Historic launch of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
Xaiogang (Marshall) Ma, from the CODATA Early Career Data Professionals Group (ECDP), recently attended the Historic Launch of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, in New York City on September 28th. "The forum was held in the Jade Room of the...
‘Making Open Science a Reality’: New OECD Report Published
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) has just released its study on ‘Making Open Science a Reality’. This document also comprises individual country notes available here. The report preface summarises well the significance of the study and...
Get Ready to Apply for the CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School
First Introductory 'Vanilla' CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School 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...
Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship 2016
Are you a UK based researcher? Can you demonstrate a passion for your area, an ability to communicate ideas effectively and a real interest in the role of software in research? Then, the following information may be of interest to you: The Software Sustainability...
Introducing the new Data Science Journal Editorial Board
Sarah Callaghan, the new Editor-in-Chief of the Data Science Journal, recently relaunched with Ubiquity Press, writes: It is my great pleasure to be able to introduce the new editorial team for the Data Science Journal. We have gathered an exceptional team, with...
Second Scientific Data Conference held in Lanzhou, China
The Second Scientific Data Conference, sponsored by the Chinese National Committee for CODATA (CODATA-China), was held in Lanzhou, China on 26-27 August, 2015. More than 450 experts, scholars and students from over 100 research units participated in this conference. ...
Call for Participation: Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage
CODATA-Germany is partnering CODATA International (the ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology) in organising "DCH2015": the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage, in Berlin (Germany), 28-30 October 2015. Scope The...
IUCr Workshop on Metadata for raw data from X-ray diffraction and other structural techniques
From 22 to 23 August 2015, in Rovinj (Croatia), the International Union of Crystallography, which is a member of CODATA, held, through its Diffraction Data Deposition Working Group, a Metadata workshop to define the need for and practicalities of routine deposition of...
First ICSTI Webinar featuring CODATA President Geoffrey Boulton
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 Organization (NISO). ...
Trans-Disciplinary Glossary for Research Data Management
Research Data Canada and CASRAI have produced a PILOT trans-disciplinary glossary for research data management. This is potentially a very useful tool for increasing understanding of the domain and for assisting standardisation of business processes around the...