DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 JANUARY 2022: Call for Proposals to Host International Data Week 2025
In consideration of revised timescales, and to better allow for the preparation of proposals, the founding organisations have decided to extend the call for proposals to 31 January 2022. THE FOUNDING ORGANISATIONS ARE INVITING PROPOSALS TO HOST THE FIFTH EDITION OF...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: September 2021 Edition
IPCC Report: 10 Innovative ways people around the world are tackling climate change The IPCC report said global warming of about 1.1 degrees Celsius has brought changes worldwide, from droughts and storms to melting glaciers. But it is not too late to cut...
August 2021: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: On the Application of Principal Component Analysis to Classification Problems Author: Jianwei Zheng, Cyril Rakovski URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2021-026 Title: Research Data Management Challenges in Citizen Science Projects and Recommendations for Library...
DSJ announces New Joint Editor-in-Chief
CODATA is pleased to welcome Matthew Mayernik as Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Data Science Journal, joining Mark Parsons who has been Editor- in-Chief since 2019. Beginning 1 September, Matt and Mark will work as co-equals to collaborate around the duties of...
Register now: Webinar on “COVID-19 Data and Analysis” on August 24, 2021
A Webinar on COVID-19 Data and Analysis Jointly organized by the CODATA India National Committee, Pune Knowledge Cluster, and Indian National Science Academy Tuesday, August 24, 2021 at 4:00 PM IST Speaker: Dr. Joy Merwin Monteiro Dept. of Earth & Climate Science,...
Register now: Webinar on 2015 UN Landmark Agreements – particularly the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction – and the value of data in measuring what we need to manage
Date: 19 August 2021 Time: 10:00 am UK time Duration: 40 min session and 20 min Question Answers (Total 1 hour) Registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1919226550638363149 The COVID-19 pandemic is a timely reminder of how hazards within the...
The new World Data System International Programme Office, based in Oak Ridge Tennessee is looking for an Executive Director
Executive Director, International Program Office, World Data System Full-time, Exempt, Market Range 15 Executive Director (ED) leads the International Programme Office (IPO) of the World Data System (WDS) situated at Oak Ridge Institute @ University of Tennessee...
July 2021: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: SASSCAL WebSAPI: A Web Scraping Application Programming Interface to Support Access to SASSCAL’s Weather Data Author: Tsaone Swaabow Thapelo, Molaletsa Namoshe, Oduetse Matsebe, Tshiamo Motshegwa, Mary-Jane Morongwa Bopape...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: August 2021 Edition
Fijian Government: Ministry prepares for 2021-2021 Cyclone Season The Ministry of Rural and Maritime Development and Disaster Management has been diligently preparing its facilities and mobilising its resources for the impending 2021-2022 Cyclone Season. Part of these...
‘Data democratisation’ by Dr Neeta Verma – video available online!
What is 'data democratisation’, what benefits does it bring, and what are the challenges on the road to data democracy? On 20 June 2021, Dr Neeta Verma, the Director-General of the National Informatics Centre of India, set out her vision for the democratisation of...