A Light in the Darkness
SciDataCon participant, Here is some good news! Most of the presentations given at SciDataCon 2016 which took place in September in Denver, Colorado are now available from the conference website alongside the accepted abstract for the paper. Each session and the...
iCEOD & CODATA Open Research Data Hackathon
iCEOD, the ICT Centre for Excellence and Open Data of the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, and the locus of CODATA Kenya, is hosting a hackathon on 12 November. The theme will be ‘Developing innovative mobile applications based on open...
12th International Digital Curation Conference
"Upstream, Downstream: embedding digital curation workflows for data science, scholarship and society" Date: 20 - 23 February 2017 Venue: Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Edinburgh *Registration is now open* The 12th International Digital Curation Conference...
Call for Working Group and Review Circle Members: Standard Glossary for Research Data Management (IRIDIUM)
CODATA invites participants for a Working Group and a broader set of reviewers to advance a new international glossary of research data management terms and definitions. Dubbed the IRIDIUM (International Research Data Management) Glossary, this is an evolving...
Special SciDataCon 2016 Collection in the Data Science Journal
The present message is a reminder that all presenters at SciDataCon are invited to submit a paper to the Data Science Journal http://datascience.codata.org/ to be considered as part of a high-profile special collection of papers from the conference. Please note the...
Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles and Implementation Guidelines, now published
The Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles and Implementation Guidelines have now been published in Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.162241 The RDA-CODATA Legal Interoperability Interest Group has studied the issues related tothe intellectual...
Legal Interoperability of Research Data: Principles and Implementation Guidelines
The CODATA-RDA Legal Interoperability Interest Group has studied the issues related to the intellectual property of data: the resulting outcome is a set of principles and practical implementation guidelines. They are offered as high-level guidance to all members of...
Call for scientific and non-academic reviewers
International Council for Science in partnership with the Network of African Science Academies, and the International Social Science Council will support 10 collaborative research projects across Africa (to the value of up to 90,000 Euro each over two years) in...
Invitation to the euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting in Athens, 8-10 November 2016
This Autumn, euroCRIS will organize its “Strategic Membership Meeting”: the yearly opportunity for discussion and exchange of ideas between the Strategic Partners of euroCRIS and the euroCRIS Community, around an actual and mutually interesting theme: Towards optimal...
Pre-ICRI Workshop on Improving Data Sharing and Re-use in and for Africa
On Sunday 2 October, Simon Hodson, CODATA Executive Director participated in a panel and more general discussions at a Pre-ICRI Workshop on Improving Data Sharing and Re-use in and for Africa. The workshop was organised by DIRISA in partnership with RDA and DST and...