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Governance of domain specific data and metadata standards to support FAIR Data
By: Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma On May 26, 2016, I attended the Workshop on Research Data Management [http://www.iucr.org/resources/data/dddwg/new-orleans-workshop#gabb2] at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association, New Orleans, LA, USA and gave...
Research Fellowship on OpenCitations [Deadline: 7 August 2017]
The OpenCitations Corpus (OCC, http://opencitations.net) is a new repository of open citation data harvested from the scholarly literature. As the Co-Directors of the OpenCitations Corpus, we are writing to let you know that we have a Research Fellowship available in...
Dryad and DANS partner for long-term preservation of rich research data repository
Dryad and DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) announce a new collaboration to ensure long-term preservation and accessibility to curated scientific data. The Dryad DigitalRepository makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Over...
The Digital Revolution and the Future of Science: Jisc Futures Article
Geoffrey Boulton writes the first in a series of articles from Jisc on research in the age of open science Information and knowledge have always been essential drivers of social progress, and the technologies through which knowledge is acquired, stored and...
Announcing some of the eminent CODATA 2017 Keynote Speakers
Four of the eminent keynote speakers at CODATA 2017 'Global Challenges and Data-Driven Research’ have been announced: http://codata2017.gcras.ru/ Barbara Ryan Secretariat Director of the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) located in Geneva,...
EDISON Workshop: Data Science – from infrastructure to skills for insight and value (29 August 2017, Amsterdam)
The EDISON project invites participation in a 1-day workshop at the Amsterdam Science Park on 29th August 2017 to explore how data science competences and skills can be bring value to data produced by European Research Infrastructures and what are the challenges with...
Open community session: contribute to the FAIR data expert group
The European Commission’s FAIR data expert group is hosting its first open community session on Monday 3rd July from 14:00-16:00 CEST. You may already have seen the call for contributions and the public GitHub. We realise GitHub may be an unfamiliar platform for some,...
Open Community Session: contribute to the FAIR data expert group – 26th July, 2017
The European Commission’s FAIR data expert group is hosting its second open community session on Wednesday 26th July from 10:00-12:00 CEST. You may already have seen the call for contributions and the public GitHub. The aim of these open community sessions is to...
CODATA 2017: Submission and Early Bird Registration Deadline Extended to 28 July
Following a very large number of requests from those organising sessions and planning to submit papers to CODATA 2017 'Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science’, 8-13 October 2017, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, the conference organisers have agreed to extend the deadline...
Call for Suggestions and Contributions on Implementing the FAIR Data Principles: EC Expert Group on Turning FAIR Data into Reality
The European Commission has established an Expert Group on Turning FAIR Data into Reality (E03464) which will run until Spring 2018. This Group is pleased to announce a public consultation to invite suggestions and contributions on implementing the FAIR data...