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...

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...