TY - JOUR
T1 - Meaningful Big Data Integration for a Global COVID-19 Strategy
AU - Pita Costa, Joao
AU - Grobelnik, Marko
AU - Fuart, Flavio
AU - Stopar, Luka
AU - Epelde, Gorka
AU - Fischaber, Scott
AU - Poliwoda, Piotr
AU - Rankin, Debbie
AU - Wallace, Jonathan
AU - Black, Michaela
AU - Bond, Raymond
AU - Mulvenna, Maurice
AU - Weston, Dale
AU - Carlin, Paul
AU - Bilbao, Roberto
AU - Nikolic, Gorana
AU - Shi, Xi
AU - De Moor, Bart
AU - Pikkarainen, Minna
AU - Pääkkönen, Jarmo
AU - Staines, Anthony
AU - Connolly, Regina
AU - Davis, Paul
AU - Pajula, Juha
AU - Umer, Adil
N1 - Juha Pajula & Adil Umer are acknowled as authors in the erratum.
PY - 2020/11/15
Y1 - 2020/11/15
N2 - With the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the novel Meaningful Integration of Data Analytics and Services (MIDAS) platform quickly demonstrates its value, relevance and transferability to this new global crisis. The MIDAS platform enables the connection of a large number of isolated heterogeneous data sources, and combines rich datasets including open and social data, ingesting and preparing these for the application of analytics, monitoring and research tools. These platforms will assist public health author ities in: (i) better understanding the disease and its impact; (ii) monitoring the different aspects of the evolution of the pandemic across a diverse range of groups; (iii) contributing to improved resilience against the impacts of this global crisis; and (iv) enhancing preparedness for future public health emergencies. The model of governance and ethical review, incorporated and defined within MIDAS, also addresses the complex privacy and ethical issues that the developing pandemic has highlighted, allowing oversight and scrutiny of more and richer data sources by users of the system.
AB - With the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the novel Meaningful Integration of Data Analytics and Services (MIDAS) platform quickly demonstrates its value, relevance and transferability to this new global crisis. The MIDAS platform enables the connection of a large number of isolated heterogeneous data sources, and combines rich datasets including open and social data, ingesting and preparing these for the application of analytics, monitoring and research tools. These platforms will assist public health author ities in: (i) better understanding the disease and its impact; (ii) monitoring the different aspects of the evolution of the pandemic across a diverse range of groups; (iii) contributing to improved resilience against the impacts of this global crisis; and (iv) enhancing preparedness for future public health emergencies. The model of governance and ethical review, incorporated and defined within MIDAS, also addresses the complex privacy and ethical issues that the developing pandemic has highlighted, allowing oversight and scrutiny of more and richer data sources by users of the system.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094577596&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MCI.2020.3019898
DO - 10.1109/MCI.2020.3019898
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85094577596
SN - 1556-603X
VL - 15
SP - 51
EP - 61
JO - IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
JF - IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
IS - 4
M1 - 9225216
ER -