Mark Thorley, a member of the CODATA Executive Committee and Chair of the CODATA Data Policy Committee, has been invited to become a member of the International Council of Science's Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the Conduct of Science (CFRS). In a post on...

Through a workshop organised with CODATA support and hosted at ICSU and a series of working meetings at the General 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), the Task Group on Earth and Space Science Data Interoperability has...

In a recently published blog post on the "Common Future Under Climate Change" conference site, the Chair of the CODATA Data at Risk Task Group underlines the importance of old, analogue data for our understanding of climate change :'Rescuing historical scientific...

Later today (19.00 UTC, Thursday 2 July 2015), Professor Liu Chuang, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Secretary to the CODATA PASTD Task Group will address the United Nations General...

The CODATA Data at Risk Task Group (DAR-TG) has suddenly got much larger! It has now become affiliated to the Research Data Alliance, through the formation of an RDA Interest Group for “Data Rescue”. The combined groups will share the benefits of the two supporting...

The European Geosciences Union General Assembly, in April, saw the International Data Rescue Award in the Geosciences given to British Macrofossils Online, a Jisc-funded project from the British Geological Survey to create a fully electronic catalogue of all the...

ICSU and the ICSU World Data System have each organised side events to the Our Common Future Under Climate Change Conference, Paris, 7-10 July 2015. Science and the Road to Transformation: Opportunities in the post-2015 Global Climate Regime The International Council...

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...