Activity Report from International Strategic Advisor in 2023
Prof. Juanle Wang
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,
Chinese Academy of Sciences

1. Observation(1) The open science data governance and practices are shared in different regions in A-O,
such as China, Malysia, Australia, and some science programmes, like GEOCRI for GEO
Cold Regions Initiate. More challenges and opportunities for international collaborative
data management are proposed.
(2) For data systems and networks, more experiments are shared by AuScope Virtual
Research Environment in Australia, DataON from Korea, SDRA and NASSDA, Polar datadiscovery portal, and BigFlow framework from Chinese Academy of Sciences.
(3) FAIR principles progresses are exchanged coving PIDs and Global Open Identifier,Indonesia’s progress, IRINS in India, and open science policy in Japan.
(4) Data Science are promoted in different fields, such as geoscience for glacial landforms,
climate change with pollutant retrieving and methane emission from cattle, spacescience in NSSDC, and scientific data linking and integration.
(5) A-O data forum covered more data centers inside World Data System or outside, likeIndian geomagnetism data center, Indonesia national scientific repository, nation spacescience center and global microbiology data center in China, and open government
data in Bangladesh, and so on.
2. Consideration
The Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research (ROIS-DS) is part of ROIS and focus on
supporting researchers with data driven research. As data is the basis for data driven research, soenhance the data repository development and the big data management is still the fundamentalwork.
(6) World Data System has massive data storage in different disciplinaries, such as in Geo
Science, Space Science, Biological Science, Life Science, Agriculture Science, AstronomyScience, Ocean Science, etc. This biennial meeting in A-O regions is helpful for involving
more data centers work together and support data driven research.
(7) Encourage more repositories in A-O regions, and let them go close to WDS (IPO/ITO),
with support from WDS local communities/SC members/regular members in A-Oregion.
(8) Find more cooperation fields related with data driven research, such as polar regions(including Tibetan Plateau), Life sciences (including animal, plant, and microorganism),
Earth Science (including atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, pedosphere, biosphere,lithosphere, and Anthroposphere), et al.
3. Recommendation for ROIS-DS(9) Organized or supported by ROIS-DS, continually enhance the data network in A-O
regions, organize more webinar, training, workshop, seminar for field application andtechnology exchange with open data and data science.
(10) Strengthen the cooperation with nine data centers of WDS in mainland China, including
WDS renewable resources and environmental data center, WDS global change scientificresearch data publishing system, WDS China space science data center, WDS cold dry
area science data center, WDS world microbiological data center, WDS ocean datacenter (Tianjin), WDS China astronomical data center, WDS geophysical scientific datacenter (Beijing), Geoscientific Data & Discovery Publishing System.
(11) Strengthen the cooperation with more international programmes or cooperation
platform, such as the Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service of International
Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology under the Auspices ofUNESCO (IKCEST-DRR), the Deep-time Digital Earth big data programme lunched byIUGS, et al.
(12) Some potential cooperation fields for ROIS and others maybe disaster risk reduction,
Polar study (including Tibetan Plateau), COVID-19 and healthy study, Geoscience datasharing, and Large Language Models.
(13) Recommend benchmark Institutions include WDS ITO, IGSNRR-CAS, and IKCEST-DRR in
UNESCO. WDS ITO is affiliated to WDS in Canada, University of Victoria. It can provide
repository interoperability technology support for ROIS in the near future. IGSNRR-CAS
is the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy ofSciences. This institute host the WDS-China centers portal, it is a hub for connection theWDS centers in China. Prof. Juanle Wang is a right person for connection, and he also isthe director of the World Data Center for Renewable Resources and Environment. Lastlyis IKCEST-DRR, it is named the Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service (DRRKS) ofInternational Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (IKCEST)
under the Auspices of UNESCO. IKCEST-DRR platform (drr.ikcest.org) has been
recommend by UNESCO as a demonstrate platform for Open Science in UNESCO’s
website. It is a good platform for connection and exchange more about open science.