Support of the U.S. National Committee for the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)

在科学全球化的同时，信息和数据处理技术及其用于科学目的的速度和复杂性也在迅速扩大。这些领域的发展使大规模科学计划的规划和实施成为可能。反过来，这类程序往往需要复杂的数据处理和处理技术。鉴于许多大型科学计划的多边性，科学数据的处理、处理和传输本身就是一项重大的国际事业，对这些大型计划至关重要。科学和技术数据委员会(CODATA)是一个非政府、多边机构，隶属于国际科学联盟理事会(科联理事会)，其主要目标是促进全世界就与科学数据有关的问题进行交流。与国际科学理事会大家庭的其他成员一样，CODATA由非政府的国家成员组织组成。国家科学院(NAS)在美国履行这一职能。在过去，NAS支持美国参与CODATA的请求仅限于支付会费，由NSF、NIST和美国能源部共同分担。NAS为了提升美国的参与度，建立了一个类似于指导美国参与ICSU工会的CODATA美国全国委员会(USNC)。NSF被要求支付美国CODATA年度会费的三分之一，并为向ICSU提出关于获取数据及其在国际地圈-生物圈计划委员会(IGBP)中的作用的建议提供支持。

The globalization of science is occurring in parallel with a rapid expansion in the speed and sophistication of information and data handling technologies, and their use for scientific purposes. Developments in these areas permit the planning and execution of large scale scientific programs. Such programs, in turn, frequently require sophisticated data handling and processing techniques. In view of the multilateral character of many large scale scientific programs, the handling, processing, and transmission of scientific data has a major international enterprise in its own right, one that is vital to those large scale programs. The Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) is a non governmental, multilateral body, affiliated with the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), whose principal objective is to facilitate worldwide communication on problems related to scientific data. Like other members of the ICSU family, CODATA is comprised of non governmental National Member Organizations. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) fulfills that function in the United States. In the past, NAS's request to support US participation in CODATA has been limited to payment of dues, shared jointly by NSF, NIST, and DOE. The NAS, in order to upgrade US participation, established a U.S. National Committee (USNC) for CODATA similar to those that guide U.S. participation in the ICSU unions. NSF is being asked to pay one-third of the US annual dues for CODATA and to provide support for the development of recommendations to ICSU concerning access to data and its role in the Commission on International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP).