August 11, 2026
Calgary
Canada/Mountain timezone

Session

Session 4

Aug 11, 2026, 2:50 PM
Calgary

Calgary

Conveners

Session 4: Policy makers; UNESCO, CODATA and the International Science Council

  • Andrew Goetz (ESRF)

Description

Rising above the national concerns are the international organisations. For crystallography this is IUCr of course. But across all the sciences and wider we have the UN and its subsidiaries UNESCO and the International Science Council and its committee for data, CODATA. IUCr sends representatives to these bodies.

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  1. John Helliwell
    8/11/26, 2:50 PM

    I know that open research is a good thing to ensure my laboratory’s research findings are as reproducible as possible. Accordingly, as a laboratory leader, I have made all our scientific outputs as available as possible. This involved, as resources grew, such as open access of our publications, protein structure coordinates and structure factors free to deposit and use via the PDB and, as...

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  2. John Helliwell
    8/11/26, 3:20 PM

    John Helliwell will present slides prepared by Dr Lili Zhang, Coordinator of the Global Open Science Cloud (GOSC) headquartered in Beijing on behalf of CODATA, on the state of Open Science in China.JH with Genji Kurisu, Director of the PDBj and their XRDa raw diffraction data archive, are PIs of a GOSC IUCr Case Study on Raw Diffraction Data for Definitive Protein Structures.

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  3. Charles Woodford (RDA)
    8/11/26, 3:50 PM

    The coordination of data infrastructure is on the rise. “Open Science Commons” or “Data Commons” provide a shared virtual space for data and services. The Research Data Alliance Global Open Research Commons (RDA GORC) groups are working to support coordination amongst national, pan-national and domain specific organizations such as the Digital Research Alliance of Canada and the European Open...

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  4. Andrew Goetz (ESRF)
    8/11/26, 4:20 PM
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