Building New Tools for Data Sharing and Re-use through a Transnational Investigation of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Protected Areas
Scientific advances depend on the availability, accessibility and reusability of data and digital research products. Yet much data on the Earth is not well preserved. IGCP 697 is connected with PARSEC, a project funded by the Belmont Forum, bringing together researchers in Australia, Brazil, France, Japan, USA and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to support the collaboration of a synthesis-science team and data-science team. The aim is to conduct a transdisciplinary, transnational synthesis science project, using artificial intelligence and deep learning, in parallel and in partnership with a project on the use and re-use of environmental and socioeconomic data to assess practices for managing and preserving data.
IGCP 697, in collaboration with PARSEC, will organize an early-career workshop in Brazil and will share the project's techniques, to include learning about data harmonization, necessary for artificial intelligence projects, methods used for deep learning, and the related data-management elements. Students from each of the participating countries will participate. Included is a visit to a protected area in the Amazon to better understand how well the ground data validates the analyzed satellite imagery.
Key information
Project Leader
Ashland, USA
Highlights
Data and Digital Object Management Plan paper
IGCP 697 team members recently published a paper in the Data Science Journal on the use of Data and Digital Object Management Plans (D(DO)MP) in research projects. In parallel they released a series of tools for researchers to help them create and manage their own project and best reap the benefits of a D(DO)MP:
Workshop
The most recent workshop for the PARSEC project was held at the Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity in July 2023. Additional funding from IUGS and UNESCO facilitated the attendance of two early career scientists, Jesse Jo Rego and Alec Bayarsky.
Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2022
IGCP 697 team members gave a talk on ‘Building new tools for data sharing and re-use through a transnational investigation of the socio-economic impacts of protected areas (PARSEC)’.
They also delivered a workshop on ‘DIY Open Science Collaboration. How to make the most of your [sustainability research] dream team’.
Earth and environmental vocabularies and ontologies today
This session presented brief histories of vocabulary implementation, along with the challenges encountered in real-world use. After the presentations, a panel discussion outlined characteristics of vocabularies and ontologies required to support existing and anticipated environmental and earth science research.
This project was developed with the generous financial support of the Jeju Province Development Co. (JPDC).
