CCQM Online Workshop on Digital and FAIR Chemical and Biological Reference Data and Certificates:
Challenges and Opportunities
9 - 12 September, 2024
Meeting details
The BIPM is assisting in the development of the SI Digital Framework – the network of tools, services, and applications that instantiate the Digital SI – assures that measurements are FAIR, machine-readable, machine-actionable, and support digital metrological traceability.
The development and promotion of an SI Digital Framework will include the following features
- a globally accepted digital representation of the SI, compatible with, and useable within, digital data exchange standards and protocols, whilst maintaining compatibility with existing non-digital solutions,
- facilitating use of digital certificates in the existing robust infrastructure for the world-wide recognition and acceptance of calibration and measurement capabilities,
- the adoption of the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) for digital metrological data and metadata, ensuring that other communities recognize the critical importance of metrological traceability for measurement data, the latter being an established requisite for building trust.
In the near term the objectives include establishing high-quality machine-useable open-access points to all relevant data, services and tools where their qualities are regularly controlled and verified, including the Key Comparison Database (CMC lists) and JCTLM database.
To progress this objective, the CCQM is organizing an online workshop on Digital and FAIR Chemical and Biological Reference Data and Certificates following three themes.
Session Themes
9 September
10 September
11 September
12 September
Presentations from panelists
Theme panelists will prepare pre-recorded presentations following the themes of their session. These will be available for viewing by registered participants from 15 July 2024 (expected date). Comments and questions can be posted by participants on the website, and these will form part of the discussions during the days of the workshop.
During the online sessions panelists will give a 5 minutes presentations summarizing the main points of their pre-recorded presentation, and then to engage in the panel/participant discussion session. Each session will have a session moderator and rapporteur, and the outcomes that are expected form each session are described in the section below.
Expected outcomes of the Workshop
Challenges with unique interoperable identifiers in the Chem/Bio area
- Gain understanding of the various options for unique interoperable identifiers for the measurands (within the scope of CCQM) that can cover both the component and matrix within the measurand description.
- Gain understanding on how to integrate unique interoperable identifiers with the concept of broad scope CMCs.
- Review the structure and use CMC service categories for Chemical/Biological CMCs for potential of implementing FAIR principles and relationship to the JCTLM and other databases.
- Develop recommendations of what system(s) of unique interoperable identifiers should be used in both the KCDB and JCTLM databases (beyond the use of InCHI).
Digitalization of CRM certificates
- Gain understanding of the various options for producing and maintaining digital certificates and specific issues that need to be addressed for CRM certificates.
- Gain understanding on how FAIR principles can be included in the production of digital CRM certificates. Understand the potential challenges within the scope of CCQM.
- Gain understanding of the how digital representations of measurement procedures can be developed and linked to digital certificates, and how they would be disseminated to stakeholders.
- Gain understanding of client expectations on uses, benefits and challenges of working with digital CRM certificates.
- Gain understanding on the level of resources and infrastructure required to develop and maintain digital certificates.
- Develop recommendations on options for NMIs wishing to implement Digital CRM certificates and adhere to FAIR principles.
Best practice in developing databases for Chem/Bio data that meet FAIR principles
- Gain understanding of the benefits and challenges to transitioning to the use databases for scientific data.
- Gain understanding of applying FAIR principles to Database development. What are the benefits and challenges?
- Gain understanding on examples of how FAIR principles have been applied to various databases, libraries, or any other data products.
- Develop recommendations on key issues to be considered in database development and maintenance when wishing to apply FAIR principles.