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Hosted by China Association for Science and Technology, the Eurasian Young Scientists Open Science Salon will be organized by the Beijing International Exchange Association and co-organized by Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, "Athena" Research and Innovation Center, and OpenAIRE on July 20-21, 2022.

In September 2021, LA Referencia, RedCLARA and the Research Data Alliance United States (RDA-US) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) where all three organizations agreed to mutual activities aimed at accelerating the open sharing and re-use of research data between the Latin American region and North America. These activities included efforts which would improve communication and facilitate the exchange of resources and technical capabilities.

This event is the first in a series of webinars focused on open research data in Latin American countries and its intersection with advances in open science in the United States and Europe.

Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space

For decades now, we have been feeding the Internet with petabytes of information of all kinds. The amount of data is indeed so massive and varied that it is not feasible for humans to make sense of it using current processes and standards. What to do then?