[BOAI] Open access and open science in Asia

Wed Sep 9 21:44:20 BST 2020

Dear Kathleen, COAR et al,
thanks so much.

Indeed,
Asia is a place to focus on for such data and OA things for sure,
and I see a lot about it in Asia and for showcases made there
(in the typical sense we experience there a lot,
making it big, looking clean and impressive, keep face).

Anyways,
along the same lines, I see vast amounts of
nonsense online when it comes to OA Data, and many things are either
misleading or utterly irrelevant even, or carry no science value for us to
use.
Many projects are specifically set up that way, lack substance.
Often they are not even in English, or not geo-referenced, lack metadata,
or have their own
GIS standards even (I saw those latter things in S. Korea for instance).

So before so much money is wasted,
I am asking here to have/include a THOROUGH SCIENCE REVIEW
in such efforts first, for Asia, its OA Data and beyond,
to see whether those data and efforts can actually be used,
and how, and whether those projects
and showcases are FIT FOR USE, globally, and how those can be improved.
To be serious, why not following GBIF.org and its template anyways ?

Is the claimed progress really progress, and progress what for, and for
whom ?

What  technical and metadata standards are met, and how ?

There are endless examples where one can apply it,
for instance with the Antarctic Treaty of the Asian member states,
IUCN, IPCC, FAIR partners, FOIA, disease centers and libraries, publishing
houses,
and certainly in ISO industries, with finance, and how about the Basel
Accord,
as an update ?. SDVG s are a no-brainer on those.

Thanks again for those considerations and edits, happy to learn about
the progress.

If wanted, I can happily share a good list of publications and books that
deal with Open Access,
or lack there of, for Asia and its institutions and leads.

More then; very best

    Falk Huettmann PhD, Professor
      Uni of Alaska Fairbanks

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 11:21 AM Iryna Kuchma <iryna.kuchma at eifl.net> wrote:

> [Forwarded message from Kathleen Shearer <m.kathleen.shearer at gmail.com>]
>
> Dear colleagues (please excuse the cross posting),
>
> Open access and open science are global trends, but we tend to hear most
> about what is happening in Europe and North America.
>
> Asia is rapidly increasing in prominence on the world stage, both in terms
> of R&D as well as scientific production. According to UNESCO, in 2015, the
> Asia region encompassed close to half of global expenditure on research and
> development (R&D, 42%) and for research outputs, Asia has been extremely
> prolific and growing quickly, with China leading the world in numbers of
> published research articles. But Asia is also a very diverse continent,
> representing many different languages and cultures and this diversity must
> be reflected in the way open science is implemented. International
> alignment, common standards and interoperability must be balanced with
> local priorities, needs and requirements.
>
> At COAR, we believe it is important to have venues and opportunities that
> allow participants to focus on issues of local importance in their own
> region. Asia OA is a community hosted by COAR with the aim of supporting
> information sharing about open science policies and practices across the
> Asian continent. On a biannual basis, COAR along with a different local
> host, organizes an Asia OA meeting. Previous meetings were held in Tokyo,
> Kuala Lumpur, Kathmandu, and Dhaka, Bangladesh.
>
> The Asia OA meeting is hosted this year by the Korea Institute of Science
> And Technology Information, KISTI and offers participants the opportunity
> to learn more about what is happening in Asia related to open access and
> open science. This meeting, which is normally attended by delegates from
> different Asian communities, is taking place online this year and is
> therefore open to everyone.
>
> The meeting began today (September 9 - 16, 2020), and offers a mix of
> prerecorded presentations, live panels, and a session with country reports
> from 14 different jurisdictions.
>
> For more information, please visit the meeting website:
> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F2020korea.asiaoa.org%2F&amp;data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C5f9aa9a730144d24a96008d855012e95%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&amp;sdata=y7In80uKl9vZ%2B2iW7cdpqwSmIg%2FEegZ4Zjgr5J2MWgE%3D&amp;reserved=0
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>
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