Chinese National Committee for CODATA: Mission and development

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Chinese National Committee for CODATA Mission
and development

• National Delegate Prof. Zhihong Xu

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Background

• China joined CODATA in 1984, establishing Chinese
  National Committee for CODATA (CODATA-China for
  short)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences as the National
  Member
• Ministry of Science and Technology
• Ministry of Education
• Ministry of Chemical Industry
• National Standard Committee
• State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping
• Institute of Measurement
• Chinese Science Association
• National Science Foundation

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Background
Current and Former Presidents
Former President Zhou Guangzhao (1984-1991)
Former President Hu Qiheng (1992-1996)
Current President Chen Yiyu (1997-)
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Background

• CODATA-China set up a full-time Secretariat at
  Computer Network Information Center.
• Organize domestic data Investigation,
  Cooperation, and Exchange
• Hold domestic and International Academic
  Conference
• Organize surveys for domestic data resources

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Background (Name list)

• President Chen Yiyu(NSFC, CAS)
• Vice presidentYan Baoping(CNIC)
• National dellegate Xu Zhihong
• Secretary generalXiao Yun(CNIC)
• Member
• Cao Yongsheng (agricultural science)
• Chen Ji Sheng (Academician of CAE)
• Gui Wenzhuang (director of high tech.,CAS)
• Guo Huadong (director of foreign affairs, CAS)
• Liu Zhiyong(vice director of information,
  Science, NSFC)
• Ma Juncai (professor, CAS)
• Oyang Hua (professor, CAS)
• Shao Liqing(director inspector, MOST)
• Soon Ling (Department of Information Science)
• Wang Qiming (economic specialist, State
  Development Planning Commision)
• Yuan Haibo(NSFC)
• Zhang Xianen(MOST)
• Zhang Xiaozhong (professor of Tsinghua
  University)
• Zhu Jinning (CAST,director of foreign affairs)

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LOGO

• On the basis of the logo of International CODATA,
  we designed the logo for Chinese National
  Committee for CODATA.

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Activities and Achievement

• From the beginning of Eighty of last century, we
  began to prepare to join CODATA. And in the
  meanwhile the CAS started its scientific database
  making project. National planning Commission and
  Science Technology Commission support us.
• Based on the database work started, CAS on behalf
  of China applied to enter into the international
  CODATA and pay attention to the data organization
  work.

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Mission

• 1. Organize and link Domestic interdisciplinary
  data sharing
• 2. Organize to join International scientific
  data work and activities
• 3. Help and push data exchange, cooperation and
  sharing work in scientific research

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Mission

• Help the scientists to know the importance of
  data accumulation and sharing, help scientists to
  join the sharing policy making
• Organize the investigation work of domestic data,
  to push the corporation and exchanging work
• Organize the academic activities of scientific
  data, to give consultant to scientists to find
  their needed data
• To promote the data logging, assembly,
  standardize, computer treatment. Help to set up
  the computer platform for data processing
• Help to organize the data evaluation, database
  processing, data quality control work
• Help to organize national scale database and
  database system setting up, promote and encourage
  the sharing of database system

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Activity Forms

• For each year we host once Chinese CODATA
  conference
• Organize domestic specialists to join CODATA
  work, including International CODATA activities
• Organize domestic scientific data and database
  conference
• Help to publish some books, papers in the field
  of scientific data
• Organize Chinese scholars to join International
  CODATA Conference
• Help the data maker to publish their data books
  or papers
• Help to organize some data and database setting
  up project

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Activities and Achievement

• For each year we organize the enlarge Chinese
  CODATA committee, to exchange the data and
  database work (example )
• Help to push the database maker to put their data
  and database onto the Internet (Setup website,
  example)

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Activities and Achievement
http//www.codata.cn
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• Work Groups

Fundamental Constants
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Material Properties
Environment
Atomic and Molecular Data
Chinese CODATA
Geoscience
Biological Macromolecules
Mechanical and Structure Design
Secretariat
Nuclear Data
Gas Hydrates
Nano Materials
Bioinfomatics
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Activities and achievements

