Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: May 2020 Edition
A Data Ecosystem to defeat COVID-19 Bapon Fakhruddin discusses why the COVID-19 pandemic requires thinking and decision making supported by a data ecosystem which looks much further into the future than previous short-term approaches. In Low-Income...
Call for sessions, posters and lightning talks: International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020
The DEADLINE for session proposals is 30 September 2020. The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event from 27 November to 4 December. Please save the dates! This event will provide a unique forum for advancing...
UNESCO Global Consultations on Open Science
UNESCO has launched a global consultation on Open Science https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science/consultation with a view to developing a standard-setting instrument in the form of a Recommendation, to be adopted by the UNESCO General Conference...
NRF South Africa to host the AOSP Project Office
The National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa will host the African Open Science Platform (AOSP) Project Office for the next 3 to 5 years. Supported by South Africa’s Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), key institutions in Africa, and the...
EDDI20 – 12th Annual European DDI User Conference: Call for Papers
12th Annual European DDI User Conference (EDDI20), DDI - The Basis of Managing the Data Life Cycle Submission Deadline: July 12, 2020, 23:59 CEST Place: Paris, France Date: December 1/2, 2020 Hosts: Sciences Po, Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP), CNRS,...
DDI – Cross Domain Integration (DDI-CDI): first Public Review Release
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Alliance is pleased to announce the first Public Review of DDI - Cross Domain Integration (DDI-CDI), a specification aimed at helping implementers integrate data across domain and institutional boundaries. Although...
Call for Nominations and Applications: Chair, CODATA International Data Policy Committee, Deadline Monday, 25 May 2020
CODATA invites nominations and applications to become the Chair of the organization’s International Data Policy Committee for a 3-year term (renewable once by mutual consent), beginning 1 July 2020. We will accept applications directly from the candidate or...
Call For Papers CODATA Data Science Journal RDA Special Collection Extended To 17 July 2020
The RDA Europe 4.0 has been granted an extension by the European Commission, and will be contributing to promoting the RDA work on a global level till the end of September 2020. The project supports the publication of a maximum of 30 articles in the CODATA Data...
Call for Articles: Resilience in the Digital Age
The CODATA Task Group on Advanced mathematical tools for data-driven applied systems analysis has released a call for articles on Resilience in the Digital Age. Interested researchers are invited to submit articles to a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in...
March 2020: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Dataset after Seven Years Simulating Hybrid Energy Systems with Homer Legacy Author: Alexandre Beluco, Frederico A. During F°, Lúcia M. R. Silva, Jones S. Silva, Lúis E. Teixeira, Gabriel Vasco, Fausto A. Canales, Elton G. Rossini, José de Souza, Giuliano C....