
Datascientia plenary meeting
Trento, Italy - 2020/02/29 to 2020/03/04

1. What is the Datascientia plenary meeting?
DataScientia plenary meetings are a good opportunity for new and established members alike to meet, get to know each other, discuss the exciting work and achievements done since the last meeting, and also plan ahead for future collaborations and breakthroughs.
Multiple categories are proposed to help organize the discussions but, true to our interest in diversity, each member is free to propose any session that they deem interesting for the other members and within the scope of Datascientia activities.
2. What is new in this meeting
We meet again a bit over one year after the kickoff meeting of 2019. Back then we introduced three main areas of Datascientia research – Behavioural/Language/Knowledge Diversity – and we launched a Behavioural Diversity capturing tool: i-Log, to be used by DataScientia partners for organizing experiments that generate research ready datasets about different human problems; like physical activity, traffic, academic performance, food intake, pollution, among others.
This year we meet again to share the great success of our launched initiative (with experiments in Paraguay, Mexico, China and soon more) and confidently go beyond as we announce our second major launch – Linguarena, in the Language Diversity area – that will lead us in the direction of capturing, managing and leveraging the language diversity around the world.
The meeting is organized along the lines of five main categories:
- Behavioural Diversity: introduction and progress related to our ongoing i-Log initiative, along with discussions of its evolution, future potential and collaborations.
- Language Diversity: launch of the Linguarena initiative with an in-depth look to its principles, research goals and implemented tools being made offered to Datascientia partners from that day on.
- Knowledge Diversity: we will discuss their possibilities, value and progress made on our Liveschema initiative.
- Teaching and dissemination: starting this year, we are organizing major mixed online and participatory courses related to the main Datascientia initiatives. This will surely become an important tool for gaining traction in academic environment and getting people interested in our work.
- Our Datascientia: we will refresh the main values, principles and objectives that guide Datascientia and discuss how to work together to effectively collaborate towards them.
3. General information and meeting logistics
The Datascientia kickoff meeting will take place in Trento from Monday March the 2nd to Tuesday March the 3rd. (with a strong possibility of additional social and scientific events taking place before and after these dates).
These intense one and a half days of research will take place at the Department of dept. of Sociology from the University of Trento, via Verdi, 26, Trento.
Conference Program at a glance
Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday | |||||
2020-02-29 | 2020-03-01 | 2020-03-02 | 2020-03-03 | 2020-03-04 | |
9:00 | Intro Session | Intro Session | LiveData1 | Bilateral Meetings | |
10:00 | Lime Surveys 1 | Social Events | LinguArena1 | ||
10:40 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | ||
11:00 | Lime Surveys 2 | LinguArena2 | Roundtable | ||
12:00 | LA Crowdsourcing 1 | Courses | |||
13:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | ||
14:00 | i-Log 1 | LA Crowdsourcing 2 | Aliaksandr Birukou | ||
15:00 | Roundtable | Research Infr. | |||
15:40 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | ||
16:00 | i-Log 2 | Liveschema | Governance | ||
17:00 | Next Steps | ||||
17:40 | Roundtable | ||||
18:00 | |||||
19:00 | MoU Signature | ||||
20:00 | Social Dinner | ||||
23:00 |
Invited Speakers
We are happy to announce our speakers who have so far confirmed their attendance.
