2016 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge now open, seeking innovations for data gaps and biases
The 2016 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, which will focus on on understanding, examining and addressing gaps and biases in open-access biodiversity data from the GBIF network, is officially open for submissions. Individuals and teams now have two months to develop...
SciDataCon 2016 and International Data Week: Programme, Registration and Accommodation
We are delighted to publish the draft programme for SciDataCon 2016: http://www.scidatacon.org/site/programme/ - with options for viewing in a full window or for downloading the spreadsheet.There will be seven parallel tracks spread over two days (Mon 12 and Tue 13...
General Assembly Announcement 2016
The 2016 CODATA General Assembly will be held on Sunday, 11 September 2016 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in Denver, Colorado. This year, the General Assembly precedes International Data week and which includes our conference SciDataCon 2016. Programme and...
International Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage August 30 – September 1, 2017
Location: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin The conference is open for contributions that cover technical challenges as well as strategic guidance. Key messages relating to the impact of new technologies and processes on cultural heritage are especially welcome. Our special...
Open Access Pledge
Clinicians, policy makers, decision makers, practitioners and many researchers in low-income countries still have limited access to key research findings, due to journal paywalls. The Global Young Academy has just launched the More Open Access pledge to push for...
Daisy Selematsela, NRF and longstanding member of CODATA TG awarded Knowledge Management Leadership Award 2016
Daisy Selematsela of the National Research Foundation, South Africa and a long-standing member of the CODATA PASTD Task Group has been nominated and awarded the Knowledge Management Leadership Award 2016 by the World Education Congress & Global Knowledge...
Call for CODATA Task Group Proposals, 2016: deadline 25 July – UPDATE
In response to many requests, CODATA has agreed to extend the deadline for Task Group proposals. Proposals for Task Groups should be sent to simon@codata.org on the form included in that document no later than COB on Monday 25 July 2016. This is an absolutely final...
Call for CODATA Task Group Proposals, 2016: deadline 11 July
CODATA has released a call inviting proposals for Task Groups to be presented to the CODATA General Assembly on 11 September 2016 in Denver, Colorado. The below document provides detail of the required scope of such Task Groups as well as an indication of some...
“Open Data and African Research” Special Issue – Call for Papers
Editors: Louise Bezuidenhout (University of Witwatersrand and Notre Dame); Louise.M.Bezuidenhout.1[at]nd.eduSabina Leonelli (University of Exeter); S.Leonelli[at]exeter.ac.ukBrian Rappert (University of Exeter); B.Rappert[at]exeter.ac.uk Background: This Special Issue...
Data Citation Workshop: Developing Policy And Practice – UPDATE
CODATA is pleased to announce further information relating to the US Data Citation Workshop: Developing Policy and Practice,Tuesday 12 July 2016. Keynote: The workshop will include a keynote from Marcia McNutt, President of the US National Academies of Science. ...