Session proposals are invited for SciDataCon 2016: Advancing the Frontiers of Data in Research, which will take place in Denver, Colorado, USA on 11-13 September 2016 as part of International Data Week, 11-17 Sept 2016. SciDataCon 2016 seeks to advance the frontiers...

As previous Open Repositories have demonstrated, the use of digital repositories to manage research, scholarly and cultural information is well established and increasingly mature. The Eleventh International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2016, will be held on...

The Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal dedicated to the advancement of data science and its application in policies, practices and management of Open Data.   The Data Science Journal is seeking papers for a special issue devoted...

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...