Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles and Implementation Guidelines, now published
The Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles and Implementation Guidelines have now been published in Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.162241 The RDA-CODATA Legal Interoperability Interest Group has studied the issues related tothe intellectual...
Call for scientific and non-academic reviewers
International Council for Science in partnership with the Network of African Science Academies, and the International Social Science Council will support 10 collaborative research projects across Africa (to the value of up to 90,000 Euro each over two years) in...
Invitation to the euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting in Athens, 8-10 November 2016
This Autumn, euroCRIS will organize its “Strategic Membership Meeting”: the yearly opportunity for discussion and exchange of ideas between the Strategic Partners of euroCRIS and the euroCRIS Community, around an actual and mutually interesting theme: Towards optimal...
Pre-ICRI Workshop on Improving Data Sharing and Re-use in and for Africa
On Sunday 2 October, Simon Hodson, CODATA Executive Director participated in a panel and more general discussions at a Pre-ICRI Workshop on Improving Data Sharing and Re-use in and for Africa. The workshop was organised by DIRISA in partnership with RDA and DST and...
CODATA Task Groups, 2016-2018
The 30th CODATA General Assembly, held on Sunday 11 September at the start of International Data Week and SciDataCon, approved the following Task Groups for the two year period 2016-2018. New Task Groups Coordinating Data Standards amongst Scientific Unions Building...
New CODATA Executive Committee
CODATA’s 30th General Assembly, held on Sunday 11 September prior to SciDataCon 2016 and International Data Week, elected a new Executive Committee as well the Officer roles of Secretary General and Treasurer. The full list of CODATA Officers and Executive Committee...
The Rescue of Data At Risk: Task Group’s First International Workshop
51 attended the "Data At Risk" Task Group's first international workshop, held this week (Sept 8-9) at UCAR in Boulder (Colorado) and generously hosted by the Center Green site of NCAR. True to its name, the Workshop "worked" hard, dividing its time between oral...
CODATA Prospectus: Strategy and Achievement 2015-2016
In advance of the General Assembly to be held in Denver, Colorado on 11 September 2016, CODATA has prepared and circulated a short Prospectus that provides a brief summary of strategy and achievement over the last two years or so. The Prospectus emphasises CODATA’s...
CODATA Prize 2016 awarded to Dr. David R. Lide
One of the most influential figures in the history of scientific and technical (S&T) data, Dr. David R. Lide has been a leader in virtually every aspect of improving the quality, accessibility and management of S&T data. From 1969 to 1988 Lide was the Director...
Call for Papers: ‘Special Issue: 20 Years Persistent Identifiers’, Data Science Journal
Persistent identifiers (PID) for scholarly resources have been around now for more than 20 years. Since the initial launch of the Handle.net we have seen a proliferation of PID into many use cases. Some PID systems have become established parts of the science...