On Tuesday afternoon, 1 October, the Nederlandse centrum voor Geodesie en Geo-informatie (NCG), is organising a workshop on data generated from sensors. At the ‘LEF Future Center’ in Utrecht, participants, together with a number of experience experts, will delve deeper into especially the ethical and legal aspects of using data from sensors.
Data collected automatically by ‘machines’ has long since ceased to be the privilege of ‘earth observation’ disciplines or biologists with DNA sequencers. Human behaviour is monitored with apps, we see wolves mostly on camera traps, and traffic cameras and GPS systems record our car and public transport movements in detail every day. During this workshop, four researchers will explain from their own work how these data are collected, how the data are used and what new insights they provide, but also what specific problems sensor data entail. It is not always easy to assess whether privacy issues are sufficiently protected when people are equipped with sensors, or when, for instance, drones or cameras unintentionally record things that could violate the privacy of individuals or groups.
Hans Nobbe (Rijkswaterstaat), Ard Nieuwenhuizen (Wageningen University & Research), Elaine van Ommen Kloeke (Naturalis) and Bella Struminskaya (Utrecht University) will give examples from their project or research about how to use sensor data and what is needed. Together with the participants, the discussion will then start, what we can learn from each other’s experiences, where are the bottlenecks and what needs to be done to solve them.
DANS contributes to the NCG’s Geo-Information Infrastructure Committee and co-organises this workshop. Data from sensors are a new kind of research data, with their own legal, AVG, and technical challenges, for which good guidelines need to be developed. This workshop helps DANS to better archive and share sensor data.
More information can be found on the NCG website, where participants can also register. The exact programme will be shared after registration. The workshop requires a basic understanding of the Dutch language, but discussions and questions can also be held/asked in English.
