Data is the new gold. Les données permettent de valider les résultats de la recherche et d’objectiver la prise de décision stratégique en entreprise. La gestion des données est ainsi devenue un enjeu majeur.
Comment appliquer les principes FAIR à l’université, en entreprise, dans un institut de recherche ?
ABD-BVD : Inforum 2022 – It’s all about data
KBR – salle Auditorium – 28 Mont des Arts Entrée Gutenberg 1000 Bruxelles
22/11/2022 – 9:00-17:00
https://www.abd-bvd.be/fr/agenda/inforum-2022/
@bernardrentier when you say "new", you're referring to the past 80 years right?
@skanman During the 80 previous rears, data has been the hidden gold.
@bernardrentier
I see your point but let's pretend there's only 2 houses in the world and a very large wall separating them. A red house contains all the people who value products and the blue house contains all the people who value making products. While the vast majority of the population live in the red house, the people in the blue house continue to build the wall separating them larger. Why would they do that? The people in the blue house are in control of the people in the red house. But without the red house, the people in the blue house serve no purpose. If the people in the red house are exposed to the blue house, they will deplete the ability of the blue house to supply them with product. If the wall is too big, you get over production and values are destroyed. If the wall is too small, you get under production and the value is too high.
The caveat: both houses value certain types of data, but not each others data. But as time goes on, both houses change the value of products they use.
The result of this is highly entertaining to watch. As time goes by both houses change their color in alternation. But neither house is aware of the condition of the color of it's opposing house because of the wall.
This creates a value of disparity in raw data.
Simplified Example:
You build cars.
You eat food.
You value metallurgy, physics, engineering, the more you know, the more you eat.
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I grow food.
I drive cars.
I value meteorology, agriculture, chemistry, the more I know, the nicer car I drive.
But more people cook food than build cars.
So food is cheaper than cars. People are comfortable with this balance.
Both collect raw data in their job to make their job process more efficient. But here's the catch, once they both have used the raw data to improve efficiency. The efficiency holds the value and the data is no longer necessary. Why isn't the data shared between the both you and I?
Simple answer:
I don't want you building cars AND growing food, makes your value higher than mine.
You don't want me growing food AND building car, makes my value higher than yours.
So we protect the data that's important to us. Then once we've used it, we destroy it or hide it because of competition. We build walls between our houses.
One day, a new guy builds another house. But he doesn't grow food or build cars.
He builds signs.
Drives cars.
Eats food.
He is more expensive because he can choose to help you or me become more competitive than the other. You and I both need him. You and I both pay him. But you pay him more and I pay him less. But he makes more than you and I combined. Now you and I want to do what he does. We could if we had each others data, but we will never share it because of competition. But the new guy uses tools to gather the data anyway.
See, the data was always gold.
We always knew the data was gold.
We have always been so selfish with it.
Because we're so greedy, now you and I want to be Google. The sexy guy with all the data.
There's a dangerous reality though.
If we don't eat we die.
If we don't drive, were ok.
If we stop paying Google, nothing changes.
One day the data will be worthless cause everyone will realize we have always had it. The machines will build the machines. But that food.. who owns more farmland than anyone else? Oh yeah.. Bill gates 😂
I love this planet.. it's so entertaining watching everyone rushing around competing with each other 😁
Happy Friday my friend, I wish you good food, healthy family, and all the data in the world.
@skanman Thanks for your response ! A technical question first : how do you manage to post long messages >500 signs ?
@bernardrentier I see you're using the Mastadon client for iOS which I believe limits the character count for making posts in the client. Our server instance, Qoto.org, is capable of 65,500 character posts, if you use the web, or install the PWA version of the app.
To use the PWA version of the app in iOS,
1.) Open qoto.org in the safari browser.
2.) Select the share button, as if to share it with a friend.
3.) One of the share options will be 'Add to homescreen'
4.) Select add on the upper right hand corner of the screen.
@bernardrentier De rien 🙂
@skanman Apart from that, to answer your question, what the research community needs is simply that the data supporting the research results published in open access are appended the publications online. They must be universally understandable and reusable and they should be ideally on the same open platform. This is technically simple and it has been well developed for a long time, but is not practiced enough at all by researchers. What is missing is a will, not so much a technique.
@bernardrentier I see, there's no software I'm aware of that imposes will on to others, and I'm grateful for that.
However in my brief stint of psychology classes: to change the will of others, simply alter their valuations. Being that you say it's been well developed, to make researchers use it more, requires an incentive. I haven't the slightest idea of how to incentivise that. I will give it considerable thought.
@bernardrentier how would you feel about a search engine that you ask a question, and instead of it dumping 20,000,000 results, it reads the content of the results and conglomerates the data into 1 page that delivers data based on relevance and accredited citation?
@skanman This is a different matter, but it would obviously be very interesting. There is currently a search engine that does a bit of that, called Scholar Google, but it's not as sharp as what you propose.
@bernardrentier Oh I see!, That would be marvelous. Society generally demands instant gratification, while quality data takes care and time to procure.
Do you suppose using some sort of real time tracking system that would provide transparency to the public may alleviate the impatient and make the skeptical feel more secure? I could build such a public platform easily.
How do you feel about exploitation of the data? The media quite often manipulates results to accommodate their agendas. While I don't particularly care what they do, if the public who funded the research discovers this, they maybe hesitant to fund future projects. Any ideas on how to counter this issue?
Sorry again for the long post, but part of my goal of using Mastadon is to actually make a difference and help people.
I would be interested in contributing.