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EXTENSION TO SCIDATACON 2016 DEADLINES: Programme Committee and Session Proposals
Following a number of requests, it has been decided to extend the two important deadlines for SciDataCon 2016. Invitation for Programme Committee Candidates / Nominations: DEADLINE 15 FEBRUARY 2016 The SciDataCon 2016 Programme Committee will play a key role in...
Call for Nominations for CODATA Officers and Executive Committee Members: Deadline 1 April 2016
Help CODATA deliver on its strategy to mobilise the data revolution for research! The CODATA strategy comprises three elements: promoting open data principles, policy and practices; advancing the frontiers of data science and building data capacity, particularly in...
Call for Candidates for the SciDataCon 2016 Programme Committee
Convened by CODATA and the World Data System (WDS), interdisciplinary bodies of the International Council for Science (ICSU), SciDataCon 2016 is a scientific research conference that will advance the frontiers of data in research. This means addressing a range of...
CODATA Webinar: Data Accessibility Benchmark Organizational Self-Assessment Tool
CODATA will be running a webinar on a Data Accessibility Benchmark Organizational Self-Assessment Tool developed by COINAtlantic and Dalhousie University. The presenter will be Andrew Sherin, Director, Secretariat, COINAtlantic. In an effort to cater to different time...
Data Science Journal Special Collection for SciDataCon 2016
Data Science Journal is pleased to announce that it will be publishing the high profile special collection of papers from SciDataCon 2016. Authors with papers accepted for presentation at SciDataCon are also invited to submit their full papers to the Data Science...
International Data Week 2016
Session Proposals, SciDataCon 2016 (International Data Week)
Session proposals are invited for SciDataCon 2016: Advancing the Frontiers of Data in Research, which will take place in Denver, Colorado, USA on 11-13 September 2016 as part of International Data Week, 11-17 Sept 2016. SciDataCon 2016 seeks to advance the frontiers...
Call For Papers for Open Repositories 2016
As previous Open Repositories have demonstrated, the use of digital repositories to manage research, scholarly and cultural information is well established and increasingly mature. The Eleventh International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2016, will be held on...
Data Science Journal Call for Papers: Advances in Data Modeling and Knowledge Representation for Research Data
The Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal dedicated to the advancement of data science and its application in policies, practices and management of Open Data. The Data Science Journal is seeking papers for a special issue devoted...
Leading science groups urge global accord on ‘Open Data in a Big Data World’
Four major international science organisations (ICSU, ISSC, IAP and TWAS) have developed and support an accord that includes a set of guiding principles on open access to big data, necessary to protect the scientific process and assure that developing countries can...