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FOUR WEEKS TO GO! SciDataCon 2023 Call for Sessions, Presentations and Posters
We invite session proposals as well as abstracts for individual presentations and posters at International Data Week’s SciDataCon 2023: A Festival of Data taking place 23 - 26 October in Salzburg and partially also virtually. Please note that in contrast to...
Registration Open: GOSC SDG-13 CS Workshop, 16-18 May 2023, Bangkok, Thailand
We are excited to announce that the Global Open Science Cloud (GOSC) SDG-13 Case Study will organise a hybrid workshop on 16-18 May 2023 in Bangkok and online. Online Registration is free and is now open for all GOSC members and relevant...
Information webinar on SciDataCon and International Data Week, Friday 14 April, 12:00 UTC: Register Now!
Register now for the information webinar on SciDataCon and International Data Week: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcu2qrT0tE9a4WA9_TesoHU2Owo-oCnbQ Are you interested in learning more about SciDataCon, the international conference on data for research...
Optimising Your Data Description for Integration and Reuse: DDI Cross-Domain Integration (DDI-CDI) workshop 24 March – recording and presentations now available
The goal of the DDI-Cross-Domain Integration (DDI-CDI) workshop on 24 March 2023 was to explain the mechanism employed by DDI-CDI and how it can most easily be leveraged to enhance the reusability of research data. Sixty colleagues attended this hybrid workshop on 24...
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
We are excited to announce that the International Training Workshop on Open Science and SDGs 2023 is now open for application! As a feast of knowledge sharing, this year’s onsite training will be arranged in Beijing, China, on 28 August - 8 September, 2023. This...
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...