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Call for Applications – World Social Science Fellows – Big Data in Urban Contexts
CODATA is partnering the International Social Science Council in organising the World Social Science Fellows Seminar on Big Data in an Urban Context, 30 November to 4 December 2015, Xiamen, China. ISSC invites applications from outstanding early career social...
Mark Thorley Appointed to the Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the Conduct of Science
Mark Thorley, a member of the CODATA Executive Committee and Chair of the CODATA Data Policy Committee, has been invited to become a member of the International Council of Science's Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the Conduct of Science (CFRS). In a post on...
Preparation Underway of the Second Edition of the Atlas of the Earth’s Magnetic Field
Through a workshop organised with CODATA support and hosted at ICSU and a series of working meetings at the General 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), the Task Group on Earth and Space Science Data Interoperability has...
Elizabeth Griffin: “The Past is an Essential Component of the Future”
In a recently published blog post on the "Common Future Under Climate Change" conference site, the Chair of the CODATA Data at Risk Task Group underlines the importance of old, analogue data for our understanding of climate change :'Rescuing historical scientific...
CODATA and WSIS+10 at the UN General Assembly
Later today (19.00 UTC, Thursday 2 July 2015), Professor Liu Chuang, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Secretary to the CODATA PASTD Task Group will address the United Nations General...
Data at Risk and Data Rescue
The CODATA Data at Risk Task Group (DAR-TG) has suddenly got much larger! It has now become affiliated to the Research Data Alliance, through the formation of an RDA Interest Group for “Data Rescue”. The combined groups will share the benefits of the two supporting...
When are Old Data New Data?
The European Geosciences Union General Assembly, in April, saw the International Data Rescue Award in the Geosciences given to British Macrofossils Online, a Jisc-funded project from the British Geological Survey to create a fully electronic catalogue of all the...
Science and the Road to Transformation: Side Events to ‘Our Common Future under Climate Change’
ICSU and the ICSU World Data System have each organised side events to the Our Common Future Under Climate Change Conference, Paris, 7-10 July 2015. Science and the Road to Transformation: Opportunities in the post-2015 Global Climate Regime The International Council...
Geoffrey Boulton, ANDS Webinar: Open Data and the Future of Science
CODATA President, Geoffrey Boulton, FRS, recently gave a webinar on 'Open Data and the Future of Science', organised by the Australian National Data Service. The presentation slides are available from the ANDS website. This follows a public lecture on Open Data, Big...
Polar Data Forum II, Abstract Deadline 1 July
Polar Data Forum II: International Collaboration for Advancing Polar Data Access and Preservation 27-29 October 2015, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Registration is Open! Abstracts Deadline, 1 July 2015 Notification of abstract acceptance: 31 July 2015 Early Bird...