Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: December 2021 Edition
World Bank: Disaster risk insurance: 5 insights from the Philippines With disasters a growing threat, insurance for countries trying to manage climate and disaster risk is becoming increasingly critical. While insight on what works – and what doesn’t – to build...
CODATA CASRAI RDM Terminology Working Group
Today saw the first meeting of the 2021 CODATA CASRAI RDM Terminology Working Group. The working group will be carrying out the 2021 review of the CASRAI Research Data Management terminology, currently available at https://codata.org/rdm-terminology/. This...
IASSIST 2022: Call for Proposals
Conference website: https://iassist2022.org/ The 47th Annual Conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden from June 7 to 10, 2022. Submitting Proposals – DEADLINE: 7...
Register now: EDDI 2021 Training Fair
The DDI Training Group has organized a series of tutorials around the upcoming EDDI 2021 users conference. This includes a general overview of the DDI standards on Friday, November 26, followed by a series of more detailed tutorials on Monday November 29, and a...
MOU Concluded between CODATA and the BIPM
CODATA has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding with the BIPM (Bureau International des Poids et Mésures). It was signed by Dr Martin Milton, Director of the BIPM and by Dr Simon Hodson, Executive Director of CODATA on 11 October 2021. The BIPM hosts the CODATA Task...
Call for Sessions – SciDataCon 2022
Proposals are invited for sessions at International Data Week’s SciDataCon 2022: Data to Improve our World. The deadline for proposals is 23:59 UTC on 14 February 2022. Submit your session proposal at https://www.scidatacon.org/IDW-2022/submit/ About SciDataCon...
Webinar on Data Quality: Thinking about Quality and DDI Metadata
Data quality is a topic which is often discussed and attracts a lot of interest, but the way in which it is approached varies widely. This, our fourth webinar of the 2021 series took place on 18 November and examined different approaches in the use of metadata for...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: November 2021 Edition
Youth set stage for Americans and Caribbean Regional Platform Young people from across the Americas and the Caribbean have asked for a greater role in preparing and implementing policies to reduce disaster risk in one of the most hazard-prone regions of the...
October 2021: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Towards Globally Unique Identification of Physical Samples: Governance and Technical Implementation of the IGSN Global Sample Number Author: Jens Klump, Kerstin Lehnert, Damian Ulbricht, Anusuriya Devaraju, Kirsten Elger, Dirk Fleischer, Sarah Ramdeen, Lesley...
TOMORROW at Virtual SciDatCon 2021: Closing Plenary Session ‘Organisational Interoperability is Critical for Data Interoperability’ – 28 October 2021
Tomorrow is the last day of Virtual SciDataCon 2021. We close the conference with a plenary session. Organisational Interoperability is Critical for Data Interoperability and Virtual SciDataCon Closing Session, Thursday 28 October, 11:00-13:00 UTC: REGISTER FOR THIS...