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...
An African Open Science Platform initiative – Invitation to a series of webinars on “Incentives for sharing research data” 25, 26 and 27 October 2017 (Open Access Week)
The Open Science movement – focused on making research data, software code and experimental methods publicly available and transparent - is steadily gaining momentum. According to Gewin (2016), “[A]a spirit of openness is gaining traction in the science community, and...
Report from the Madagascar High-Level Meeting on Environmental & Scientific Data for Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries
From 4-8 September 2017, the African Open Science Platform Project (in collaboration with CODATA and with the Madagascar Ministries of Environment, Ecology and Forests; of Higher Education and Research; of Posts, Telecommunications and Digital Development; and of the...
7th Digital Earth Summit 2018 (DES-2018) 17-19 April, 2018, Morocco – Deadline for abstract submission: 21 October 2017
The 7th Digital Earth Summit 2018 will be a major event in the African and international community of Earth observation and geo-spatial information science in 2018. It will be organized by International Society for Digital Earth...
Disaster Loss Data: Raising the Standard – a white paper
National disaster loss databases are crucial to producing and acting upon risk information that, in turn, advances appropriate policy making and risk governance. They also serve as basic mechanisms for reporting on the Sendai Framework targets. Data collection is...
IDCC call for papers: beyond FAIR
The 13th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will take place in Barcelona on 19-22nd February 2018. The call for papers is out now and we encourage you to submit work on relevant digital curation, preservation and research data management initiatives. ...