Save the Date: the International CODATA 2017 Conference, “Global Challenges and Data-Driven Science”
8-13 October 2017, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.The purpose of the conference is to explore the fundamental issues relating to the availability, (re-)use and scientific analysis of data that relate to the most significant contemporary global challenges. Further...
Open Science in Africa and in South Africa
The Science International Accord on Open Data in a Big Data World was launched at the Science Forum South Africa (SFSA) in December 2015. It was fitting that the next edition of SFSA should see the launch of an African Open Science Platform intiatiative that seeks to...
African Open Science Platform to boost the impact of open data for science and society: Media Release
An initiative to establish an African Open Science Platform to promote the value and exploit the potential of Open Data for science was announced by the Minister of Science and Technology, Mrs. Naledi Pandor, at the Science Forum South Africa 2016 (SFSA). The...
CODATA TG, China-GEOSS, Tonkin+Taylor and the Recent NZ Earthquake
The CODATA Task Group on Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research (LODGD) has assisted in providing data relating to the recent NZ earthquake. Tonkin+Taylor is collating geo-spatial information for the NZ Earthquake Commission on the damage caused by the 7.8...
CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants: 2014: Full Scholarly Paper Now Available
The full scholarly paper providing 'the 2014 self-consistent set of values of the constants and conversion factors of physics and chemistry recommended by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA)' was published in September 2016 in Reviews of Modern...
JKUAT iCEOD and IBM: Sharing knowledge with the wider community to improve public health and solve social challenges
IBM Cloud is collaborating with the ICT Centre of Excellence and Open Data (iCEOD) of the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology and the initial locus of CODATA Kenya. IBM Cloud has recently published an article about this activity. Jomo Kenyatta...
Upcoming CODATA Data Citation Workshops in Helsinki and Taipei
The international series of workshops on the practice of data citation as part of the activities ofthe CODATA Task Group on Data Citation is continuing with upcoming workshops in Helsinki and Taipei. Nordic Data Citation Workshop, Helsinki, 23 Nov CODATA, the Finnish...
ISDE10 Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: 30th November 2016 ISDE10 Call for Papers: 10th International Symposium on Digital Earth Sydney, Australia 03-06 April, 2017 The International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), founded in Beijing in 2006, is a non-political, non-governmental and...
Skills for e-infrastructures and data management in global change research
The Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures and Data Management Project (http://www.bfe-inf.org/) recognizes that, for global change research to flourish, a range of skills are necessary, increasingly so in the broad area of data intensive digital skills. Through this short...
The Internet of Things: Impacting Scientific Data and Information Flows, 9 Dec 2016, Washington D.C.
This workshop will examine how the Internet of Things affects information professionals, is transforming some fields of research and impacts upon issues relating to policy, ethics and standards. Detailed agenda and speakers Date: Friday 9 December 2016,...