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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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...