Dr. LIU Chuang is a Professor from the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR/CAS), Editor-in-Chief of Global Change Research Data Publishing and Repository. She is
Member of Consultant Committee of China Association for Science and Technology for UN , Founder and Secretary of CODATA Task Group on Preservation of and Open Access to Scientific and Technic Data in/for/with Developing Countries (CODATA-PASTD), Vice Chair of Expert Group of China National Committee for GEO (Group on Earth Observations) and Director of Digital LIN Chao Geomuseum.
She attained her Ph.D. in Peking Unviersity in 1989 in Geography, and Visiting Professor of University of British Columbia, Canada (1992-1993), Information Scientist in Center of International Earth Science InformaitonNetwrk (CIESIN), USA (1994-1998), and Professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1999. She is a team leader of preservation of and open access to scientific data in developing countires. She has also obtained the CODATA Prize in 2008.
Presentation Title
Global Change Research Data Publishing and Sharing - a data sharing infrastructure in developing countries
Abstract
Sharing research data not only provides fundamental resources for research, but can be an accelerator for the knowledge economy and to achieve the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As we enter the big data era, data sharing in developing countries has become even more critical, since the digital divide is to expand even more, because of infrastructure and capacity gaps. The joint effort among Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natureal Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Jemo Kenyatta Unviersity of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya, as well as parters, the Global Change Research Data Publishing and Reposiroty has been online at http://geodoi.ac.cn since June 2014. The infrastructure for data publishing, reposiroty, long term preservation and open for free access has been oprated and more than 90,000 dataset files were down loaded by world wide users in the last 12 months.