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...

Organised by the University of Cambridge (UK), an Open Data panel discussion will be held on the 4th of November 2015 (7pm-10pm) at the Department of Engineering. Among five experts, Mark Thorley, CODATA Executive Committee Member and Data Management Co-ordinator for...

Alena Rybkina, member of the CODATA Executive Committee, of the CODATA Early Career Data Professionals Group, and a participant in the Task Group on Earth and Space Science Data Interoperability, recently attended the SCOSTEP-ICSU joint workshop ‘Global Data...

The 9th International Symposium on Digital Earth was successfully held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from 5th to 9th of October 2015, under the theme of “Towards a One-World Vision for the Blue Planet”. A day before this event, the International Society for Digital...

Simon Hodson, Executive Director of CODATA, recently 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. Simon himself,...

FORCE11 (Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship) is now soliciting proposals for preconference meetings for the FORCE2016 conference. The 2016 conference, “Building Bridges, Connecting Knowledge” will be held April 17-19, 2016 in Portland, Oregon. Sunday,...

A joint effort of Academia Sinica and the Pacific Science Association (PSA), the 23rd Pacific Science Congress will be held in Academia Sinica, Taipei on June 13-17, 2016. The main theme of this event is “Science, Technology, and Innovation: Building a Sustainable...

CODATA has been asked to take a leading role in Science International 2015: Big Data/Open Data.  The Expert Working Group that has been tasked with producing the international science ‘accord’ that is the principal output of this initiative, is being chaired by CODATA...