1. From Observational Data to Information (OD2I IG )
Jay Pearlman and Markus Stocker
RDA Meeting January

2. Brief Recap of Purpose of WG/IG
Understanding the data and information value chain – “data to information (to knowledge)”
OD2I studies and advances understanding of the interface between users and research infrastructures in the data use phase of the research data lifecycle
Building on collected use cases, the OD2I IG advances understanding for how observational data evolve to information via interpretation

3. Process and Development Platform for continued assessments
OD2I Objectives
Engage variety of stakeholders
Collect use cases, solutions and challenges as reported by stakeholders
Develop solutions to unresolved challenges
Transfer solutions across stakeholders
Process and Development Platform for continued assessments

4. What has been accomplished to date?
A bird of a feather session at 9th Plenary – Introduction to subject and definition of scope; interest in moving ahead but more discussion needed. Monthly meetings (and more) over the last year to work out details Proposal for an IG recently with objective to have first meeting at 11th Plenary

5. Issues and Challenges Scoping
Aligning with the European Research Infrastructures
Identifying use cases

6. Use Cases Aerosol Science Biodiversity and Conservation Science
Precision Agriculture
Intelligent Transportation Systems

7. Aerosol Science Use Case
Observational data: Aerosol particle size distribution
Information: Machine readable descriptions of particle formation events
Activity: Human-in-the-loop visual data interpretation

8. Plan for Next 12 Months
OD2I IG kick-off session at Plenary 11 in Berlin
Liaise with related RDA IGs and WGs as well as groups outside RDA
Develop the OD2I IG’s reference conceptualization
White paper on developed reference conceptualization
Finalize the template for use case descriptions/update and expand use cases
Analyse the use cases for commonalities and differences
Identify and report common challenges
Collect feedback from teams implementing use cases

9. Related WG/IGs? Data in Context IG Data Fabric IG
Assessment of Data Fitness for Use WG
Data Foundation and Terminology WG
Research Data Provenance IG
Virtual Research Environment IG
Reproducibility IG
Long tail of research data IG
Global Water Information IG
Other ….

10. Fitting the RDA mission
RDA Plenary Theme: "From Data to Knowledge"
Socio-technical support for interpretation of primary data
Realize paths to improved information and knowledge-based systems
Increased usability of data as information by both humans and machines
Machines enabled in automated processing of information

11. Thank you

12. Best Practices in Ocean Observing Looking at the end to end value chain Jay Pearlman

13. Status of Ocean Best Practices (BP)
Large investments in high quality measurements
Quality of BP Documentation varies widely
Access to BP is challenging
Data and metadata formats are inconsistent
Machine readability is limited (if at all)
Sustainability is often not guaranteed

14. Best Practices Structure

15. Best Practices Flow

16. Best Practice System Introduce PIDs – DOI, ORCHID
Expand repository capabilities – based on IOC/IODE Ocean Best Practices Repository
Introduce consistent metadata structure through templates and through metadata enhancement
Introduce sematic-based search and draw on community vocabularies
Alignment with FAIR principles and open operations
Introduction of community peer review including Research Topic in Frontiers in Marine Science

17. Do we fit within RDA -
Are we part of an Interest Group (e.g. Marine Data Harmonization)?
Are we a working group? Or
Are we an adopter?