CODATA in Australia: the Data Revolution and Data Citation
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...
Open Data: moving science forward, or a waste of time and money?
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...
Global Data Activities for the Study of Solar Terrestrial Variability
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...
Prof. Guo Huadong, CODATA Past-President, elected President of ISDE
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...
‘Cranking it out’: CODATA and RDA Plenary 6
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,...
Call for Preconference Meetings: FORCE2016 conference
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,...
Call for Symposium & Workshop Session Proposals: 23rd Pacific Science Congress
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...
Science International 2015: Big Data/Open Data
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...
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...