KRISS held the International Symposium of Standard Reference Data (ISSRD) 2018 from September 11 to 12 in Seoul, Korea.

At this year’s ISSRD, under the main theme “For the Value of Reliable Data”, over 100 experts in standard reference and data science were invited to discuss the value expansion through improvement of data reliability and the role of reference standard and measurement standard.

Especially in the plenary session on first day, Dr. Anne. L. Plant and Dr. Rober Hanisch from NIST delivered invited talks on data science. Also, there was a round-table conference on data standard with NIST, NCSRD(National Center for Standard Reference Data), KISTI(Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), NIA(National Information society Agency) and KDATA(Korea DATA Agency) in order to share further related issues and policies.