DEADLINE APPROACHING! CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School 2022: apply to participate in person or online
The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School is returning to ICTP in Trieste in a hybrid (in person and online) format for 2022! Apply here to participate: this year's School takes place 11-22 July: https://indico.ictp.it/event/9806/ The deadline for in...
Launching of Data for Disaster Risk Reduction Podcast Series
This podcast series, ‘Data for Disaster Risk Reduction, reflects the systemic use of data for handling disasters and effective decisions for post-disaster recovery. The series also focuses on the role of data at each stage of the disaster management cycle: Mitigation,...
Why should I attend International Data Week 2022?
The organising committee of International Data Week organised an informational webinar entitled “Why Attend International Data Week 2022?” The webinar highlighted a variety of topics on why individuals should attend IDW, the importance of data in the world’s next...
Policy Brief: Harnessing data to accelerate the transition from disaster response to recovery
The CODATA Task Group on FAIR Data for Disaster Risk Research has produced a Policy Brief as input to the seventh session of the Global Platform (GP2022), organized by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) from 23 to 28 May 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. This...
CODATA, ISC and Metrology in the Digital Era
Today, 20 May, is World Metrology Day, an annual celebration of the signature of the Metre Convention on 20 May 1875, the Convention which set the framework for global collaboration in the science of measurement and in its industrial, commercial and societal...
CODATA-DDI Alliance webinaire en français: Vive les Métadonnées ! (Les bases de DDI en français), 13 juin 2022. Inscriptions maintenant ouvertes !
NOUVEAU webinaire en français: Vive les Métadonnées! (Les bases de DDI en français) // NEW webinar in French: Long live metadata! (DDI basics in French): 13/06/2022, 14.00-15.30 UTC. Annonce bilingue FR+EN // Bilingual announcement FR+EN Français: Le deuxième...
SciDataCon 2022 Programme Published
CODATA and WDS are pleased to announce that the programme for the SciDataCon 2022, part of International Data Week 2022, has now been published at idw2022.org. All the accepted sessions can also be conveniently viewed at...
Stop squandering data: make units of measurement machine-readable: CODATA DRUM TG comment article in Nature
The CODATA Task Group on Digital Representation of Units of Measurement (DRUM) and colleagues from the CIPM’s Digital SI Task Group have published a comment article in Nature. ‘Stop squandering data: make units of measurement machine-readable’ describes some of the...
Why attend SciDataCon 2022?
World Data System (WDS) and the Committee on Data (CODATA), both data organisations established by the International Science Council, are announcing a webinar entitled “Why attend SciDataCon 2022?” SciDataCon is a part of International Data Week 2022 and will cover...
The Units Summit @ SciDataCon 2022
The DRUM TG, in collaboration with the CIPM SI Digital Framework TG and the BIPM are please to announce the upcoming “Units Summit” @ SciDataCon and BIPM, June 20th – 23rd, to coincide with meetings at BIPM and with SciDataCon 2022 (one of the two conferences...
