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Announcement of the 3rd Digital Belt and Road Conference (DBAR 2018)
Digital Belt and Road Program (DBAR) is a pioneering international venture to share expertise, knowledge, technologies and data to demonstrate the significance of Earth observation and big Earth data applications for large-scale sustainable development. The 3rd...
Call for Proposals, CODATA Task Groups 2018-2020 – Deadline 18 July 2018
CODATA invites proposals for Task Groups to be approved by the 31st CODATA General Assembly which will be held on 9-10 November 2018, in Gaborone, Botswana, following International Data Week 2018, 5-8 November 2018 (comprising our research conference SciDataCon 2018)....
Fosca Giannotti, Director of Research at the Information Science and Technology Institute “A. Faedo” of the National Research Council, to give a keynote at International Data Week 2018
The organisers and programme committee are very pleased to announce that Fosca Giannotti is Director of Research at the Information Science and Technology Institute “A. Faedo” of the National Research Council, will give a keynote presentation at the International Data...
New DDI 3.3 specification available for public review and comment
The DDI Alliance (http://www.ddialliance.org/) is pleased to announce the Public Review of DDI 3.3. This version of the DDI specification includes important updates and new content, including: Classification management (based on GSIM/Neuchatel) Non-survey data...
Elizabeth Marincola, Senior Advisor for Communications and Advocacy at the African Academy of Sciences, to give a keynote at International Data Week 2018
The organisers and programme committee are very pleased to announce that Elizabeth Marincola, Senior Advisor for Communications and Advocacy at the African Academy of Sciences, will give a keynote presentation at the International Data Week 2018, 5-8 November,...
Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, to give a keynote at International Data Week 2018
The organisers and programme committee are very pleased to announce that Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director of the Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and notable thinker on international science matters, will give a keynote presentation at the...
TWO WEEKS TO GO! International Data Week – SciDataCon Proposals for Papers and Posters, Deadline 25 June
International Data Week will take place in Gaborone, Botswana on 5-8 November 2018 with a number of related events before and after. In an integrated programme it combines SciDataCon, the international conference on issues of data in research and the 12th RDA Plenary...
Turning FAIR Data into Reality – Report and Action Plan Consultation until 5 August
The European Commission's Expert Group on FAIR Data, chaired by Simon Hodson, CODATA Executive Director, published the interim report 'Turning FAIR Data into Reality' and the interim 'FAIR Data Action Plan' on 11 June 2018 at the Second EOSC Summit in Brussels....
Reliable ICT Infrastructure a condition for research data sharing – African NRENs to play an important role
Whether it will be called a guideline, a roadmap or a framework – all participants during the AOSP ICT Infrastructure meeting held on 14 May 2018 in Pretoria, South Africa were in agreement that a document guiding African countries in preparing ICT infrastructures in...
Research Data Winter School: 12–15 JUNE 2018, THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, BRISBANE
Supported by the Theo Murphy Initiative, the Australian Academy of Science, in association with Committee on Data of the International Council for Science (CODATA) and the Research Data Alliance (RDA), have developed a Research Data Science Winter School program...