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Workshop, ‘The WorldFAIR Project’s cross-domain interoperability framework’, 20 March: slides and recording now available
We were delighted to welcome sixty-two highly engaged participants to our hybrid workshop, ‘The WorldFAIR Project’s cross-domain interoperability framework’ in Göteborg on 20 March 2023. Our goal was to describe the reasoning behind the development of the...
Apply now: The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science – South Africa. Deadline – 31 March 2023
Online & Self-paced: May – June 2023 This online school provides early-career African/South American researchers (M-level to postdoc) and professionals with the foundational data science skills, which include technical skills and responsible research practices, to...
International Training Workshop on Open Science and SDGs 2023
The application for the International Training Workshop on Open Science and SDGs 2023 has closed. As a feast of knowledge sharing, this year’s onsite training will be arranged in Beijing, China, on 28 August - 8 September, 2023. This years’ edition of the training...
Programme published: Towards a FAIRer World symposium at UNESCO, Paris, and virtual – 29 March 2023
Towards a FAIRer World Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to address global challenges A Symposium co-organized by UNESCO, International Science Council (ISC) Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS) UNESCO, Paris and Virtual;...
Register now! ‘Statistical Agencies Using DDI Metadata Standards: Promoting Transparency and Reusability of Data’. Online, 14 April 2023
The second event of the 2023 series of CODATA – DDI Alliance webinars will take place on 14 April at 10:00-11:30 EDT / 14.00-15:30 UTC / 16:00-17:30 CEST. *Register here to attend!* Statistical agencies are seeing a much more federated and complex data ecosystem...
REGISTRATION CLOSING SOON: The DDI Variable Cascade: Describing Data to Optimize Reusability and Comparison. Thu 9 March 2023. Online, free
In the social, behavioural, and economic sciences, data is often described as sets of ‘variables’ – essentially the columns in a table or the answers, respondent-by-respondent, to a question in a survey. The term ‘variable’ is employed by researchers and data managers...
SciDataCon 2023: deadline for submitting sessions and presentations EXTENDED
UPDATE on SciDataCon 2023 The deadline for submitting proposals and abstracts for sessions and individual papers for the upcoming SciDataCon 2023 is being extended from 31 March 2023 to 15 May 2023. Please note that the deadline will not be extended again; plan...
NEW from the WorldFAIR project: An assessment of the Ocean Data priority areas for development and implementation roadmap. WorldFAIR Report D11.1
A new publication is now available from the WorldFAIR project: 'An assessment of the Ocean Data priority areas for development and implementation roadmap’, produced by Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, and leader of the...
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN: The DDI Variable Cascade: Describing Data to Optimize Reusability and Comparison. Thu 9 March 2023. Online, free.
In the social, behavioural, and economic sciences, data is often described as sets of ‘variables’ – essentially the columns in a table or the answers, respondent-by-respondent, to a question in a survey. The term ‘variable’ is employed by researchers and data managers...
Call for Participation in a new Working Group on Image Sharing Practices in Cultural Heritage
Are you a professional working in the Cultural Heritage sector, interested in exploring how your institution or research area could improve the findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of the digital images you collect and create? The DRI is...