CODATA President, Barend Mons, has authored a ‘World View’ Opinion Piece in Nature: 'Invest 5% of research funds in ensuring data are reusable'   Barend argues that 'It is irresponsible to support research but not data stewardship’.   'Many of the world’s...

Welcome to the Alumni Survey   This survey is for alumni from schools ran between 2016 and 2019. Alumni from 2020 schools will be contacted separately. The co-chairs of the summer schools are pleased to invite you to complete this survey on your school experience...

Please save the date for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium convened by CODATA and GO FAIR on October 22-23 2020. Where: Paris, France Venue: TBC The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will provide a forum for advancing international and cross-domain...

Bushfire crisis: More than half of all Australians found to have been directly affected More than half of all Australians have been directly affected by the summer’s bushfire crisis, including millions suffering health effects, according to a new survey from the...

Title: Data Curation Profiling to Assess Data Management Training Needs and Practices to Inform a Toolkit Author: Bradley Bishop, Hannah Gunderman, Rowena Davis, Tina Lee, Rebecca Howard, Robert Samors, Fiona Murphy, Judit Ungvari...

International FAIR Convergence Symposium and CODATA General Assembly, 22-24 October 2020 Please save the date for the International FAIR Convergence Symposium convened by CODATA and GO FAIR on October 22-23 2020; followed by the CODATA General Assembly, 24 October...

Title: The Norwegian National Ground Segment; Preservation, Distribution and Exploitation of Sentinel Data Author: Trygve Halsne, Lara Ferrighi, Bard Saadatnejad, Nico Budewitz, Frode Dinessen, Lars-Anders Breivik, Øystein Godøy...

UNDRR SRSG Mami Mizutori speaks in AucklandThe Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction and the head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, recently spoke on resiliency and...

Hosted by the Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Supported by the European Commission and African Union Commission, IEEE Africa Council, IEEE Uganda Section, IST-Africa Week 2020 (Kampala, Uganda, May) is the fifteenth in...

  Title: Reviving an Old and Valuable Collection of Microscope Slides Through the Use of Citizen Science Author: John Pring, Lesley Wyborn, Neal Evans URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-057   Title: Efficient Stratified Sampling Graphing Method for Mass Data...