2012_JpGU; Union Session (U-01) "Toward a New Framework of Global Data Activity"

Session Scope:
Data in Earth, planetary and space sciences is growing in size
explosively, is becoming heterogeneous in nature, and is requiring
multidisciplinary interactions to related scientific fields and more
general society. As the importance of the data is increasingly stressed,
further efforts to use and publish such data in various ways are
expected for communications with general society. Database or data
center works in individual institutes have become more active; at the
same time discussions to make interdisciplinary cooperation or fusion
between databases, organizations, and data systems are strongly required.
While international unions, programmes, and bodies such as IUGG, IPY,
IRDR, WMO, UNESCO, etc., have been launching their own data activities
and/or are showing the interest in data issues separately, they are now
discussing or approaching collaboration with related activities. A new
programme, ICSU World Data System (WDS), was launched in 2008, where one
of the most important goals is to realize "system of data systems". In
November 2010 ICSU decided to establish its international programme
office (IPO) in Japan. This session welcomes reports and discussions on
domestic and international data activities, and development of system of
data systems and key technologies for international data sciences and
data systems, as well as it fosters and facilitates various exchanges
and mutual understanding between multidisciplinary science data
activities/programmes/institutes; also this session welcomes discussions
on activities and communities in Japan and how they can interact with
ICSU-WDS and other related activities to aim at the shared interests and
goals.