Call for Working Group and Review Circle Members: Standard Glossary for Research Data Management (IRIDIUM)
CODATA invites participants for a Working Group and a broader set of reviewers to advance a new international glossary of research data management terms and definitions. Dubbed the IRIDIUM (International Research Data Management) Glossary, this is an evolving...
Special SciDataCon 2016 Collection in the Data Science Journal
The present message is a reminder that all presenters at SciDataCon are invited to submit a paper to the Data Science Journal http://datascience.codata.org/ to be considered as part of a high-profile special collection of papers from the conference. Please note the...
Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles and Implementation Guidelines
The CODATA-RDA Legal Interoperability Interest Group has studied the issues related to the intellectual property of data: the resulting outcome is a set of principles and practical implementation guidelines. They are offered as high-level guidance to all members of...
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...