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Stop squandering data: make units of measurement machine-readable: CODATA DRUM TG comment article in Nature
The CODATA Task Group on Digital Representation of Units of Measurement (DRUM) and colleagues from the CIPM’s Digital SI Task Group have published a comment article in Nature. ‘Stop squandering data: make units of measurement machine-readable’ describes some of the...
Why attend SciDataCon 2022?
World Data System (WDS) and the Committee on Data (CODATA), both data organisations established by the International Science Council, are announcing a webinar entitled “Why attend SciDataCon 2022?” SciDataCon is a part of International Data Week 2022 and will cover...
The Units Summit @ SciDataCon 2022
The DRUM TG, in collaboration with the CIPM SI Digital Framework TG and the BIPM are please to announce the upcoming “Units Summit” @ SciDataCon and BIPM, June 20th – 23rd, to coincide with meetings at BIPM and with SciDataCon 2022 (one of the two conferences...
GOSC DataIO WG Briefings on Case Studies, Tue 10 May
Colleagues with an interest in data and metadata interoperability, associated or not with the GOSC initiative and the DataIO WG are invited to attend Briefings on Case Studies to be held on Tuesday 10 May in two sessions. GOSC DataIO WG Briefing on Case Studies 1,...
Take advantage of the early bird fee and other discounts applicable for IDW 2022
International Data Week 2022, hosted by the Republic of Korea, is accepting both virtual and onsite registration. The early bird fee was extended till 31 May. See detailed information about ticketing and fees. The international credit card payment gateway is now fully...
Register now: Workshop on Introduction to Spark with R and Lazy evaluation
An interactive workshop for learning the basics of Spark in R and how to easily include lazy evaluation in a data analysis workflow. This session intends to cover the basic concepts about Spark, Map Reduce, lazy evaluation and distributed processing and how this can...
Call for Abstracts for SciDataCon Session, “AI & Reproducibility, Repeatability, and Replicability”
We invite you to submit a paper to our session, "AI & Reproducibility, Repeatability, and Replicability" at the upcoming SciDataCon, part of International Data Week in Seoul, Korea and online (20-23 June 2022). Artificial Intelligence (AI) experimentation has...
Participate now: IUPAC Green Book Survey
The IUPAC Green Book, Quantities, Units, and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, provides a readable compilation of widely used terms and symbols from many sources together with brief understandable definitions. For more...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: May 2022 Edition
Sea levels rising twice as fast as thought in New Zealand Explosive new data shows the sea level is rising twice as fast as previously thought in some parts of Aotearoa, massively reducing the number of times authorities has to respond. The major new projections show...
April 2022: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Activities of the Polar Environment Data Science Center of ROIS-DS, Japan Author: Akira Kadokura, Masaki Kanao, Hironori Yabuki, Yoshimasa Tanaka, Koji Nishimura URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2022-012 Title: Persistent Identification for Conferences Author:...