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TOMORROW! Glacier Adaptation and financing, data dimensions: Register for webinar on 4 March!
Date: 3rd March 2026, Time: 9:00 am to 9:45 am CEST Moderator : Shaily Gandhi Speakers: Anil Mishra Dhiraj Pradhananga Dr. Miriam Jackson Dr. Bapon Fakhruddin As we mark 2025 as the “Year of the Glacier,” the urgency to address the rapid retreat of these critical ice...
Read Now – February 2026: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: FIP Check: A Rubric-Based Tool for Assessing FAIR Implementation Profiles and Enabling Resources Author: Sungha Kang, John Graybeal, Barbara Magagna, Erik Schultes, Nancy Hoebelheinrich, Chris Erdmann, Ismael Kherroubi Garcia, Julianne Christopher, Christine R....
Beyond Articles: Rethinking Diamond Open Access for a Data-Driven Research Future
What would it take for Diamond OA to evolve into a holistic, equitable, and data-rich scholarly ecosystem — one that meaningfully includes early-career researchers? More specifically, what kinds of alignment are required between policy, funding, research assessment,...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: February 2026 Edition
Why Infrastructure Must Shift from Disaster Recovery to Resilience in a High-Risk World Asia and the Pacific face over US $170 billion in annual disaster losses as infrastructure built for past climates fails under modern risks. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) calls...
Final Reminder: deadline approaching for poster submissions to DCM2026
Final reminder to submit a poster for the Dataverse Community Meeting 2026, 12-15 May, World Trade Center, Barcelona. The deadline is February 16, 2026 (note that the deadline for presentations has passed): https://dcm2026.com/call-for-papers/ Posters could cover one...
Towards a data strategy for the Fifth International Polar Year (IPY5)
Planning of the IPY5 (2032-33) is underway and CODATA is excited to be a member of the IPY Planning Group. CODATA has a keen interest in ensuring that IPY5 is a success and marks another step forward in data stewardship. To that end, an IPY5 Data Task Group to develop...
Read Now – January 2026: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Author Once, Publish Everywhere: Portable Metadata Authoring with the CEDAR Embeddable Editor Author: Martin J. O’Connor, Marcos Martínez-Romero, Attila L. Egyedi, Mete U. Akdogan, Michael V. Dorf, Mark A. Musen URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2026-002...
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 3 FEBRUARY: CFP Dataverse 2026 Annual Meeting from May 12th–15th, 2026, in Barcelona, Spain
The website is now live - https://dcm2026.com/ -, and we have opened the Call for Papers. We invite you to submit your abstract for a presentation or poster on the conference themes by February 3, 2026. Quick links to: - Important Dates and general...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: January 2026 Edition
The pulse of the planet The explosion of data offers new ways to understand the economy—and change what gets measured, not just how. Digital technologies are redefining how we see and manage the global economy. As Kenneth Cukier writes in Finance & Development,...
TOMORROW, 28 JAN! CODATA India National Committee and OT-ViRARe Task Group Event: FAIR and Reproducible Structural Biology
The upcoming workshop on "FAIR and Reproducible Structural Biology: Methods, Workflows, and Assessment,” brings together scientists, data experts, and policy communities to link AI for Science, FAIR data, reproducibility, and responsible research assessment. Convened...