Strategies for Preservation of and Open Access to Scientific Data in China Summary of a Workshop (2006) / Chapter Skim
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, and supported by the National People's Congress. This China Scientific Data Sharing Program includes "creating a law to ensure that scientific information is communicated more widely, and coordinating efforts by government departments to develop information centers and databases to facilitate the communication of scientific and technological information."2 This new policy toward greater openness with publicly funded scientific data is part of a broader effort to modernize the national research and development infrastructure and its management in China.
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Focused on scientific resources sharing policy, that meeting provided some of the advance groundwork for the June 2004 workshop that is the topic of this report. It also re-confirmed the commitment of the Chinese science policy community to promoting greater openness regarding Chinese scientific data and identified the priority areas for additional focus.
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It built on the results of the four previous bilateral CODATA meetings and on the new Chinese scientific data access policy initiative noted above. The workshop explored in detail the various scientific and technical, legal and policy, institutional and economic, and management aspects that need to be addressed in successfully implementing sustainable and accessible archives of digital health and environmental data resources in China.
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STRUCTURE OF THIS REPORT Because this report is a summary of the workshop, it is limited in scope to the presentations and other information identified during the meeting. Chapter 2 presents two keynote speeches in their entirety by high-ranking officials at the Ministry of Science and Technology who describe the development and status of China's national Scientific Data Sharing Policy.
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The presentation materials used by the invited speakers are available in English on the USNC for CODATA Web site at http://www7.nationalacademies.org/usnc-codata/chinese_workshop.html.
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