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Shaping the Future of Cognitively Healthy Aging: A Global Survey Initiative
An initiative building on the activities of the 2023-2025 CODATA Task Group Data-driven social change towards a society promoting cognitively healthy aging is currently gathering expert perspectives on cognitively healthy aging — the ability to maintain cognitive...
Celebrate 50 Years of CESSDA in Bergen: Future-Ready Social Science
This summer marks a remarkable milestone as CESSDA celebrates its 50th anniversary. To mark this occasion, we are thrilled to invite you to the conference "Future-Ready Social Science: Data, Policy, and Impact," taking place from 15–18 June 2026 in Bergen, Norway. We...
Final Days for Standard Registration: Dataverse Community Meeting 2026
Standard Registration deadline for the Dataverse Community Meeting 2026 is fast approaching. Be sure to secure your spot by 15 April to join the DCM2026 at the World Trade Center in Barcelona from 12–15 May. You can register via the following link: Register...
Webinar Today! Dealing with Changing Global Policy Dynamics: Emergency Management and its Impact on Disasters Survivors
Prof. Dr. B. Burcak Basbug, Professor of Statistics and Disaster Science, Middle East Technical University, Ankara-Turkiye, co-chair of the CODATA International Data Policy Committee and of the UNESCO-CODATA Data Policy for Times of Crisis initiative, is speaking in a...
Read Now – March 2026: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Publishing Fine-grained Standardized Metadata – Lessons Learned from Three Research Data Centers Author: Knut Wenzig, Andreas Daniel, Dominique Hansen, Tobias Koberg, Mihaela Tudose URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-013 Title: Building Responsible and...
Call for participation: UNESCO and CODATA survey on open science for data policy for times of crisis
How do organizations handle data in crises? A global survey explores policy implementation aligned with open science. Participate in the survey: https://surveys.unesco.org/UNESCO-CODATA-DPTC The questionnaire takes approximately 10 – 15 minutes to complete. The...
Digital Preservation Coalition draft Carbon Footprint Toolkit now available for comment and testing
Our friends at the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are pleased to share a draft version of their new Carbon Footprint Toolkit<https://docs.google.com/document/d/10cn1XkuxH_i7j5qJZwhjzsKjidS562ivRBJcpA3RFxQ/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.o6jb86yldgs2>, now available...
Water Security Demands a Systems Change and Programmatic Approach
Bapon Fakhruddin, PhD., Climate Investment Principal, Green Climate Fund, Republic of Korea & Chair, CODATA TG FAIR DRR, France has published a piece in ’The Water Diplomat’. Everyone now knows that the climate crisis is a water crisis. As global temperatures...
“Nothing about us without us”: reflections from the CODATA Task Group on Citizen-Generated Data for the SDGs
At IDW2025, a group of speakers from around the world spoke on ‘Bridging Data Gaps with Citizen Science for People and Policy'. Although communities have long been studied within research and had data collected about them, there is growing recognition that communities...
Interested in Citizen Science, SDGs and FAIR data? Join us at the RDA Virtual Plenary on Thursday 19th March 2026 (07:00 – 08:30 UTC)
Globally, communities are monitoring air quality, tracking biodiversity, and mapping disease vectors to fill critical gaps where official monitoring networks fall short. The data collected is powerful, the ambition is real, but the integration into traditional...