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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...
Preserving diffraction images as part of the scientific record
The Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group (DDDWG) of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) is continuing its work to evaluate the desirability of preserving diffraction images and other raw data sets as part of the permanent record of a scientific...
Applications are now open for the CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, in collaboration with CODATA, RDA and TWAS, is organising a short course in the data science approaches and skills that are essential for 21st century research. The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer...
CODATA Collection in Zenodo
CODATA uses Zenodo as a repository for our most important reports, statements and some presentations. Zenodo is an openly-available digital repository ‘launched within the OpenAIREplus project as part of a Europe-wide research infrastructure.’ See the About and FAQs...
CODATA at the GEO-XII Plenary in Mexico City
This week sees the 12th Plenary Meeting of GEO, the Group on Earth Observations, in Mexico City. GEO exists to promote the open sharing of Earth observation data in order to achieve 'a future wherein decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by...