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Elizabeth Griffin: “Climate Change is everyone’s responsability: we need community initiatives”
In a recent post published on our blog, Elizabeth Griffin, the Chair of the CODATA Data at Risk Task Group underlines the urgent need to address climate change through local community initiatives such as Transition Towns like Totnes (UK)... Read more on the CODATA...
CODATA has new pages on Facebook and LinkedIn
Come and visit our Facebook page and also be part of our network on LinkedIn! You will find there more news and photos about our activities. Join us and don't hesitate to like, share and comment! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/codata.org...
CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants: 2014
The CODATA Task Group on the Fundamental Constants has released its adjustment to the recommended values for 2014. See: CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants: 2014: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22826 or CODATA Recommended Values of the...
GEO Data Management Principles
In the spring of 2014, GEO, the Group on Earth Observations, established a Data Management Principles Task Force with the mandate to develop a set of Data Management Principles for the GEO community which would inform and help those organisations making data available...
Call for Applications – World Social Science Fellows – 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. ISSC invites applications from outstanding early career social...
Mark Thorley Appointed to the Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the Conduct of Science
Mark Thorley, a member of the CODATA Executive Committee and Chair of the CODATA Data Policy Committee, has been invited to become a member of the International Council of Science's Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the Conduct of Science (CFRS). In a post on...
Preparation Underway of the Second Edition of the Atlas of the Earth’s Magnetic Field
Through a workshop organised with CODATA support and hosted at ICSU and a series of working meetings at the General 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), the Task Group on Earth and Space Science Data Interoperability has...
Elizabeth Griffin: “The Past is an Essential Component of the Future”
In a recently published blog post on the "Common Future Under Climate Change" conference site, the Chair of the CODATA Data at Risk Task Group underlines the importance of old, analogue data for our understanding of climate change :'Rescuing historical scientific...
CODATA and WSIS+10 at the UN General Assembly
Later today (19.00 UTC, Thursday 2 July 2015), Professor Liu Chuang, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Secretary to the CODATA PASTD Task Group will address the United Nations General...
Data at Risk and Data Rescue
The CODATA Data at Risk Task Group (DAR-TG) has suddenly got much larger! It has now become affiliated to the Research Data Alliance, through the formation of an RDA Interest Group for “Data Rescue”. The combined groups will share the benefits of the two supporting...