Dryad is seeking to hire an Executive Director
Dryad is the leading multidisciplinary data repository that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad envisions a world where curated research data is openly available, integrated with the scholarly literature, and routinely re-used to...
Call for Proposals, CODATA Tasks Group 2021-2023 : Deadline 12 July 2021
CODATA invites proposals for Task Groups to be approved by the 32nd CODATA General Assembly which will be held on 12-13 November 2021, following International Data Week 2021, convened by CODATA, the Research Data Alliance and the World Data System on 8-11 November...
Webinar on Introduction to Metadata for Research Data Management: A Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Perspective
Webinar held on 29 April 2021, 10:00 – 11:30 EDT/16:00 – 17:30 CEST Presentation from the webinar for the DDI Community, given by Arofan Gregory and Alina Danciu. Description: This workshop introduces the definition and use of metadata in modern research data...
Big Data, FAIR Data, Open Data: Systems Analysis in Eurasia, Thu 15 April
Zoom Webinar, Thu 15 April, 10:45 UTC - 12:00 UTC For more information and to register see https://connect.iiasa.ac.at/events/55511 This webinar is part of a larger conference 'Systems Analysis in Eurasia’ https://iiasa.ac.at/web/home/about/regional/eurasia.html To...
March 2021: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Affiliation Information in DataCite Dataset Metadata: a Flemish Case Study Author: Niek Van Wettere URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2021-013 Title: Versioning Data Is About More than Revisions: A Conceptual Framework and Proposed Principles Author: Jens Klump,...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: April 2021 Edition
An early warning system could save global supply chain crisis 'An industry's supply chain is several miles long, but only an eighth of an inch deep'. Given the widespread strain a year ago regarding shortages, the global trading system has, in many ways, held up...
Report – SEMAF: A Proposal for a Flexible Semantic Mapping Framework
The EOSC funded project SEMAF produced its final report on a flexible semantic mapping framework which may offer an alternative way to enable semantic cross-walks when integrating data from different sources. The suggested approach is pragmatic and should support...
Remembering Dr. Peter Fox 1959-2021 – A titan in the Earth science informatics community
With heavy hearts, we relay the shocking, sad news shared by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) on Sunday: Dr. Peter Fox died on March 27, 2021. The Earth and space science informatics community, and the wider data community, has lost a titan. We want to express...
Data Together: Fostering Cooperation Among Open Science Platforms
Collectively referred to as Data Together, the four collaborating international data organisations—CODATA, GO FAIR, RDA, WDS—have a joint commitment (published in March 2020) to work together to optimise the global research data ecosystem and to identify opportunities...
Register Now: FAIRsFAIR 2021 Public Workshop
In the week of 7 to 15 April FAIRsFAIR will be offering project insiders and external stakeholders alike the opportunity to immerse themselves fully in all things related to a FAIR Data management in the EOSC framework. FAIRsFAIR is one of the Horizon 2020 projects...