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Held on 27-28 October, in Salzburg and online, the 2023 CODATA General Assembly elected a strong and diverse Executive Committee and approved eight Task Groups and one Working Group. The full summary of the General Assembly, including presentations, results of voting...

The membership of CODATA elected a new President at the CODATA General Assembly of 27 and 28 October, online and in Salzburg. Mercè Crosas has been the head of Computational Social Sciences at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre since 2023. From 2021 to 2022, she was...

The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and the Committee on Data (CODATA) have formalised a strategic partnership through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), underlining their joint commitment to advancing interdisciplinary...

Spanning research, government and industry, this 2-day hybrid event will offer opportunities to discuss approaches to using, developing, publishing and maintaining vocabularies. Date and time Tue, 14 Nov 2023 9:00 AM - Wed, 15 Nov 2023 5:00 PM AEDT Location In-person...

The WorldFAIR project has had a number of sessions accepted for International Data Week 2023, an event which incorporates the Research Data Alliance 21st Plenary Meeting, the SciDataCon conference, and some IDW shared plenary sessions. Here is an initial overview...

Our upcoming CODATA / DDI training webinar ‘The DDI Standards and Technology: Adapting to Change‘ will take place today, Tuesday 17 October at 1000 EDT / 1400 UTC / 1600 CEST.  The event will last approximately 90 minutes. Registration is closing soon – please...

Webinar, 11 October: 'Why attend IDW2023?'  International Data Week 2023 - The Festival of Data - will take place on 23-26 October 2023 in Salzburg, Austria and online. IDW 2023 will be hosted by the University of Salzburg through its Data Science and Geoinformatics...

Running Dry Racing Against Time to Secure Our Water Future Reviewing our progress in 2023, we need to catch up to our 2030 targets, particularly in water resources management. Despite challenges, the 2023 UN Water Conference and World Water Week have made strides...

Title: RDM+PM Checklist: Towards a Measure of Your Institution’s Preparedness for the Effective Planning of Research Data Management Author: Matthew I. Bellgard, Ryan Bennett, Yvette Wyborn, Chris Williams, Leonie Barner, Nikolajs Zeps URL:...

We invite the statistical and metadata communities to submit contributions for the first Conference On Smart Metadata for Official Statistics 2024 (COSMOS 2024), to be held on 11-12 April 2024 in Paris, France. The COSMOS conference is a place where the official...