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The World Data System is governed by the Scientific Committee (SC) [7] composed of leading scientists and experts actively involved with data. Per the WDS Constitution (Annex 1), the SC consists of a Chairperson and no more than eleven additional members. Committee members are elected to serve for a term of three-year, renewable once.
The World Data Centre (WDC) system was created to archive and distribute data collected from the observational programmes of the 1957–1958 International Geophysical Year by the International Council of Scientific Unions . [1] [2] The WDCs were funded and maintained by their host countries on behalf of the international science community.
The Committee on Data of the International Science Council (CODATA) was established in 1966 as the Committee on Data for Science and Technology, originally part of the International Council of Scientific Unions, now part of the International Science Council (ISC). [1] Since November 2023 its president is the Catalan researcher Mercè Crosas. [2]
ISRIC is a regular member of the ISC World Data System, and is known as WDC-Soils since 1989. [4] ISRIC's main open access databases include WoSIS, [ 5 ] a large database of quality-assessed and standardised soil profile data for the world, that has been used for producing soil property maps at 250 m resolution, with quantified uncertainty,for ...
Other ISC's inaugural Officers elected for the term of 2018–2021 were Elisa Reis (Vice President), [8] Jinghai Li (Vice President), [9] Renée van Kessel (Treasurer), [10] and Alik Ismail-Zadeh (Secretary). [11] Until February 2022, Heide Hackmann served as the Council's CEO. [12] In 2023, Salvatore Aricò was elected Chief Executive Officer ...
Changing a measurement system has costs in the near term, which often results in resistance to such a change. The substantial benefit of conversion to a more rational and internationally consistent system of measurement has been recognized and promoted by scientists, engineers, businesses and politicians, and has resulted in most of the world ...
The merger, which came in response to increasing demand for environmental information, was intended to make NOAA's data more useful through the application of consistent data stewardship practices across all science disciplines. NCEI works with the ISC World Data System to make data free and accessible. [4]
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., also known as ISC, is an American non-profit corporation that supports the infrastructure of the universal, self-organizing Internet by developing and maintaining core production-quality software, protocols, and operations.