<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Kathleen, COAR et al,<div>thanks so much.</div><div><br></div><div>Indeed, </div><div>Asia is a place to focus on for such data and OA things for sure,</div><div>and I see a lot about it in Asia and for showcases made there</div><div>(in the typical sense we experience there a lot, </div><div>making it big, looking clean and impressive, keep face).</div><div><br></div><div>Anyways,</div><div>along the same lines, I see vast amounts of </div><div>nonsense online when it comes to OA Data, and many things are either</div><div>misleading or utterly irrelevant even, or carry no science value for us to use.</div><div>Many projects are specifically set up that way, lack substance.</div><div>Often they are not even in English, or not geo-referenced, lack metadata, or have their own</div><div>GIS standards even (I saw those latter things in S. Korea for instance).</div><div><br></div><div>So before so much money is wasted,</div><div>I am asking here to have/include a THOROUGH SCIENCE REVIEW </div><div>in such efforts first, for Asia, its OA Data and beyond,</div><div>to see whether those data and efforts can actually be used,</div><div>and how, and whether those projects</div><div>and showcases are FIT FOR USE, globally, and how those can be improved.</div><div>To be serious, why not following GBIF.org and its template anyways ?</div><div><br></div><div>Is the claimed progress really progress, and progress what for, and for whom ?</div><div><br></div><div>What technical and metadata standards are met, and how ?</div><div><br></div><div>There are endless examples where one can apply it,</div><div>for instance with the Antarctic Treaty of the Asian member states,</div><div>IUCN, IPCC, FAIR partners, FOIA, disease centers and libraries, publishing houses,</div><div>and certainly in ISO industries, with finance, and how about the Basel Accord,</div><div>as an update ?. SDVG s are a no-brainer on those.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again for those considerations and edits, happy to learn about</div><div>the progress.</div><div><br></div><div>If wanted, I can happily share a good list of publications and books that deal with Open Access,</div><div>or lack there of, for Asia and its institutions and leads.</div><div><br></div><div>More then; very best</div><div><br></div><div> Falk Huettmann PhD, Professor</div><div> Uni of Alaska Fairbanks </div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 11:21 AM Iryna Kuchma <<a href="mailto:iryna.kuchma@eifl.net" target="_blank">iryna.kuchma@eifl.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">[Forwarded message from <span class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Kathleen Shearer</span> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com" target="_blank">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a>>] </span><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div><span style="font-style:normal;font-size:15px">Dear colleagues (please excuse the cross posting</span><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-style:normal">),</span></span><div><span style="font-style:normal;font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-style:normal;font-size:15px">Open access and open science are global trends, but we tend to hear most about what is happening in Europe and North America.</span></div><div><span style="font-style:normal;font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:15px">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. </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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. P</span><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">revious meetings were held in Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Kathmandu, and Dhaka, Bangladesh. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-style:normal;font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px">The Asia OA meeting is hosted this year by the </span><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This meeting,</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> which is normally attended by delegates from different Asian communities, is</span><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"> taking place online this year and is therefore open to everyone.</span></div><div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:normal;font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-style:normal;font-size:15px">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. </span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">For more information, please visit the meeting website: </span><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F2020korea.asiaoa.org%2F&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C5f9aa9a730144d24a96008d855012e95%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=y7In80uKl9vZ%2B2iW7cdpqwSmIg%2FEegZ4Zjgr5J2MWgE%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://2020korea.asiaoa.org/" shash="r2yj8o7iQjG+H5+4kMMptQ1rWbb1GOmGbY1mNcLHWyYse9wMmbOl1yqNEAoV4WrspYsV7uxeP4XV62M4qbUv+VF7BqcOY20NzElso0rLIZwbWPMuiPp02im3aCeH7mA2LGKm8wpwIKfIUMeUMQpY0LSmwzRW+/1xh77Lo7cr52k=" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:gulim,굴림,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:700;color:rgb(0,0,0)" target="_blank">https://2020korea.asiaoa.org</a></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px">Best, Kathleen</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><div>
<div><span style="font-size:15px">Kathleen Shearer</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px">Executive Director</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px">Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coar-repositories.org%2F&data=01%7C01%7Cboai-forum%40ecs.soton.ac.uk%7C5f9aa9a730144d24a96008d855012e95%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0&sdata=FyokYNAhmpSRxDx4ffw8fnFdl%2BxEo0X38VdL51efXCY%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="http://www.coar-repositories.org/" shash="toFuBlV4eN1Pft+zg1noNc2xzcHqj3w6TOCKE/oiPxJF617WgzWsyxdBmhOPBlIY9UMB1BXMQIxc0lTAJNt4x2QOXGh561ub1mYebAUFHolG/xWpjoBH4+a4empora0L5yTYG3xD3ZE5s3UpgPKHg2XMWraAJ0cOQAXHzFMIMI8=" target="_blank">www.coar-repositories.org</a></span></div></div></div></div>
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