CODATA Task Groups, 2016-2018

The 30th CODATA General Assembly, held on Sunday 11 September at the start of International Data Week and SciDataCon, approved the following Task Groups for the two year period 2016-2018.

 

• Coordinating Data Standards amongst Scientific Unions
• Building Foundational Training in Research Data Science
• Agriculture Data, Knowledge for Learning and Innovation
• Citizen Science and the Validation, Curation, and Management of Crowdsourced Data (with WDS)

 

• Practice and Impact of Digital Data Citation
• Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research (LODGD)
• Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries (PASTD)
• Earth and Space Science Data Interoperability (ESSDI)

 

Although for reasons of continuity and recognition, the Task Group on Fundamental Constants has retained that title, in the CODATA system, this is now a standing, ongoing activity.