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Webinar on Data Quality: Thinking about Quality and DDI Metadata
Data quality is a topic which is often discussed and attracts a lot of interest, but the way in which it is approached varies widely. This, our fourth webinar of the 2021 series took place on 18 November and examined different approaches in the use of metadata for...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: November 2021 Edition
Youth set stage for Americans and Caribbean Regional Platform Young people from across the Americas and the Caribbean have asked for a greater role in preparing and implementing policies to reduce disaster risk in one of the most hazard-prone regions of the...
October 2021: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Towards Globally Unique Identification of Physical Samples: Governance and Technical Implementation of the IGSN Global Sample Number Author: Jens Klump, Kerstin Lehnert, Damian Ulbricht, Anusuriya Devaraju, Kirsten Elger, Dirk Fleischer, Sarah Ramdeen, Lesley...
TOMORROW at Virtual SciDatCon 2021: Closing Plenary Session ‘Organisational Interoperability is Critical for Data Interoperability’ – 28 October 2021
Tomorrow is the last day of Virtual SciDataCon 2021. We close the conference with a plenary session. Organisational Interoperability is Critical for Data Interoperability and Virtual SciDataCon Closing Session, Thursday 28 October, 11:00-13:00 UTC: REGISTER FOR THIS...
TOMORROW at Virtual SciDatCon 2021: Global Open Science and Supporting FAIR – 27 October 2021
Tomorrow, Weds 27 October is the penultimate day of Virtual SciDataCon 2021. We hope you have enjoyed the sessions and have been able to follow the themes of interest. SciDataCon will close on Thursday 28 October, 11:00-13:00 UTC, with a Plenary Session exploring...
TODAY at Virtual SciDatCon 2021: Core Interoperability, Supporting FAIR and new directions for CODATA and WDS
We are into the last few days of SciDataCon 2021: only three days left, don’t miss out! On Tuesday 26 October, there will be three strands. This includes the final session in our exploration of components of Core Interoperability, looking at interoperability for...
CODATA and WDS Strategic Sessions: Virtual SciDataCon 2021 Strand
For the final announcement of thematic strands at Virtual SciDataCon 2021, we would like to draw your attention to a set of sessions exploring strategic issues and new directions for CODATA and WDS, the two data organisations of the International Science Council that...
Supporting FAIR Research: Virtual SciDataCon 2021 Strand
In the final week of Virtual SciDataCon 2021, we see the continuation of the strand on Core Interoperability and two new strands. The first of these covers ’Supporting FAIR Research’, including emerging Research Infrastructure and various activities to support...
TOMORROW at Virtual SciDatCon 2021: Data Policy and Data Stewardship – 24 October 2021
Virtual SciDataCon 2021 Day Six (Mon 19 October), there are two themes: the strand Exploring Core Interoperability continues with an extremely important double session on ‘FAIR Vocabularies’, while the strand on Data for the SDGs concludes with three sessions,...
TOMORROW at Virtual SciDatCon 2021: Data Policy and Data Stewardship – 22 October 2021
We’re coming to the end of the first week of Virtual SciDataCon 2021. There have been some wonderful sessions and we hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have. On Day Five, there are two themes. We have another of the very strong theme of data for this SDGs, on...