![]() Aliaksandr Birukou Diversity of cultures and vocabularies in computer science conferences Conferences play a major role in scientific communication of computer scientists. In this talk we will look at different CS communities and their culture through the prism of peer review and research topics. For the peer review part, we will present the emerging industry standards for describing conference peer review processes. As for the research topics, identifying topics which best describe the conference is an important and non-trivial task. Good topics improve the content discovery and bad topics bury conference proceedings in the sea of knowledge. A couple of years ago, Springer has managed to switch from manual annotation of CS conference proceedings published in LNCS and other series to a tool-assisted annotation. We will present the tools involved in this process: Smart Topic Miner (STM) and the Computer Science Ontology (CSO) and developed by the researchers at the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University. Aliaksandr (Alex) Birukou is working as an Editorial Director in Springer Nature. His team in Computer Science Editorial in Heidelberg
is publishing the conference proceedings in CS (~850 volumes/year, including the LNCS series). Alex's other team running the portfolio
of ~200 journals in different disciplines, translated from Russian into English. Apart from editorial work Alex represents CS in several
internal and external R&D projects dealing with optimization or innovation of scientific publishing. |
![]() Ivano Bison Reformulating Diversity Diversity is a complex, multi-layered compositional construct that does not exist at the individual level of analysis. This means that we can recognize diversity only when we compare two people and therefore when we move at the level of dyad, group, organization, community. Nevertheless, the individual level of analysis is included as an aspect of diversity because individual differences in various attributes, when present in a community, create diversity. In this talk I will try to address three issues. The first is: what is diversity? The second is: what kind of diversity do we need? The third is: how can we modelling diversity in a computational model? Ivano Bison is associate professor of Methodology and Survey Design at the Department of Sociology and Social Research and Chair of the Interdepartmental Master degree on Data Science at the University of Trento (Italy). His research interests include the development in a holistic perspective of a new methodological approach (e.g. sequence analysis, semantic networks, etc.) to be applied to the study of life careers, social stratification, career mobility, academic performance, educational inequalities and social diversity. He is currently paying particular attention to the application of the social practice theory to the study of social role, social change and diversity in life courses. The above interests are in turn declined in a perspective of using new ICT technologies (e.g. sensor data, data collection from smartphones) and Big data to increase the knowledge of social relationships and human behavior in specific social contexts such as the academic career of students and their performance, and in general the social life and daily routines of people. Currently he is member of Horizon 2020 FET Proactive project “WeNet – The Internet of us” and member of unit on diversity with the task to develop new model of social diversity in a social science perspective. |
Full Program (preliminary)
Day1 - Saturday 29 February | |
9:00-9:40 | Introduction to the Tutorials Ronald Chenu-Abente, Ivano Bison, Marcelo Rodas |
9:40-10:40 | LimeSurveys - General Information and uses Enzo Loner, Ivano Bison |
10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-12:00 | LimeSurveys - Deployment and Configuration Enzo Loner, Ivano Bison |
12:00-13:00 | LimeSurveys - Execution and Data Management Enzo Loner, Ivano Bison, Marcelo Rodas |
13:00-14:00 | Lunchtime around the city |
14:00-14:40 | i-Log - General Information and uses Marcelo Rodas |
14:40-15:40 | i-Log - Deployment and Configuration Marcelo Rodas, Can Gunel |
15:40-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-17:00 | i-Log - Execution and Data Management Marcelo Rodas, Can Gunel, Ronald Chenu-Abente |
Day2 - Social Event - Sunday 1 March | |
9:00-14:00 | Social Event 1-3 hours walk through the beautiful Trentinian mountainside culminating on lunch (more detail soon) |
Day3, Monday 2 March | |
9:00-9:40 | Introduction to the Workshop Ronald Chenu-Abente |
9:40-10:40 | Linguarena Session 1 Gabor Bella, Erdenebileg Byambadorj, (To be confirmed)Fiona McNeill |
10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-12:00 | Linguarena Session 2 Gabor Bella, Khuyagbaatar Batsuren, Altangerel Chagnaa, Sunday O. Ojo |
12:00-13:00 | Linguarena Crowdsourcing Session 1 Gabor Bella, Jahna Otterbacher, Pınar Barlas |
13:00-14:00 | Lunchtime around the city |
14:00-14:40 | Linguarena Crowdsourcing Session 2 Jahna Otterbacher, Natascia Leonardi, Nandu Chandran Nair |
14:40-15:40 | Linguarena and Crowdsourcing Roundtable Gabor Bella |
15:40-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-17:40 | LiveSchema Session Mattia Fumagalli, Marco Boffo, Biswanath Dutta, Enzo Maltese |
17:40-18:15 | LiveSchema Roundtable Mattia Fumagalli |
Day4, Tuesday 3 March | |
9:00-9:40 | LiveData Session Marcelo Rodas, Salvador Ruiz Correa, Luca Cernuzzi |
10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-12:00 | LiveData Roundtable Marcelo Rodas |
12:00-13:00 | Datascientia Courses Fausto Giunchiglia, TBD |
13:00-14:00 | Lunchtime around the city |
14:00-15:00 | Invited Talk - Diversity of cultures and vocabularies in computer science conferences Aliaksandr Birukou |
15:00-15:40 | Datascientia Research Infrastructure Roberto Bona |
15:40-16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00-18:00 | Datascientia Governance and Next Steps MRonald Chenu-Abente |
18:30-19:30 | Memorandum of Understanding Signature Session Fausto Giunchiglia, TBD |
Social Dinner | TBD |
Day5, Wednesday 4 March | |
9:00-13:00 | Bilateral Meetings To be defined... |