CODATA President, Geoffrey Boulton, FRS, recently gave a webinar on 'Open Data and the Future of Science', organised by the Australian National Data Service. The presentation slides are available from the ANDS website. This follows a public lecture on Open Data, Big...

Polar Data Forum II: International Collaboration for Advancing Polar Data Access and Preservation 27-29 October 2015, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Registration is Open! Abstracts Deadline, 1 July 2015 Notification of abstract acceptance: 31 July 2015 Early Bird...

CODATA President, Professor Geoffrey Boulton, will participate to the Australian National Data Service* webinar, later today or tomorrow, depending on your time zone (Wed 16 June 12.00-13.00 AEST, 02.00-03.00 UTC) "This webinar is a rare opportunity for the Australian...

Last week, Alex de Sherbinin and Paola Kim-Blanco, both from the CODATA Global Roads Data Development Task Group and CIESIN at Columbia University, attended the State of The Map US, the annual conference of OpenStreetMap, held at the United Nations headquarters, in...

On 28 May, at the 3rd International Open Data Conference in Ottawa, The Global Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative, in collaboration with the Open Data Institute (ODI), released its new research report : How can we improve agriculture, food and...

The Data Science Journal has been relaunched in partnership with Ubiquity Press, and with a new Editor-in-Chief: Sarah Callaghan of the British Atmospheric Data Centre and formerly a co-chair of a number of CODATA Task Groups, including the TG on Data Citation. Call...

CODATA Early Career Data Professional core member, Xaiogang (Marshall) Ma, recently attended the  5th International Conference for Young Scientists and its Annual General Meeting at Montebello, Quebec, Canada. GYA issued a position statement on Open Science in 2012,...

CODATA President, Geoffrey Boulton, has published his message to the CODATA community in which he lays out CODATA's strategic vision and priorities over the next four years. Geoffrey writes: Friends and colleagues, I am honoured to follow Professor Guo Huadong as...

On Wednesday 10 June, CODATA President Geoffrey Boulton will give a public lecture at the University of Pretoria on 'Open Data, Big Data and the Future of Science'. The lecture will be preceded by a brief introduction to ICSU, the International Council of Science,...

Shiva Khanal - a Research Officer with the Department of Forest Research and Survey in Nepal and one of the international scholars sponsored by CODATA to attend the ISI-CODATA International Training Workshop on Big Data - has created word clouds of that event and...