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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...
“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...
Understanding contemporary digital preservation practice: the EOSC EDEN project reports survey findings
By Laura Molloy, CODATA Research Lead With rising threats to the existence of essential data resources, and mendacious contesting of the historical record, the current moment clearly demonstrates the critical role of high-quality digital preservation practitioners,...
Bridging the Glacier Finance Gap in the Decade of Cryospheric Sciences
Bapon Fakhruddin, CODATA TG-FAIR DRR and Shaily Gandhi, IT:U Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria On March 3, 2026, the FAIR Data for Disaster Risk Research working group of CODATA convened a webinar titled “Glacier Adaptation and Financing,” bringing...
CDIF4EOSC: watch this space!
CODATA is very pleased to communicate that we are well-advanced with the Grant Agreement Preparation process with the European Commission for the recently approved proposal CDIF4EOSC: Developing and implementing the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework for EOSC....
Sustaining Research Data Capacity: Reflections from a CODATA Journey (2017–2025)
Felix Emeka Anyiam (Initial Co-Lead CODATA Connect 2019-2024) In this post, Felix Emeka Anyiam, who was Initial Co-Lead of CODATA Connect, our Early Career Researcher initiative, from 2019-2024, reflects on his experiences over eight years of participating in CODATA...
DCM2026: Preliminary Programme; Early Bird Registration extended till 9 March
Preliminary programme for the Dataverse Community Meeting 2026 has now been published. See https://dcm2026.com/preliminary-programme/. DCM2026 will take place on 12-15 May at the World Trade Center in Barcelona. Take advantage of the Early Bird registration fee, till...