Open Science and ‘being scientific’: Mercè Crosas at the OECD Multi-Stakeholder Event, 23 April
At the OECD STI Multi-Stakeholder event ‘Shared challenges, transformative actions’, on 23 April, CODATA President, Mercè Crosas, was the first speaker on a panel with the theme ‘Making Open Science a reality for the benefit of society’. Mercè started by arguing that...
The WorldFAIR Webinar Series: Guidelines and Recommendations from the Case Studies on Chemistry and Nanomaterials
April 22 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (UTC) Register here Speakers: Evan Bolton: Protocol Services: Standardized programmatic access to chemical information Stuart Chalk: Training Cookbook: Digital recipes for managing chemical data Iseult Lynch: The Case Study on...
Call for Papers: ICTD 2024 conference in partnership with AOSP EA Node
The 13th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2024), to be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from December 9-11, 2024, invites you to submit research papers (http://www.ictd.org). About: ICTD 2024 provides an...
WorldFAIR Webinar: Reusing Plant-Pollinator Datasets – a Global Perspective with Guidelines and Recommendations inspired by Pilot Studies from Africa, the Americas and Europe
Registration is open for this WorldFAIR webinar: "Reusing Plant-Pollinator Datasets: a Global Perspective with Guidelines and Recommendations inspired by Pilot Studies from Africa, the Americas and Europe”, taking place on Thursday 18 April at 14:00-15:00 UTC More...
CODATA Data Ethics Working Group Policy Briefs Available for Comment and Feedback
The CODATA Working Group on Data Ethics (now a Task Group), has produced three policy briefings on important topics in relation to data ethics. At least two more are in the pipeline. The policy briefings respond to the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. They...
Read now – Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: April 2024 Edition
Dangerous humid heat in southern West Africa about 4°C hotter due to climate change The southern coastal zone of Western Africa – also called the Guinea zone – experienced abnormal early season heat in February 2024. A combination of high temperatures and relatively...
March 2024: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Insights on Sustainability of Earth Science Data Infrastructure Projects Author: Arika Virapongse, James Gallagher, Basil Tikoff URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2024-014 Title:An Unsupervised Learning Approach to Evaluate Questionnaire Data—What One Can Learn...
NEW WorldFAIR Deliverables for Agricultural Biodiversity, Chemistry, Geochemistry, Nanomaterials, and Social Studies
WorldFAIR — the flagship project of the CODATA Decadal Programme, “Making Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges" — has had a busy start to 2024. In the first three months of the year, we have published eight new reports: for agricultural biodiversity, chemistry,...
Work with the EDI Team at Technical University of Munich – Research Fellows in Data Studies and Ethical Data Work – Two positions available
The Ethical Data Initiative at the Technical University of Munich is seeking two highly motivated postdoctoral researchers who share a deep interest in exploring educational, social, and governance issues that arise when working with data. The positions, under the...
Join the World Data System Scientific Committee (WDS-SC): Two Vacant Positions Now Open – Deadline 5 April
Message sent on behalf of Meredith Goins, Executive Director, WDS International Program Office. We're pleased to announce that the World Data System seeks to fill two vacant positions on our esteemed Scientific Committee. The WDS-SC is the governing body of WDS, and...