TWO WEEKS TO GO! The deadline to submit session proposals for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium is 30 September
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will take place as an innovative, entirely virtual event on 30 November to 4 December Submit a proposal for a session, DEADLINE 30 September: https://conference.codata.org/FAIRconvergence2020/ Submit a proposal for a...
Webinar 16 Sept: African Universities in Post COVID-19: assessing the opportunities and challenges of online learning
On 16 September at 11:00 UTC / 14:00 Nairobi, Joseph Muliaro Wafula, member of the CODATA Executive Committee will participate in a webinar on assessing the opportunities and challenges of online learning for African Universities in the post COVID world....
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: September 2020 Edition
World Bank: Hurricanes don’t know borders. Neither does a pandemic. In the field of disaster risk management, when a new risk appears in an already risky situation, we call it a compound risk. The COVID-19 pandemic means communities need to prepare even more...
ONE MONTH TO GO! The deadline to submit session proposals for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium is 30 September
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will take place as an innovative, entirely virtual event on 30 November to 4 December Submit a proposal for a session, DEADLINE 30 September: https://conference.codata.org/FAIRconvergence2020/ Submit a proposal for a...
August 2020: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: SparkNN: A Distributed In-Memory Data Partitioning for KNN Queries on Big Spatial Data Author: Zaher Al Aghbari, Tasneem Ismail, Ibrahim Kamel URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-035 Title: Unified Geomagnetic Database from Different Observation Networks for...
Register now: Online Training Course Using Data for Effective Communication
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), India and Committee on Data of the International Science Council, (CODATA) Online Training Course: Using Data for Effective Communication A training programme on data sourcing, analysis and visualisation for non-profits, NGOs,...
Introduction to FAIR Data Stewardship
In partnership with the Hogeschool Leiden, the GO FAIR Foundation has developed a FAIR Data Stewardship Course. An online version will be running in October-November 2020. Research projects create a lot of data. Although these data should remain available, in...
Register now for the virtual Data for Policy 2020: 5th International Conference 15 -17 September
Register now for the virtual Data for Policy 2020 5th International Conference 15 -17 September Data for Policy 2020 5th International Conference 15-17th September 2020 | Online dataforpolicy.org | @dataforpolicy (https://twitter.com/dataforpolicy) Registration...
The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School: Alumni Review and Refresh Online: 31 Aug – 11 Sep 2020
This year the CODATA/RDA Summer School will be going online! There will be no face-to-face School at Trieste in 2020. Instead, we are delighted to offer a virtual CODATA/RDA School of Research Data Science alumni event. This event is specially designed for those...
Follow-On Discussion Workshop for DDI-CDI Data Description, 19 August 2020
There will be a follow-up discussion workshop to the 12 August 2020 DDI-CDI Data Description webinar at 10:00 EDT/16:00 CEST on Wednesday 19 August 2020. You can register for the workshop at https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3437775245292851727. Following the...