OS020
Realizing the full potential of open-source ocean data for scientific and socio-economic (re)use
Realizing the full potential of open-source ocean data for scientific and socio-economic (re)use
Session ID#: 161025
Session Description:
Governmental environmental and science agencies worldwide generate several terabytes or more of publicly funded operational and research meteorological and oceanographic data a day. The primary data demand is for government agencies to understand, address, and predict socio-economic and ocean health issues at all spatial and temporal scales of interest. The secondary data demand is often for (re)use by the public and private industry. New blue economy businesses are growing, investing, contributing several billions of dollars to the global ocean economy enterprise. Use of open data for scientific, governmental, public, and private industry is increasingly becoming interwoven. It is difficult to track and quantify the scientific and socio-economic value or return on investment (ROI) of the publicly funded data (i.e., value-chain analysis). This session welcomes theoretical, modelling, and observation-based studies of costs, value, and benefits of open ocean data (re)use and government-public-private partnerships.
Index Terms:
4299 General or miscellaneous [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
6314 Demand estimation [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
6620 Science policy [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Convener: Hernan Eduardo Garcia, National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly NODC), NOAA NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Conveners: Tim Boyer, NOAA NCEI, Washington, DC, United States, Anna Silyakova, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Ocean (HUB Ocean), Oslo, Norway and Jo Ovastaas, Ocean Data Foundation, Oslo, Norway
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