Four major international science organisations (ICSU, ISSC, IAP and TWAS) have developed and support an accord that includes a set of guiding principles on open access to big data, necessary to protect the scientific process and assure that developing countries can...

The Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group (DDDWG) of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) is continuing its work to evaluate the desirability of preserving diffraction images and other raw data sets as part of the permanent record of a scientific...

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, in collaboration with CODATA, RDA and TWAS, is organising a short course in the data science approaches and skills that are essential for 21st century research. The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer...

For a little while now, CODATA has been using Zenodo as a repository for our most important reports, statements and some presentations. Zenodo is an openly-available digital repository ‘launched within the OpenAIREplus project as part of a Europe-wide research...

This week sees the 12th Plenary Meeting of GEO, the Group on Earth Observations, in Mexico City. GEO exists to promote the open sharing of Earth observation data in order to achieve 'a future wherein decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by...

Reminder! This autumn, CODATA as an associate member of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), will participate to the first webinar organised by this institution in collaboration with the National Information Standards...

Mark Thorley, a member of the CODATA Executive Committee, Chair of the CODATA Data Policy Committee, and Data Management Co-ordinator for the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council – NERC, has recently been interviewed by the Research Information magazine*. Here...

Last week, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, together with the Wellcome Trust and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute launched the Open Science Prize. It invites teams to propose or refine technical infrastructure (e.g. tools, services or platforms) that makes...

Elizabeth Griffin participated in the Research Data Alliance 6th Plenary Meeting held in Paris. The CODATA community was very actively involved in this event with a number of joint Working Groups and Interest Groups. Elizabeth herself is actively involved as chair of...

From 21 to 28th of October, CODATA is involved in a series of events about the Data Revolution and the importance of Data Citation, and in meetings to strengthen our collaboration with Australian organisations. Dr Simon Hodson, CODATA Executive Director, will be...