Lunch Talks "From Data to Impact: Showcasing Open Research Datasets"
Event details
| Date | 06.10.2026 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:45 |
| Speaker | Gaétan de Rassenfosse; Alexis Berne; Róbert Fónod |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Join the next Lunch Talks session, "From Data to Impact: Showcasing Open Research Datasets", on October 6th, from 12:15 to 13:45, in CM 1 2.
Language: English
Doors open from 12:05
Free lunch bag for registered participants. Water not included: please bring your reusable bottle to help reduce environmental impact.
PROGRAM
"In October 2022, a fleet of ten drones spent four days filming traffic across the smart city of Songdo, South Korea, producing terabytes of 4K aerial video. This talk follows what happened next: how that raw footage became a connected set of openly available research outputs. The project released two datasets (vehicle trajectories and annotated aerial imagery), three reusable software tools, a ready-to-use machine learning model, an interactive online demo, and a peer-reviewed open access paper tying everything together, each one cross-linked, citable, and archived for the long term. Using this as a worked example, I will share practical lessons on making research outputs findable, reusable, properly licensed, and cited, including a few surprises about which parts the community valued most."
"The raindrop size distribution is a crucial information for atmospheric sciences, remote sensing and communications. Its current observations (from disdrometers) are rather spread between countries and institutions with heterogeneous variables and formats, hampering easy and broad access to public analysis-ready data sets. DISDRODB is an infrastructure (with associated softwares) aiming to provide a unified framework for the systematic sharing, standardization, and processing of disdrometer data. I will introduce DISDRODB and discuss the challenges to develop such tools."
"This talk will present several Science,Technology and Innovation Policy Laboratory initiatives aimed at producing open datasets to support more evidence-based policymaking in science and innovation."
Language: English
Doors open from 12:05
Free lunch bag for registered participants. Water not included: please bring your reusable bottle to help reduce environmental impact.
- Welcome and introduction
- Talk 1 | Beyond the Dataset: Turning One Project into an Open Research Ecosystem
"In October 2022, a fleet of ten drones spent four days filming traffic across the smart city of Songdo, South Korea, producing terabytes of 4K aerial video. This talk follows what happened next: how that raw footage became a connected set of openly available research outputs. The project released two datasets (vehicle trajectories and annotated aerial imagery), three reusable software tools, a ready-to-use machine learning model, an interactive online demo, and a peer-reviewed open access paper tying everything together, each one cross-linked, citable, and archived for the long term. Using this as a worked example, I will share practical lessons on making research outputs findable, reusable, properly licensed, and cited, including a few surprises about which parts the community valued most."
- Talk 2 | DISDRODB: a decentralized data base of drop size distribution observations, and much more
"The raindrop size distribution is a crucial information for atmospheric sciences, remote sensing and communications. Its current observations (from disdrometers) are rather spread between countries and institutions with heterogeneous variables and formats, hampering easy and broad access to public analysis-ready data sets. DISDRODB is an infrastructure (with associated softwares) aiming to provide a unified framework for the systematic sharing, standardization, and processing of disdrometer data. I will introduce DISDRODB and discuss the challenges to develop such tools."
- Talk 3 | Open data for better science policy
"This talk will present several Science,Technology and Innovation Policy Laboratory initiatives aimed at producing open datasets to support more evidence-based policymaking in science and innovation."
- Panel for Q&A, open discussion
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