Building Participatory Data Infrastructures Across Disciplines and Geographies
Reflections on the ECR-organized session ‘Perspectives on Data Repositories across Disciplines, Geographies, and Cultures’ from CODATA Connect leads Pragya Chaube, Louis Mapatagane, and Cyrus Walther. At International Data Week 2025, the Early Career Researcher (ECR)...
Ode to LOI (Legal and Organisational Interoperability) – Data moves at the speed of trust
Reflections on Legal and Organisational Interoperability at IDW2025 from Matti Heikkurinen, LOI Lead and Project Portfolio Manager, CODATA I’ll start with a confession: until quite recently, whenever I heard the word “interoperability”, I thought of the ability of any...
HIPs and Early Warnings for All
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) recently (20 October) released a landmark report Early Warnings for All in Focus: Hazard Monitoring and Forecasting. Launched by the UN Secretary-General, the Early Warnings for All (EW4All) initiative sets an ambitious...
Climate-Adapt4EOSC Innovative Services
The Climate-Adapt4EOSC project has produced two videos, describing the innovative services that are being built by the project. Part 1 describes the four innovative services of the project, designed to support data-driven climate adaptation: OPENHIDRA, 3SES, Just-CURS...
Read Now – October 2025: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Information Needs and Data Harmonization—Two Sides of the Same Coin? Author: A. J. Million, Jenny Bossaller, Sanja Gidakovic URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2025-030 Title: Financing Models for Sustainable Data Reuse Infrastructure Author: Rob W. W. Hooft,...
Evolving Roles for Data Scientists in the Age of Intelligent Automation
Reflections on Data Science and the role of the CODATA Data Science Journal from IDW and SciDataCon 2025, Brisbane, 15 October 2025, by Gita Yadav, DSJ Editorial Board, Matthew Mayernik, DSJ Editor-in-Chief, and Mark Parsons, past DSJ Editor-in-Chief. What is the...
Reimagining Data Futures – Reflections on Brisbane IDW: The CODATA International Data Policy Committee
Blog Post by Gitanjali Yadav, India The hum of conversation this week at the sprawling and impressive Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre carried a familiar cadence; the sound of the global data community converging once again under the banner of International...
When CARE Meets Reality (Reflections on Indigenous Data Governance at IDW 2025)
Blog Post by Gitanjali Yadav, India The opening plenary on CAREful Indigenous Data Governance at the International Data Week 2025 in Brisbane promised to be one of the most important conversations of the week long biennial data conference, and it delivered! The...
Mapping X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Standards to CDIF
The purpose of the CDIF-4-XAS project is to demonstrate that the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF) can function as a practical set of recommendations for an interoperability layer that will facilitate the aggregation and integration of XAS data for...
Linking variable description to machine-ready datasets
There is currently a lot of interest in how we maximise increase the effectiveness of datasets for AI training and fine-tuning through metadata. This led to the development of the ML Croissant metadata specification, “an open community-built standardized metadata...