National Science Library, the Chinese Academy of Sciences will hold the International Symposium on “Open Data and Innovation: Vision and Practice (ODI2017)” in Beijing from July 12 to 15, 2017.

The symposium is focused on how to create a data to knowledge community that gathers contributors across domains to create intelligent data and further integrate them to form the knowledge base which knowledge units, either data or conclusions, are interconnected. It aims to:

(1) explore new practical ways to open, share, and reuse data in the future;

(2) share good practice for data openness, sharing and reuse from multi-disciplines;

(3) discuss critical issues such as incentive mechanisms, service models, standards and technical requirements and so on and possible ways out in pushing data open and intelligent;

(4) build up a community of interest about open data and data intelligence.