{"id":3099,"date":"2025-10-10T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:34:22","slug":"marc-nyssen-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee-ordinary-member-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/marc-nyssen-candidacy-for-codata-executive-committee-ordinary-member-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Nyssen: Candidacy for CODATA Executive Committee Ordinary Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Marc-Nyssen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3100 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Marc-Nyssen-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Marc-Nyssen-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Marc-Nyssen.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a>This is the sixth in the series of short statements from candidates in the coming CODATA Elections at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/codata.org\/events\/general-assembly\/general-assembly-2025\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the General Assembly to be held on 17-18 October 2025<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Marc Nyssen is a candidate for the CODATA Executive Committee as an Ordinary Member.<\/span><\/i><b><i> He was nominated by the International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The importance of sharing high quality data among scientists cannot be underestimated, therefore the data committees such as CODATA, especially in the ISC context are instrumental to improve data sharing, primarily in the scientific community but with impact on the whole world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my field &#8220;medical informatics&#8221;, I see three major challenges regarding data that could be addressed:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the appropriate sharing of medical data, while protecting the privacy of the individual;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the rewarding of scientists who share quality and well documented data, resulting from their research;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the data quality, interoperability and ethical aspects surrounding &#8220;artificial intelligence&#8221; applications, especially in health care.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To illustrate the importance of the first of these challenges just think of the way tests of new medication are performed: it would not be possible to include millions of patients; therefore potential rare side-effects cannot be detected; well controlled follow-up via appropriately encoded medical records would potentially save lives and hardship when carried out, perhaps over many years. But with respect of the privacy of the participants and their right to retract their data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this field, collaboration with the WHO (where I am the &#8220;focal point&#8221; WHO liaison in the International Federation for medical and biological engineering) would be a very interesting factor, possibly leading to a breakthrough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After first contacts established in 2025, it is our hope that WHO will adopt CODATA&#8217;s CDIF interoperability guidelines and methodology in their different publicly available repositories, facilitating multidisciplinary research, based on high quality data.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists currently are judged mainly by the impact factors of their publications. Would it not be good to include an impact factor, related to the well documented quality data they provide to the scientific community, not only to thoroughly sustain their own research, but also enabling others to enrich the available datasets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I will gladly contribute to these and other matters regarding FAIR and Open data and CODATA, with its projects, publications and working groups is the greatest place to realize that, as a volunteer surrounded by colleagues from different fields and continents, as well as the staff, driven by the same goals, especially in challenging times.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the sixth in the series of short statements from candidates in the coming CODATA Elections at the General Assembly to be held on 17-18 October 2025. Marc Nyssen is a candidate for the CODATA Executive Committee as an Ordinary Member. 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