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Final call for nominations: Digital Preservation Awards 2026 (deadline 5 May)
The Digital Preservation Coalition welcomes nominations for the prestigious Digital Preservation Awards, offering international recognition of achievements by people and organizations who have made significant contributions towards a sustainable future for our digital...
Conference call for Papers: 26-27 November, Johannesburg Business School, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa
An invitation to scholars, industry practitioners and post-graduate students with research interests in the fields of Decision Science, Data Science, Information Science, Information Management, Knowledge Management, Information Systems, and other information studies....
CDIF-4-XAS Implementation Plan
The OSCARS CDIF-4-XAS project is pleased to announce the publication of an extra deliverable (D3) the CDIF-4-XAS Implementation Plan. CDIF-4-XAS Implementation Plan https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19651219 This document describes the first proposal to integrate the...
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...
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...