Integration

For the last few years, let us say about three, people in my field have often talked about the F.A.I.R. principles: loved by European officials, regarded with suspicion by computer engineers, partly approved by scientists. These principles have a significant impact on research areas that in some way deal with data and data sharing. Question: which area of research has nothing to do with data and their distribution? Answer: almost none. Logical inference: the FAIR principles, whether we say “great!” or “alas”, concern almost all researchers. ...

Da qualche anno a questa parte - diciamo circa tre anni - nel mio ambito si sente spesso parlare dei principi F.A.I.R: amati dai funzionari Europei, guardati con sospetto dagli ingegneri informatici, approvati in parte dagli scienziati, questi principi hanno un consistente impatto negli ambiti della ricerca che in qualche modo hanno a che fare con i dati e la loro condivisione. Domanda: quale ambito della ricerca non ha a che fare con i dati e loro distribuzione? Risposta: quasi nessuno. Inferenza logica: i principi FAIR (“evviva!" oppure “ahimé") riguardano un po’ tutti i ricercatori. ...

Because of my job at INGV, where I am involved in the major EPOS European Project, I spend a lot of time reading papers, blog posts, and other resources, not to mention discussing with great colleagues, all dealing with the central subject of system interoperability. Actually, the real topic for me is interoperability, whose meanings vary across the fields of knowledge, and life, in which we use the concept. In the social sciences we may call it interculturality or interculturalism. In economics, we might call it price, the mechanism that enables exchange of goods. But that is another story, and I think the idea is clear. ...

Because of my job at INGV, where I’m involved in the huge EPOS European Project, I’m daily diving into lots of information from papers, blog posts and other resources (not last, some discussions with great colleagues) which all deal with the main subject of interoperability of systems. Well, actually the real main topic to me is interoperability, whose inflections can be as many as the fields of knowledge (and life) where we use such concept: we may call it Interculturality or Interculturalism in social sciences, we may call it price, which allows the goods exchange in Economics… but well, that’s another story and I think you get the idea. ...