disciplinary Data Analysis,
Conclusive Adresses (05:00-08:30 UTC)
Conveners: *Takashi Watanabe, Asanobu Kitamoto, Masahito Nose, Ryuho Kataoka
05:00–06:30 Promotion of Multi-Disciplinary Data Analysis - 1(Chair: Takashi Watanabe, Asanobu Kitamoto)••

Introduction of the Session
Takashi Watanabe (International Program Office, World Data System) (5’)
Developing Open-Source Data Analytics and Tools to Address Interdisciplinary Issues in Political Science,
Human Geography, and Environmental Science
Joshua Brinks (iSciences, Limited Liability Company, Burlington) (20’)

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Implementation of OA/FAIR Principles in Six Years - A Case Study of Global Change Research Data
Publishing & Repository
Liu Chuang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) (20’)
Data analysis and intelligent application in modern agricultural technology extension
Ying Deng (National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture,China) (20’)
A Comparison between Logistic Regression and Decision Tree Methods for Predicting the Pre-term BirthRakesh Kumar Saroj (SRM University Sikkim-Gangtok, India) (20’)
Coffee Break

06:30–08:00 Promotion of Multi-Disciplinary Data Analysis – 2(Chair: Takashi Watanabe, Asanobu Kitamoto)
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Importance of a Multi-disciplinary Study of Peculiar Environmental and Socio-economic Movements in
18/19 Century
Takashi Watanabe (International Program Office, World Data System) (20’)
A unique website JCDP that aims to disseminate scientific information on historical climate data
Takehiko Mikami (Tokyo Metropolitan University) (20’)
Historical records of red auroras in Japan: Collaboration between literature and science
Ryuho Kataoka (National Institute of Polar Research) (20’)
Research Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Data Challenges and Solutions in the Environmental and Ecosocial Sciences
Alison Specht (the University of Queensland, Australia) (20’)
Discussion

08:00–08:30 Conclusive Addresses (Chair: Masaki Kanao; each talk is allocated for 5’-10’)•••

Yasuhiro Murayama (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT))
Myung-seok Choi (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI))
Masaki Kanao (LOC Chair), summary of symposium & conference proceeding

Extended Abstract only @ conference web-site
Extended Abstracts will be included in the conference “Programme and Abstracts” online booklet.
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EA-1: Application of machine learning techniques to weather forecasting
V. Sakthivel Samy (National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, India)
EA-2: Analyzing the early 19th century's geomagnetic declination in Japanese archipelago fromTadataka Inoh's 67 volumes magnetic survey azimuth ledger Santou-Houi-Ki by Interdisciplinary study
Motohiro Tsujimoto (no affiliation)
EA-3: Data and metadata sharing among Asian countriesMasaki Kanao (Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, ROIS)