National Mapping Efforts Support Government at All Levels Efforts to map data at a national level can help state and local government agencies better serve constituents — especially where health and safety are concerned. One such effort is a place-based tool from the...

Resilience and Trust in Turkey & Syria Why data matters in the face of human tragedy A CODATA statement of support Paris, 1 March 2023 As members of the International Science Council (ISC)’s Committee on Data (CODATA), we express our heartfelt support for the...

New WorldFAIR Project Deliverable 13.1 'Cultural Heritage Mapping Report: Practices and Policies supporting Cultural Heritage image sharing platforms’ outlines current practices guiding online digital image sharing by institutions charged with providing care and...

Towards a FAIRer World Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to address global challenges A Symposium co-organized by UNESCO, International Science Council (ISC) Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS) UNESCO, Paris, and virtual;...

New Article Explores Climate-Related Disasters and Mobility Data A recent publication outlines how weather events are becoming more dangerous due to climate change, and often lead to communities being displaced temporarily, or even permanently, which can have serious...

New from the WorldFAIR project (https://worldfair-project.eu/), this report provides an overview of the data harmonisation practices of comparative (cross-national) social surveys, through case studies of: (1) the European Social Survey (ESS) and (2) a satellite...

Title: Data Management Plans: Implications for Automated Analyses Author: Ngoc-Minh Pham , Heather Moulaison-Sandy, Bradley Wade Bishop, Hannah Gunderman URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2023-002 Title: Making Drone Data FAIR Through a Community-Developed Information...

Title: RDM in a Decentralised University Ecosystem—A Case Study of the University of Cologne Author: Constanze Curdt, Jens Dierkes, Sonja Kloppenburg URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2022-020 Title: Organization IDs in Germany—Results of an Assessment of the Status Quo...

WorldFAIR and a Festival of Data - Looking back on 2022 and forward to 2023: a report on CODATA activities and achievements is now available https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7473141 2022 has been another busy and successful year for the CODATA community.  We are very...

Losses from climate change: €145 billion in a decade Climate change drives extreme weather and climate-related events, which in turn lead to economic losses. Such events, including heat waves, floods and storms, have caused over €145 billion in economic losses in the...