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Linking variable description to machine-ready datasets
There is currently a lot of interest in how we maximise increase the effectiveness of datasets for AI training and fine-tuning through metadata. This led to the development of the ML Croissant metadata specification, “an open community-built standardized metadata...
TOMORROW: AuScope Seminar on WorldFAIR+ and CDIF
Join us online for a special AuScope seminar to discuss WorldFAIR+ and the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM AEDT / 00:00-01:00 UTC Register here: https://bit.ly/AuScope-Seminar-CDIF-WorldFAIRplus Speakers: Rebecca...
CODATA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) announce the updated 2025 CODATA Research Data Management Terminology (RDMT)
Paris, October 2025. CODATA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) are delighted to announce the publication of the updated CODATA Research Data Management Terminology (RDMT) 2025. The Terminology is open to the public and free to use via the ARDC’s Research...
From launch to action: operationalising UNESCO’s open science data policies guidance for crises
With the aim of contributing to the development of data policy pathways for crisis preparedness, response, and recovery, three companion resources on ‘Developing data policies for times of crisis facilitated by open science’ were launched on 4 June 2025 at UNESCO...
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...