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Second Scientific Data Conference held in Lanzhou, China
The Second Scientific Data Conference, sponsored by the Chinese National Committee for CODATA (CODATA-China), was held in Lanzhou, China on 26-27 August, 2015. More than 450 experts, scholars and students from over 100 research units participated in this conference. ...
Introducing the new Data Science Journal Editorial Board
Sarah Callaghan, the new Editor-in-Chief of the Data Science Journal, recently relaunched with Ubiquity Press, writes: It is my great pleasure to be able to introduce the new editorial team for the Data Science Journal. We have gathered an exceptional team, with...
Call for Participation: Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage
CODATA-Germany is partnering CODATA International (the ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology) in organising "DCH2015": the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage, in Berlin (Germany), 28-30 October 2015. Scope The...
IUCr Workshop on Metadata for raw data from X-ray diffraction and other structural techniques
From 22 to 23 August 2015, in Rovinj (Croatia), the International Union of Crystallography, which is a member of CODATA, held, through its Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group, a Metadata workshop to define the need for and practicalities of routine deposition of...
First ICSTI Webinar featuring CODATA President Geoffrey Boulton
This autumn, CODATA as an associate member of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), will participate to the first webinar organised by this institution in collaboration with the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). ...
Trans-Disciplinary Glossary for Research Data Management
Research Data Canada and CASRAI have produced a PILOT trans-disciplinary glossary for research data management. This is potentially a very useful tool for increasing understanding of the domain and for assisting standardisation of business processes around the...
Christine Borgman: Data Citation and Scholarship
As previously announced, the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation Standards and Practices is organising an International Series of Workshops to Implement Data Citation Principles. The objective of this series is to promote the implementation of data citation...
Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies
In 2014, CODATA was commissioned by the Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation and the Danish Digital Library to produce a briefing note or report on Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies. The full report - written by Simon Hodson and Laura Molloy...
DEADLINE APPROACHING: WSS Fellows Seminar on 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. The deadline is now very close: 00.00 UTC, 24 August 2015. For further...
First Introductory ‘Vanilla’ CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School
The CODATA-RDA Working Group on Research Data Science Summer Schools has been making very good progress. We are pleased to announce that the first full introductory or Vanilla course will take place from 1-12 August 2016 at the Abdus Salam International Centre for...