RELEASED TODAY: OECD and CODATA Report on Business Models for Sustainable Research Data Repositories
The OECD has today released an OECD Global Science Forum and CODATA Report on Business Models for Sustainable Research Data Repositories http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/302b12bb-en There is a large variety of repositories that are responsible for providing long term...
Call for Session Proposals, SciDataCon 2018, part of International Data Week 2018
Proposals are invited for sessions at SciDataCon 2018: The Digital Frontiers of Global Science. SciDataCon 2018 will take place as an integrated part of International Data Week, 5-8 November 2018, in Gaborone, Botswana. Session proposals should be made at:...
The ChinaGEOSS data portal released for emergency response to Iraq-Iran Earthquake at early of Nov 14
Hours after the earthquake along the border area between Iraq and Iran at night of Nov 12, 2017, ChinaGEOSS launched the CDDR mechanism (ChinaGEOSS Disaster Data Response) for emergency data response and got quick support from most of China operational satellite...
Abstract submission deadline extension to November 24th – Announcement of 2018 Digital Earth Summit in Morocco
Abstract submission deadline extension to November 24th Announcement of 2018 Digital Earth Summit in Morocco and CALL for Abstract International Society for Digital Earth The 7th Digital Earth Summit 2018, DES-2018, on Digital Earth for Sustainable Development in...
Presentations from the Botswana National Forum on Open Data Open Science, 30-31 October 2017
Congratulations to the Botswana National Open Data Open Science Forum with a highly successful workshop presented on 30 & 31 Oct. 2017 in Gabarone. The focus of the workshop was mainly on policy and infrastructure. Presentations are available...
Towards a Data Infrastructure Framework, UbuntuNetConnect 2017, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1 November 2017
Presentations available at: http://africanopenscience.org.za/?p=594 The African Open Science Platform partnered with the organisers of the UbuntuNetConnect 2017 conference and hosted a workshop – focusing on data infrastructure and capacity building – to 65...
IASSIST & CARTO 2018: CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Conference website: http://www.library.mcgill.ca/iassistcarto2018/ Conference hashtag: #iassistcarto The 44th annual conference of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) will be jointly held with the 52nd...
Papers from SciDataCon 2016, part of International Data Week, Denver, Colorado
SciDataCon2016 took place on 11-13 September 2016 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Denver, Colorado, USA. It was part of International Data Week, 11-16 September 2016, convened by CODATA, the ICSU World Data System and the Research Data Alliance. SciDataCon2016...
RDAP18 Call for Proposals
The Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit, to be held March 21-23, 2018 in Chicago, IL, invites calls for proposals from managers, users, and generators of digital data from all sectors, including industry, academia, government, and cultural heritage...
Workshop – Managing Digital Research Objects in an Expanding Science Ecosystem
“Managing Digital Research Objects in an Expanding Science Ecosystem” Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 9:00 am - 5:00 pm EST Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications U.S. National Library of Medicine/NIH 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 “We are...