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...
Christine Borgman: Data Citation and Scholarship
As previously announced, the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation Standards and Practices is organising an International Series of Workshops to Implement Data Citation Principles. The objective of this series is to promote the implementation of data citation...
Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies
In 2014, CODATA was commissioned by the Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation and the Danish Digital Library to produce a briefing note or report on Current Best Practice for Research Data Management Policies. The full report - written by Simon Hodson and Laura Molloy...
DEADLINE APPROACHING: WSS Fellows Seminar on Big Data in Urban Contexts
CODATA is partnering the International Social Science Council in organising the World Social Science Fellows Seminar on Big Data in an Urban Context, 30 November to 4 December 2015, Xiamen, China. The deadline is now very close: 00.00 UTC, 24 August 2015. For further...
First Introductory ‘Vanilla’ CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School
The CODATA-RDA Working Group on Research Data Science Summer Schools has been making very good progress. We are pleased to announce that the first full introductory or Vanilla course will take place from 1-12 August 2016 at the Abdus Salam International Centre for...
International Series of Workshops to Implement Data Citation Principles
In 2015-16 the CODATA-ICSTI Task Group on Data Citation Standards and Practices is organising a series of workshops in participating countries. The objective is to promote the implementation of data citation principles in the research policy and funding communities...
Comparing Approaches to the Description of Nanomaterials
The CODATA Working Group (WG) on Nanomaterials held a small workshop with members of the eNanoMapper (http://www.enanomapper.net/) team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, on 13-14 July 2015. The purpose of the meeting was to clarify and compare approaches to...
Elizabeth Griffin: “Climate Change is everyone’s responsability: we need community initiatives”
In a recent post published on our blog, Elizabeth Griffin, the Chair of the CODATA Data at Risk Task Group underlines the urgent need to address climate change through local community initiatives such as Transition Towns like Totnes (UK)... Read more on the CODATA...
CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants: 2014
The CODATA Task Group on the Fundamental Constants has released its adjustment to the recommended values for 2014. See: CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants: 2014: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22826 or CODATA Recommended Values of the...