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Message from the CODATA President, Barend Mons
The field of research data and associated services is in a rapid - and epoch-making - phase transition from a data sparse to a data-overloaded ecosystem. Many national and international efforts are underway to try and deal with the enormous challenges posed by...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: November 2019 Edition
UN High Commissioner for Refugees: Climate Change and Displacement Climate change and natural disasters can add to and worsen the threats that force people to flee across international borders. The interplay between climate, conflict, poverty and persecution greatly...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: October 2019 Edition
"If you ask us for ideas, act on them” - Youth call out UN, world leaders on climate actionThe Youth Climate Action Summit brought youth climate champions together from more than 140 countries and territories to a platform to share their solutions on the global...
October 2019: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Different Preservation Levels: The Case of Scholarly Digital Editions Author: Elias Oltmanns, Tim Hasler, Wolfgang Peters-Kottig, Heinz-Günter Kuper URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-051 Title: A Method for Extending Ontologies with Application to the...
IASSIST 2020 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Conference website: https://iassist2020.org/Conference hashtag: #IASSIST20The 46th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden from May 19 to 22, 2020.Data by...
Call for Application – VizAfrica 2019 Botswana Summer School Program Deadline: Nov 1, 2019
Date: 11-15 November 2019 Venue: Department of Computer Science, University of Botswana, Botswana Objective: To introduce learners to data analytics and visualization Learning Outcome: At the end of the course the learners will be able to apply data analytics and...
REGISTRATION CLOSES TODAY AND DRAFT PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE! CODATA-Helsinki Workshop on FAIR RDM in Institutions, 20-21 October.
Register Now for CODATA-Helsinki 2019 Workshop on FAIR RDM in Institutions: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/codata-helsinki-2019-workshop-on-fair-rdm-in-institutions-registration-66997233529 Draft Program is...
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 OCTOBER – Call for Applications – The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science School, Pretoria 13- 24 January 2020
In response to a number of requests, we have agreed to extend the deadline for applications for The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science School, Pretoria 13- 24 January 2020 to 31 October 2019. University of Pretoria – Department of Information Science in collaboration...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: September 2019 Edition
Walloped by heatwave, Greenland sees massive ice meltThe heatwave that smashed high-temperature records in five European countries is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island's ice sheet and causing massive ice loss in the Arctic. How investing...
DEADLINE APPROACHNG, 1 OCTOBER: Applications for CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, San José, Costa Rica, 2-13 December 2019
This school provides early career researchers (at MSc-level to 3 years after their PhD) from the Latin American Region with the necessary set of foundational data science skills to enable them to analyse their data in an efficient and effective manner for the 21st...