So on this blog you can find out about CODATA’s Data Policy Committee and our activities to help define an international policy agenda for scientific data; about initiatives to push the frontiers of data science (through an international workshop series, our Task Groups<\/a>, Special Activities, biannual conference and our Data Science Journal<\/a>); and, about our advocacy and support for data issues in international scientific programmes like Future Earth.<\/p>\n CODATA is genuinely global and has 23 national members<\/a>. \u00a0Our model of collaboration \u00a0involves interaction between the activities of national committees and those of CODATA international. \u00a0Through its relationship with ICSU and the membership of international scientific unions<\/a>, CODATA can help understand and address the data challenges in a range of scientific disciplines. \u00a0CODATA sponsors a range of Task Groups<\/a> addressing issues at the frontiers of data science. \u00a0Through the Data Science Journal<\/a> and our biannual conference, we provide a space where scientists from diverse disciplines and data experts can discourse and collaborate.<\/p>\n I took up the post of Executive Director on 1 August 2013. \u00a0I am also a member of the Board of Directors<\/a> of the Dryad data repository<\/a>, a not-for-profit initiative to make the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. \u00a0From 2009 to 2013, as Programme Manager, I led two successive phases of Jisc’s<\/a> innovative Managing Research Data programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n Please get in touch! You can find my contact details here<\/a>. \u00a0To find out what is going on in the CODATA community and on the international research data scene, why not follow me on Twitter: @simonhodson99<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This blog is about the activities of the international CODATA community. CODATA is: An international community and network of expertise on research data issues. An influential and authoritative voice in national and international policy regarding scientific data management. A focal point for international, cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication on key scientific data issues. So on this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codata.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More about CODATA<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>CODATA is an interdisciplinary body of ICSU, the International Council for Science<\/a> and has been at the forefront of data science since 1966<\/a>. \u00a0We are a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to\u00a0to strengthen international science for the benefit of society by promoting improved scientific and technical data management and use.<\/p>\nAbout Simon Hodson<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>A notable feature of this blog will be guest posts from the CODATA community, from expert data scientists working on a range of fascinating projects. \u00a0Otherwise, posts will be written by me, Simon Hodson, Executive Director of CODATA.<\/p>\n