CODATA is delighted to announce the launch of a major new project: ‘WorldFAIR: Global cooperation on FAIR data policy and practice’, funded by the European Commission through its Horizon Europe Framework Programme. Coordinated by CODATA, with the Research Data...

GPDRR2022- Co-Chairs’ Summary: Bali Agenda for Resilience The seventh session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction took place from 25 to 27 May 2022 in Bali, Indonesia. It was co-chaired by H.E. Prof. Muhadjir Effendy, Coordinating Minister for Human...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...