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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...
Professor B. Burçak Başbuğ and Professor Virginia Murray appointed interim co-chairs of CODATA’s International Data Policy Committee
The CODATA Officers and Executive Committee are pleased to announce that Professor B. Burçak Başbuğ and Professor Virginia Murray have been appointed as interim co-chairs of the CODATA International Data Policy Committee (IDPC). Burçak and Virginia are committed to...
Read Now – December 2025: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Mapping Research Data at the University of Bologna Author: Chiara Basalti, Giulia Caldoni, Sara Coppini, Bianca Gualandi, Mario Marino, Francesca Masini, Silvio Peroni URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2025-038 Title: Benchmarking Tabular Data Synthesis:...
Read Now – Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: November and December 2025 Edition
Glaciers to Farms (G2F) Regional Program: Advancing Climate Resilience & Sustainable Development in Central and West Asia Glacier systems in the Pamir and Tien Shan ranges are retreating rapidly; projections indicate over 50 per cent of glacier volume could be...