This document provides a quick and accessible list of activities, deliverables and impact from the past year. It then highlights some important upcoming activities and events for 2019. Download the full document Additionally, the CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and...

CALL FOR SESSIONS – DEADLINE 15 April 2019 https://conference.codata.org/CODATA_2019/ The CODATA 2019 Conference will be held on 19-20 September 2019 in Beijing, China. This year’s conference theme is: Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices...

The December solstice was 22:23 UTC on Friday 21 December, so this comes a ‘little’ late.  Nevertheless, I would like to send the warmest best wishes to everyone involved in CODATA activities and to the wider global research data community.  2018 has been a...

Big Data in Europe: Strategies to address social needsBig Data can make important contributions towards technical progress, but what's needed are innovative technologies, strategies and competencies to address societal needs. UN Forum to bring 'big space data'...

The 13th RDA Plenary meeting will take place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 2 - 4 April 2019. Don't miss out on the opportunity to apply for: Working Group meetings: further the development of the working group recommendations Interest Group meetings: continue...

The 14th International Digital Curation Conference is going to Melbourne in February 2019 and we have an exciting programme packed with workshops, papers, posters and demos. The theme of the conference is Collaborations and Partnerships: addressing the big digital...

Be inclusive. Be creative. Be inspiring. And put your eyes on the horizon. This is the full Call for Contributions for the 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation,  iPRES 2019. Deadline for all submissions is 18 March 2019. All submissions and...

CODATA would like to draw the communities attention to the following call for feedback on a proposed 'Open Toolkit for Tracking Open Science Partnership Implementation and Impact’. https://gatesopenresearch.org/documents/2-54   Abstract The article and associated...

The Call for Proposals for the 7th Annual North American Data Documentation Initiative Conference (NADDI).  The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social,...

Institutions now have a new means at their disposal to aid them in assessing their research data management initiatives, the Evaluating RDM Tool.   A collaborative creation, the tool was developed using the SPARC Europe How Open is Your Research service and...