New CODATA Executive Committee 2018-2020
CODATA’s 31st General Assembly was held at the University of Botswana on Friday 9 November-Saturday 10 November following International Data Week 2018. The General Assembly elected a new President, two new Vice-Presidents and a new Executive Committee.The full list...
A milestone in the history of science based on work of the CODATA, the Committee on Data of the International Science Council
The General Conference of Weights and Measures will meet in Paris to vote on whether to re-define the International System of Units (SI) for the kilogram, ampere, kelvin and mole based on fundamental laws rather than measurement. A unique event in the history of...
Artificial and Augmented Intelligence for Automated Investigations for Scientific Discovery (AI3SD) Network+ Launch
The official launch of the EPSRC Funded Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence for Automated Investigations for Scientific Discovery (AI3SD) Network+ www.ai3sd.org will take place on Wednesday 5th December in South West London at the Society of Chemical...
ELIXIR joined CODATA and RDA to organise an international summer school in research data science
There is a vast array of technologies and techniques that help scientists process and analyse the ever growing volumes of research data. Along with the rapid development of these techniques, there is a growing demand for comprehensive training in Research Data...
UCT e-Research Africa 2019 Conference Call for Papers
In a research-intensive environment, data scientists contribute to real-world problems in public health, education, sustainable energy, climate change, economic development, and many more areas of trans- and interdisciplinary research. Working on data mining or...
Tony Hey: Candidate for the CODATA Executive Committee and CODATA President
My Vision for CODATA I very much support the three major strategic programs put forward in CODATA’s Strategic Plan 2013 – 2018, namely: Data Principles and Practice Frontiers of Data Science Capacity Building However, given the promising developments of the last five...
IASSIST 2019 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
This IASSIST conference is about a lot of “firsts.” This is the first time the IASSIST conference has been hosted in the Southern Hemisphere, and it’s the first to be held in Winter since the very first one in February 1977. Why not share with us your “firsts”? What...
Workshop Report: “Interoperability of Metadata Standards in Cross-Domain Science, Health, and Social Science Applications”
Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, 1 – 5 October 2018, Wadern, Germany A workshop on the practical application of computer science to enable data sharing and data interoperability across disciplinary boundaries was hosted at the internationally...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 11th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE11)
The ISDE11 Call for Abstracts is now open We are pleased to announce this Call for Abstracts for the 11th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE 11). Important Dates for Abstract Submission Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 31st, 2019 Notification of...
DRR and Open DATA newsletter- October Edition
It’s our pleasure to share the October Edition of DRR and Open DATA newsletter on behalf of Disaster DATA Working Group of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme of ICSU/UNISDR, CODATA task group Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk...