National Research Data Workshop (DIRISA), South Africa
The South African Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA) is hosting a National Research Data Workshop from 19 to 21 June 2018 at the CSIR International Convention Centre (ICC) in Pretoria, South Africa. Please see attached for more information as...
Making FAIR Data a Reality – Recording and Slides from a LIBER Webinar on the work of the European Commission’s FAIR Data Expert Group
Simon Hodson, Executive Director of CODATA and chair of the European Commission’s FAIR Data Expert Group and Sarah Jones, Associate Director at the Digital Curation Centre and Rapporteur of the Expert Group given a webinar earlier this week. The webinar was organised...
Presentations from the Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium Now Available
The organisers and hosts are pleased to announce that the presentations from the Göttingen-CODATA RDM Symposium 'the critical role of university RDM infrastructure in transforming data to knowledge’ are now almost all available from the conference management...
Call for Nominations for CODATA Officers (President and Vice-President(s)) and Executive Committee Members: Deadline 27 April 2018
The deadline for nominations for Elections to the CODATA Executive Committee is approaching: Friday 27 April Call for Nominations for CODATA Officers (President and Vice-President(s)) and Executive Committee Members: Deadline 27 April 2018 Help CODATA deliver on its...
ICSU/NASAC/ISSC call for pre-proposals: Pathways towards Sustainable African Urban Development
Up to eleven collaborative research projects across Africa will receive funding for research that will explore integrated approaches for sustainable urban development in Africa. As part of the 5-year “Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa” programme,...
WDS Data Stewardship Award 2018: Call for Nominations Open!
The Call for Nominations for the 2018 WDS Data Stewardship Award is now open until 21 May 2018. This annual prize celebrates the exceptional contributions of early career researchers to the improvement of scientific data stewardship through their (1) engagement with...
Summer School On Urban Data Science
In today's world we have data all around us. With the progress in technology, a large amount of data is collected on a daily basis using different technology. Today’s urban world has ample of data which would be explored, for identifying trends by studying available...
Save the date! IDCC19, 4-7 February, Melbourne
The IDCC conference is going down under and it's going to be hot, hot hot! From the 4th to 7th February 2019, Donna McRostie, Anna Shadbolt, Peter Neish and the wonderful team at the University of Melbourne will be hosting the 14th International Digital Curation...
Workshop Applying bioinformatics and data science competency frameworks to ELIXIR Training, 5-6 April 2018, Amsterdam
Date: 5-6 April 2018 (preceded by an optional seminar on April 4) Venue: Amsterdam Science Park Congress Centre, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam Website & registration: Eventbrite page Full...
Improving Reproducibility in Research: The Role of Measurement Science
Venue: National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW Date: 01 May 2018 - 03 May 2018 We live in a world in which it is increasingly easy to collect enormous amounts of data, in which research frequently spans physical, chemical, and...