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ICSU/NASAC/ISSC call for pre-proposals: Pathways towards Sustainable African Urban Development
Up to eleven collaborative research projects across Africa will receive funding for research that will explore integrated approaches for sustainable urban development in Africa. As part of the 5-year “Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa” programme,...
Summer School On Urban Data Science
In today's world we have data all around us. With the progress in technology, a large amount of data is collected on a daily basis using different technology. Today’s urban world has ample of data which would be explored, for identifying trends by studying available...
WDS Data Stewardship Award 2018: Call for Nominations Open!
The Call for Nominations for the 2018 WDS Data Stewardship Award is now open until 21 May 2018. This annual prize celebrates the exceptional contributions of early career researchers to the improvement of scientific data stewardship through their (1) engagement with...
Save the date! IDCC19, 4-7 February, Melbourne
The IDCC conference is going down under and it's going to be hot, hot hot! From the 4th to 7th February 2019, Donna McRostie, Anna Shadbolt, Peter Neish and the wonderful team at the University of Melbourne will be hosting the 14th International Digital Curation...
Workshop Applying bioinformatics and data science competency frameworks to ELIXIR Training, 5-6 April 2018, Amsterdam
Date: 5-6 April 2018 (preceded by an optional seminar on April 4) Venue: Amsterdam Science Park Congress Centre, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam Website & registration: Eventbrite page Full...
Improving Reproducibility in Research: The Role of Measurement Science
Venue: National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW Date: 01 May 2018 - 03 May 2018 We live in a world in which it is increasingly easy to collect enormous amounts of data, in which research frequently spans physical, chemical, and...
CODATA will play a major role in the GO TRAIN Implementation Network
Reproduced from the GO FAIR website https://www.go-fair.org/2018/02/08/go-fair-training-go-train-kicked-off/ On 26 January 2018, more than 20 people attended the GO TRAIN kick-off meeting in Leiden (the Netherlands). GO TRAIN is one of three GO FAIR pillars. Hugh...
CODATA Prospectus, 2015-2017 – and Looking Forward to 2018
The Second Edition (2017) of the CODATA Prospectus provides a brief summary of strategy and achievement in 2015-2017: it lays out CODATA's mission and strategy and provides information about the key activities and outputs that contribute to the realisation of this...
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 19 FEBRUARY – Session Proposals Invited for International Data Week, 5-8 November, in Gaborone, Botswana
Following a number of requests, the organising committee has agreed to extend the deadline for Session Proposals for SciDataCon to 23.59 UTC on 19 February. Call for Sessions: Click here Submit Session Proposal: Click here International Data Week = SciDataCon...
Enriching my Learning by Helping Others at the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Schools
Sara El Jadid has been a student then a helper at the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Schools #DataTrieste and #DataSaoPaulo. She has recently blogged about her experience on the Springer Nature Research Data Blog. The CODATA-RDA School for Research Data Science...