[U-06] Open and FAIR Science: strategies,infrastructures, practices and communities

[U06-P01] International Collaboration to Build an Open-Data Network in Asia-Oceania Area

★Invited Papers

*Takashi Watanabe¹ (1.Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

Keywords:Open Data, World Data System, Asia-Oceania

This project aims to reinforce the data-oriented activities of research-data repositories in Asia-Oceania (A-O) as a regional program of the World Data System (WDS) of the International Science Council (ISC) to build an Open-Data-oriented group (WDS Asia-Oceania Network). The WDS National Committee of the Science Council of Japan initiated this effort since the hosting interval of WDS-IPO by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (2011-2021). Our principal activities are to establish a community of data repositories interested in the endeavor of WDS and to identify problems to bottom-up the level of data management, including long-term preservation and provision of quality-assessed, particularly in Southeast Asian countries. We will have an international meeting “WDS Asia-Oceania Conference 2025 - Developing a New Frontier of Open-Data” in Beijing, China, in September 2025 to discuss the implementation of our plan: (1) Encourage repositories in A-O regions to go close to WDS, with support from WDS local communities, SC members, and WDS members in the A-O region, (2) Involve more regional, disciplinary, and governmental Open-Data activities in the A-O region to reinforce their global connectivity, (3) Supporting young researchers who will lead the future of science in A-O is essential for the field's growth. Since human resource development takes time, it is important to continue the activities perseveringly, (4) Continually enhance the data network in A-O regions by organizing webinars, training, and workshops to introduce appropriate common tools for interdisciplinary management and provision of data, (5) Build collaborative relationships with the ISC's Regional Focal Point for Asia and the Pacific, the Science Council of Asia, and other international academic communities in A-O, and (6) Pursue a way to get support for our activities to establish our data-network infrastructure in A-O.