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Read Now – September 2025: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Enhancing Multiscale Simulation Data Management with Domain Ontologies and an ELN: Addressing Challenges and Implementing Strategies Author: Hafiz Muhammad Noman, Michael Selzer URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2025-028 Title: Robust Machine Learning Algorithmic...
Register Now: Webinar – Harnessing Ocean Data for Coastal Resilience and Blue Economies
Date: 3rd October 2025 Time: 9:00 am to 9:45 am (CET) Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4XviYgkeQmu8XNGlxkijHQ Webinar Description: Oceans are the planet’s largest climate regulator, a source of livelihood for billions, and home to rich...
Call for Papers, Posters & Lightning Talks – FDO Conference 2026
FAIR Digital Objects (FDO) are autonomous information units that virtually bind all information in a machine-actionable way that is required to make data FAIR, including various kinds of metadata and globally unique and resolvable persistent identifiers (PIDs). FDOs...
Read Now – August 2025: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: A Comparative Analysis of Modeling Approaches for the Association of FAIR Digital Objects Operations Author: Nicolas Blumenröhr, Jana Böhm, Philipp Ost, Marco Kulüke, Peter Wittenburg, Christophe Blanchi, Sven Bingert, Ulrich Schwardmann URL:...
Data Privacy in the Southern African Development Community (SADC): An appeal for unity
On 29 August, 14:00 - 15:00 (SAST, UTC+02:00) the CODATA South Africa National Committee is convening a webinar on Data Privacy in the Southern African Development Community (SADC): An appeal for unity. The distinguished speaker is Adv. Dirontsho Mohale, Chief...
Ten Years in the Making: Reflections on the 2025 CODATA-RDA Advanced Workshop on Urban Data Science
27 August 2025 Shaily Gandhi (Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at IT:U), Neema Sumari (Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania), and Felix Emeka Anyiam (University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria) This August 2025, the ICTP in Trieste, Italy, hosted a special edition of the...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: August 2025 Edition
Natural disasters have cost us $162 billion this year. The first half of 2025 marks a new inflection point in the global climate risk landscape. According to leading professional services firm Aon, global insured losses from natural catastrophe events reached $100...
Register to attend the International Symposium on Open Science Clouds (ISOSC) 2025 virtually
Conference: International Symposium on Open Science Clouds 2025 (ISOSC 2025) Time: September 2-4, 2025 Venue: Nanjing University Suzhou Campus, Suzhou, China and virtually Theme: Co-developing Open, Resilient, and Intelligible Research E-infrastructures for Future...
Launch of Kenya National Vaccination and Immunization Program (KeNVIP) portal
By: Prof Joseph Muliaro Wafula The Kenya National Vaccination and Immunization Program (KeNVIP) portal was officially launched on 14 May by Cabinet Secretary Hon Aden Duale of the Ministry of Health. The portal represents a significant milestone in the digitalization...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: CODATA Global Data Ethics & Governance Symposium [18-19 Sept 2025, Durban, South Africa]
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: GLOBAL DATA ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE SYMPOSIUM Hybrid (In-person & Virtual) 18-19 SEPTEMBER 2025 THE RIVERSIDE HOTEL, Duban, SOUTH AFRICA THEME: BUILDING TRUST, PROTECTION, AND ETHICS IN GLOBAL DATA: TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CAPE TOWN GLOBAL...