DAITF Global Meeting on Data

A worldwide interaction of various data practitioners from the US, EU, Australia and other areas has been started to harmonize data access and interoperability solutions. The interactions also includes stakeholders such as NSF, the EC and other research agencies. Two acronyms have been used for this broad bottom-up organized process: DAITF (Data Access and Interoperability Task Force) and DWF (Data Web Forum) both referring to the same intentions – yet it is not clear what name finally will be used and what the governance structure will look like. A first meeting with global participation took place in Copenhagen in March (see www.daitf.org) with about 40 experts from many areas of the world. The first follow-up meeting to the Copenhagen meeting will take place in Washington, D.C. October 1-2, 2012. For all content issues about this Global Data Meeting please look at www.daitf.org.