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Alena Rybkina, member of the CODATA Executive Committee, of the CODATA Early Career Data Professionals Group, and a participant in the Task Group on Earth and Space Science Data Interoperability, recently attended the SCOSTEP-ICSU joint workshop ‘Global Data...

The 9th International Symposium on Digital Earth was successfully held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from 5th to 9th of October 2015, under the theme of “Towards a One-World Vision for the Blue Planet”. A day before this event, the International Society for Digital...

Simon Hodson, Executive Director of CODATA, recently participated in the Research Data Alliance 6th Plenary Meeting held in Paris. The CODATA community was very actively involved in this event with a number of joint Working Groups and Interest Groups. Simon himself,...

FORCE11 (Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship) is now soliciting proposals for preconference meetings for the FORCE2016 conference. The 2016 conference, “Building Bridges, Connecting Knowledge” will be held April 17-19, 2016 in Portland, Oregon. Sunday,...

A joint effort of Academia Sinica and the Pacific Science Association (PSA), the 23rd Pacific Science Congress will be held in Academia Sinica, Taipei on June 13-17, 2016. The main theme of this event is “Science, Technology, and Innovation: Building a Sustainable...

CODATA has been asked to take a leading role in Science International 2015: Big Data/Open Data.  The Expert Working Group that has been tasked with producing the international science ‘accord’ that is the principal output of this initiative, is being chaired by CODATA...

Xaiogang (Marshall) Ma, from the CODATA Early Career Data Professionals Group (ECDP), recently attended the Historic Launch of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, in New York City on September 28th. "The forum was held in the Jade Room of the...

The OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) has just released its study on ‘Making Open Science a Reality’. This document also comprises individual country notes available here. The report preface summarises well the significance of the study and...

First Introductory 'Vanilla' CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School 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...

Are you a UK based researcher? Can you demonstrate a passion for your area, an ability to communicate ideas effectively and a real interest in the role of software in research? Then, the following information may be of interest to you: The Software Sustainability...