COMING SOON! The CODATA 2017 Conference, ‘Global Challenges and Data Driven Science’ will take place in Saint-Petersburg, 8-12 October 2017
Information about the conference is available at http://codata2017.gcras.ru/ ; the Call for Sessions and Papers will be issued soon and it will be possible to submit proposals and abstracts at http://conference.codata.org/2017/ from 24 April. The purpose of the...
eResearch Africa 2017 Conference: Data Driving Discovery, University of Cape Town, 2-5 May 2017
Programme: http://www.eresearch.ac.za/eresearch-africa-2017-programmeRegister: http://www.eresearch.ac.za/registration-eresearch-africa-2017The eResearch Africa conference is aimed at providing researchers with the platform to showcase how they are using IT...
Open Review of the IRIDIUM International Research Data Management Glossary WG Outputs
CODATA is collaborating on an international glossary of research data management terms and definitions: https://www.codata.org/working-groups/standard-glossary-for-research-data-management-iridium Dubbed the IRIDIUM (International Research Data Management) Glossary,...
Apply for CODATA International Training Workshop in Open Data for Better Science – Deadline 25 April 2017
CODATA International Training Workshop in Open data for Better Science, for Researchers from Lower and Middle Income Countries Beijing,China; 10-21 July 2017 Applications are invited from early career researchers as well as from research leaders and managers of...
Apply to participate in the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School and the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Applied Workshops – Deadline 25 April 2017
Following the enormous success of the 2016 edition of the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in collaboration with CODATA, RDA and TWAS, will host two related events in July this year. ...
European Commission Expert Group on FAIR Data – OECD GSF CODATA Project on Business Models for Sustainable Research Data
This week, our Executive Director, Simon Hodson has been involved in a number of important meetings and workshops, hosted by the European Commission in Brussels. 1) On Mon 27 March, He chaired the Horizon 2020 Expert Group on FAIR Research Data, which is tasked with...
Roundtable on Data Science Post-Secondary Education Meeting #2: Examining the Intersection of Domain Expertise and Data Science
March 20, 2017 Beckman Center, Huntington Room 100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA 92617 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is holding a one-day meeting and webcast on data science post-secondary education on March 20, 2017. This meeting will bring...
INSERM workshop 246 – Management and reuse of health data: methodological issues (Bordeaux, France, 15-17 Mai 2017)
This workshop will provide an insight on the best practices and tools to adopt in order to improve the management of health data throughout its life cycle, thus enabling a responsible sharing and enhanced reusability of data. Target audience: researchers, research...
New Zealand Government thanks IRDR and CODATA Groups and China GEOSS for their help following 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake
New Zealand was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Kaikoura in November 2016, and the government has expressed thanks to IRDR, CODATA and China GEOSS for their timely and free provision of satellite data that helped with damage and loss estimation following the...
Call for Expressions of Interest to Host International Data Week 2018
Deadline Extended to 24 March From 11 to 17 September 2016, more than 850 data professionals and researchers from all disciplines and from across the globe convened in Denver, Colorado, USA for the first edition of International Data Week (IDW). This landmark event,...