A Better Future for Science? Reflections from Beijing
Dr. Pragya Chaube is Assistant Professor at the UPES University, India. She is a co-chair of the CODATA Connect Early Career Network and co-founder Open Science South Asia Network (OSSAN). Pragya’s participation in the International Science Council’s (ISC) Midterm...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: October 2026 Edition
From local resilience to systemic risk governance Households can prepare for floods, but they cannot decide where development happens upstream, how regional power networks are protected, or whether capital keeps flowing into hazard-prone land. Writing for...
Strong demand for crisis data checklists but few in place, UNESCO and CODATA survey finds
Read the full article on the UNESCO Website. Global survey report on crisis data policies facilitated by open science Strong demand for crisis data checklists but few in place, UNESCO and CODATA survey finds Most organisations working on disasters, crises and...
FAIR Digital Objects Forum Upcoming Webinars
The FAIR Digital Objects Forum is organising a series of webinars exploring various aspects of the endeavour to FDOs as a unified, technology-independent framework for representing and managing digital and physical resources in a machine-actionable manner. In the...
Read Now – September 2026: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: What Do We Mean by ‘Version’? Actionable Guidelines for the Versioning of Data Author: Jens Klump, Lesley Wyborn, Mingfang Wu, Dorothea Strecker, Heinz Pampel, Laura Rothfritz URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-037 Title: Toward a Standardized Framework for...
Read Now – Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: September 2026 Edition
Nepal floods: how measuring snow in the Himalayas could help avoid future disasters The August 2026 glacial flood that killed more than 1,000 people on the Nepal–Tibet border has renewed urgent calls to close a critical knowledge gap: scientists still do not know...
CDIF DCAT-Syntax Core and Discovery Profiles: Development Plan
CDIF DCAT-Syntax Core and Discovery Profiles: Development Plan: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22942627 This document is the first in an irregular series of updates on development plans for the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF). It briefly outlines the...
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER! An AI-ready, data engineering playbook for FAIR Integration in EOSC and beyond: CDIF4EOSC Workshop, London, Friday 9 October
Registration will close at 09:00 UTC Friday 25 September. Register here to attend in person: https://forms.gle/CSmL6kcxJerWPPuV7 In person registration is open for this informative and interactive workshop about the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) and...
Career Opportunities at CODATA! Deadline approaching, 28 September
Excellent opportunities for experienced professionals seeking a full-time, fixed-term role and eager to work in an innovative international team of experts to advance science and the use of data to address today’s global, multifaceted societal challenges. CODATA is...
CDIF Version 1.1 Now Final
After the initial release of the CDIF version 1.1 Profiles in June, and a subsequent round of testing and implementation, they have now been finalised. The release will henceforth be stable, with all further issues and features addressed in subsequent versions. The...