• Published some academic works

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Activities and achievements

• Made three surveys of Scientific
  Data-distribution and Data-serving on Internet,
  with support from MOST
• Apr. 1993
• Jul. 1993
• Nov. 1993
• Played an active role in the program of National
  Scientific Data-sharing Platform ever since 1999

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Activities and Achievement

• Began to coordinate the project of CODATA-China
  Physics and Chemistry Database sponsored by MOST
  from 2001

http//dc.codata.cn
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Activities and Achievement
Organized numbers of domestic scientists and
researchers to attend the International CODATA
Conference
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Activities and Achievement

• Hold 13th CODATA International Academic
  Conference in 1992

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Activities and Achievement

• Hold 13th CODATA International Academic
  Conference in 1992

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Activities and Achievement

• In 2000 China CODATA and USA CODATA organized
  twice conferences to exchange scientific
  information
• In 2000 March USA CODATA hosted a meeting in
  Washington,D.C.) and in 2000 December Chinese
  CODATA hosted a same meeting in Beijing.
• On those meeting we both introduced a lot of
  working experiences, discussed a series of
  measures to set up cooperation. We selected
  several fields e.g. nature sciences, environment
  science, and earth science etc., in which some
  items had been set up and the feasibility of
  those items had been studied.

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Activities and Achievement

• Feb. 28th-Mar. 1st of 2003, President of CODATA
  Shuichi Iwata being with us.

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Activities and Achievement

• Successfully held regional meeting of methane
  hydrate working group in 2004

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Activities and Achievement

• Began to edit Nuclide Guide series, copies in
  Chinese, English and Russian will be published in
  Aug. 2004.

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Development for CODATA-China
Intensify international exchange and cooperation
Closely follow international S T data work
frontier
Science Technology Society
Promote
Promote the interdisciplinary data work sharing
Help and support developing countries data work
Push S T data to help the science and
national economy
To promote the development of S T and the
progress of society
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Development for CODATA-China

• Promoting international collaboration
• Continue contributing to International CODATA
• Broadcast CODATA activities with its website
  http//www.codata.cn, providing links to and
  introduce websites of important scientific
  databases
• Bring in latest trends for better constructing,
  dealing and utilizing data
• Push forward worldwide data sharing and
  application
• Serve its function as a platform for
  international collaboration about Science and
  Technology

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Development for CODATA-China

• Trace international trends for scientific
  research, thus to provide timely scientific data
  support
• Bring in international data resources based on
  latest research trends
• Play a more active role in initiating and joining
  international task groups
• Initiate domestic task groups, promoting frontier
  research work

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Development for CODATA-China

• Advocate interdisciplinary data construction,
  sharing and application.
• Actively participate in building up the National
  basic platform
• Organize exchanges and discussions on scientific
  data construction, as well as relevant
  technologies, standards, models and application.
• Initiate researches for establishing scientific
  data sharing policies and data evaluation system
• Make efforts on getting more financial support
  from the country

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Development for CODATA-China

• Support and encourage the establishment of
  scientific databases and their relevant tasks in
  developing countries
• Scientific Data sharing
• Provide technical support for database
  construction and application
• Train more talented person
• Bilateral collaboration and exchange

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Development for CODATA-China

• Promote applications of scientific data on
  scientific research, national policy-making,
  national economic development, etc.
• Provide support and consulting service on
  scientific data.
• Push forward application of scientific data in
  various industries and practice.
• Organize exemplary application of scientific data
  in various fields with great importance.

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Development for CODATA-China

• This year 2004 is the 20th annual to enter
  CODATA, and there are many results in the field
  of scientific data activities. The most important
  contribution for Chinese CODATA is to set up
  constant and tight connections with our
  counterparts throughout the world.
• With the 21 century coming, the requirements to
  scientific information will be more and more. We
  are sure data sharing policy will be implemented
  both in our country and also the developed
  countries.
• In the meanwhile, our scientific data workers
  will face challenges both from the computer
  technology development and social requirements.
  We fully understand what it means. Chinese CODATA
  will be growing up simultaneously.

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