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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The 30th CODATA General Assembly, held on Sunday 11 September at the start of International Data Week and SciDataCon, approved the following Task Groups for the two year period 2016-2018.   New Task Groups Coordinating Data Standards amongst Scientific Unions Building...