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Integrating Data Across the Globe

As each nation opens their data, and as new nations look at joining the open data community, the idea of how data sharing can bridge nations comes to play.  The emergence of standards, data sharing policies, common use, attribution and copyright--all of these vary by country, region, or in some cases, don't exist.

What are some of the big issues we need to start working toward?  Do you have examples where things have worked in other data sharing areas?

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Global Data Integration

 

Well said 

Great example. Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of these data.This process becomes significant in a variety of situations, which include both commercial (when two similar companies need to merge their databases) and scientific (combining research results from different bioinformatics repositories, for example) domains.Education Universities Data integration appears with increasing frequency as the volume and the need to share existing data explodes. It has become the focus of extensive theoretical work, and numerous open problems remain unsolved. In management circles, people frequently refer to data integration as 

Federated search, which

Federated search, which powers WorldWideScience.org, was mentioned by Marion Royal on the closing day of the International Open Government Data Conference as a technology that the Data.gov team was exploring.  WorldWideScience.org exemplifies the power and agility of a federated approach.

International Science Collaboration

Jeanne, I think WorldWideScience.org is an excellent example of international data sharing that works.  WorldWideScience.org, managed through a multilateral partnership, enables single-query search of national scientific databases and portals in approximately 70 countries.  These countries represent over three-quarters of the world’s population.

Federated search, which powers WorldWideScience.org, was mentioned by Marion Royal on the closing day of the International Open Government Data Conference as a technology that the Data.gov team was exploring.  WorldWideScience.org exemplifies the power and agility of a federated approach.

In June of this year WorldWideScience.org deployed Multilingual Search.  Now patrons can search across the information resources of WorldWideScience.org in nine different languages.  The results of this search are then translated into their preferred language for display.  This initial deployment of Multilingual Search supports Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.  I think this feature is very exciting and certainly takes international data sharing to another level.

 

EPA examples

Great example.  There are lots of good ideas about the policies people have put in place across the globe.  Some of these are summarized in the final IOGDC panel at http://www.data.gov/conference/agenda

EPA's Collaboration and Outreach

Steve Young: EPA's Open Government Flagship Initiative lead the way for data sharing and usage.  He mentioned Reagan's response to the Bhopal incident. The President wanted an inventory of Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). So sometimes a natural disaster presses these initiatives.

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