Units, Symbols and Terminology for Data Driven Science: Philosophy to Pragmatism

Описание: Recorded: Tuesday 14 October 2025
Title: Units, Symbols and Terminology for Data Driven Science: Philosophy to Pragmatism
Presenters: Stuart Chalk, Aileen Day, Max Gruber, Blair Hall, Samantha Pearman-Kanza,Vanessa Seifert

DESCRIPTION
The rapid changes in the way we undertake scientific research driven by digitalisation and artificial intelligence means we need to look again at the basis of scientific methods, requiring the input from the philosophy of science and one end while being pragmatic about the uses of technology at the other. This approach will provide a way to ensure that our research and teaching is relevant, effective and efficient.

More specifically, this means revisiting the topics of quality and provenance frameworks as developed by certain disciplines; exploring the role of metadata and semantics in such frameworks and in the context of use of data by AI systems; exploring how the digital representation of units is best managed in such frameworks.

1. Scientific discoveries in the age of AI (Vanessa A Seifert)
2. A knowledge model for the SI brochure: the SI Reference Point (Dr. Maximilian Gruber)
3. Quantities, Not Quantities, and Making Sure Our Data is Useful (Dr. Cerys Willoughby & Elizabth Newbold)
4. Sharing measurement data: enabling interoperability (Blair Hall)
5. Practical Application of the Definition and Conversion of Units in the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) (Dr. Aileen Day)
6. Thoughts on AI and Scientific Data (Dr. Samantha Pearman-Kanza & Prof. Stuart Chalk)

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