CODATA Highlights Presented at the ICSU General Assembly
CODATA President, Professor Huadong Guo, and Executive Director, Dr Simon Hodson, recently attended the General Assembly of ICSU, the International Council of Science in Auckland, New Zealand. As noted in the our blog, CODATA was heavily involved in a number of...
Kenya Cabinet Secretary Supports the International Workshop on Open Data for Science and Sustainability in Developing Countries
Yesterday, Wednesday 6 August 2014, saw the opening of the International Workshop on Open Data for Science and Sustainability in Developing Countries, organised by CODATA and the CODATA Task Group on Preservation and Access to Scientific and Technical Data with...
CODATA Organises Workshop on Open Data at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
On Monday 4 August 2014 and Tuesday 5 August, CODATA, through its Task Group on Preservation and Access to Data in/for/with Developing Countries, delivered a Training Workshop on Open Data at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, near Nairobi....
‘CODATA: International Collaboration for Open Scientific Data’: an information leaflet
Prepared for distribution at the CODATA Workshop on Open Data for Science and Sustainability in Developing Countries, the leaflet CODATA International Collaboration for Open Scientific Data provides a brief overview of CODATA's mission, strategic plan, membership and...
CODATA General Assembly 2014
The 2014 CODATA General Assembly will be held on 6-7 November 2014 at the Indian National Science Academy, in New Delhi. As is customary, the General Assembly follows immediately the CODATA Conference, SciDataCon 2014, co-organised with our sister organisation the...
US NSF Program Solicitation: Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)
The US National Science Foundation has announced a Programme Solicitation for Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE). Proposals must be submitted by 'U.S. academic institutions with Ph.D.-granting programs that have awarded doctoral degrees in...
CODATA Prize to Recognise Outstanding Achievement in the World of Scientific Data
The CODATA Prize is made every two years at our conference. It is a major award which recognises outstanding achievement in the world of scientific and technical data. The 2014 CODATA Prize will be presented at SciDataCon 2014, 2-5 November 2014, New Delhi, India....
Call for Proposals for CODATA Task Groups 2014-16 extended to 30 May
CODATA has extended the deadline for proposals for new Task Groups and to renew existing Task Groups. The new deadline is 30 May. Task Groups are established to support CODATA's overall mission to strengthen international science for the benefit of society by...
Workshop on Big Data for International Scientific Programmes: Challenges and Opportunities
With a number of important partners, CODATA is convening a major Workshop on Big Data for International Scientific Programmes which will take place in Beijing on 8-9 June 2014. For further details follow the link above to the CODATA Blog. The workshop is designed to...