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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...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: March 2023 Edition
National Mapping Efforts Support Government at All Levels Efforts to map data at a national level can help state and local government agencies better serve constituents — especially where health and safety are concerned. One such effort is a place-based tool from the...
CODATA Statement on the February 2023 Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
Resilience and Trust in Turkey & Syria Why data matters in the face of human tragedy A CODATA statement of support Paris, 1 March 2023 As members of the International Science Council (ISC)’s Committee on Data (CODATA), we express our heartfelt support for the...
New from WorldFAIR! Cultural Heritage Mapping Report: ‘Practices and policies supporting Cultural Heritage image sharing platforms’ – out now
New WorldFAIR Project Deliverable 13.1 'Cultural Heritage Mapping Report: Practices and Policies supporting Cultural Heritage image sharing platforms’ outlines current practices guiding online digital image sharing by institutions charged with providing care and...
Towards a FAIRer World: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to address global challenges – 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;...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: February 2023 Edition
New Article Explores Climate-Related Disasters and Mobility Data A recent publication outlines how weather events are becoming more dangerous due to climate change, and often lead to communities being displaced temporarily, or even permanently, which can have serious...
New from WorldFAIR: Cross-national Social Sciences survey FAIR implementation case studies report
New from the WorldFAIR project (https://worldfair-project.eu/), this report provides an overview of the data harmonisation practices of comparative (cross-national) social surveys, through case studies of: (1) the European Social Survey (ESS) and (2) a satellite...
January 2023: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Data Management Plans: Implications for Automated Analyses Author: Ngoc-Minh Pham , Heather Moulaison-Sandy, Bradley Wade Bishop, Hannah Gunderman URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2023-002 Title: Making Drone Data FAIR Through a Community-Developed Information...