Invitation to Participate in an Important Workshop on Education for Data Science
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in collaboration with CODATA, is organizing a workshop on Education for Data Science. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss how Data Science should be taught in academic institutions and what kind of training and...
Register now: Webinar on Urban Data Space as New Frontier: A Responsible Research and Innovation Perspective
Date: 21 September 2020 Time: 3:00 PM CET (6:30 PM IST) Duration: 45 min session and 15 min Question Answers (Total 1 hour) Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5174111913579989262 This talk focuses on the emerging phenomena of Urban Data Space...
Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: August 2020 Edition
UNDRR Sendai Hazards Report Launched “We believe the report, which classifies over 300 types of hazard across the extended range of risk identified in the Sendai Framework, namely natural and man-made hazards, as well...
July 2020: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: YARD: A Tool for Curating Research Outputs Author: Limor Peer, Joshua Dull URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-028 Title: An Infrastructure for Spatial Linking of Survey Data Author: Felix Bensmann, Lars Heling, Stefan Jünger, Loren Mucha,...
Register now: Webinar on Thinking Reproducibility in Your Research Work
Date: Thursday 13th August 2020 Time: 10 AM Central European Time Duration: 40 min session and 20 min Question Answers (Total 1 hour) Registration Link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1542506370658047758 Brief Write up about the session: Over the last half...
Register Now: Webinar on Create resilient communities with medium-range hazard warning systems
When: Tuesday, 11 Aug 2020, 1:00 PM (Auckland, Wellington), 1:00 AM (UTC) Register here: https://event.webinarjam.com/register/8/8rkn0u7 Early warning systems are a major component in disaster risk reduction. Despite forecasting system advances, hydro-meteorological...
Register Now: Webinars – DATA Description with the DDI-Cross Domain Integration (DDI-CDI)
The Data Documentation Initiative Alliance has recently announced the public review of their new specification, DDI - Cross Domain Integration (DDI-CDI). In order to introduce potential reviewers to the specification a series of general introductory webinars have been...
Register for the launch of a new scientific report on hazards definition
Please see the announcement below, from the International Science Council, UNDRR and PHE of an event to launch a new report on hazards definition for the Sendai Framework. Virginia Murray (Public Health England and CODATA Executive Committee) led the development of...
Mark Leggott appointed chair of the CODATA International Data Policy Committee
The CODATA Officers and Executive Committee are delighted to announce that Mark Leggott has been appointed as the new chair of the International Data Policy Committee (IDPC). Mark (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-7799) is Executive Director of Research Data...
Building digital workforce capacity and skills for data-intensive science: CODATA contributes to new OECD report on skills for the digital workforce
OECD has published ‘Building digital workforce capacity and skills for data-intensive science’, a report examining the skills requirements for data-intensive science, focusing primarily on research conducted in the public sector and its related training needs. The...