ISI-CODATA Big Data Workshop as Word Clouds
Shiva Khanal - a Research Officer with the Department of Forest Research and Survey in Nepal and one of the international scholars sponsored by CODATA to attend the ISI-CODATA International Training Workshop on Big Data - has created word clouds of that event and...
ICPSR Summer Program on Curating and Managing Research Data for Re-Use
The ICPSR Summer Program is offering a five-day workshop on Curating and Managing Research Data for Re-Use, July 27-31, 2015. This workshop is for individuals interested or actively engaged in the curation and management of research data for sharing and reuse,...
2015 Dryad Community Meeting, 27 May, Washington. DC
The 2015 Dryad Community Meeting will be taking place at 8:30am-4:00pm on 27 May in Washington, DC at the American Geophysical Union, 2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009. The Dryad Community Meeting is an annual event for researchers, journal editors,...
Science Journalists Learn about the Data Revolution for the Sustainable Development Goals
See the CODATA Blog for a new post from Alex de Sherbinin, Chair, CODATA Task Group on Global Roads Data Development and Associate Director for Science Applications, CIESIN, Columbia University who spoke recently on about Big Data, using the Sustainable Development...
Uniform Description System for Materials on the Nanoscale (v.1.0) Published
The CODATA-VAMAS Working Group on Nanomaterials has released version 1.0 of the Uniform Description System for Materials on the Nanoscale (UDS). This document, including a downloadable version and background information, is publically available...
International Partnership to Increase the Benefit of Research Data for Society
CODATA, the ICSU Committee on Data for Science and Technology, the ICSU World Data System and the Research Data Alliance today announce the completion of a Memorandum of Understanding which makes formal their collaboration. Coordination of effort is important since...
ISI CODATA International Training Workshop on Big Data
CODATA and the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) - and other partners - will convene an International Training Workshop on Big Data. This will continue the emerging series of International Training Workshops which CODATA is seeking to establish with a variety of...
Research Data Netherlands Joins CODATA
At the CODATA General Assembly in New Delhi, Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) was welcomed as a new National Member of CODATA. See the news story on the RDNL website: CODATA focuses on improving the quality, reliability, management and accessibility of scientific...
CODATA General Assembly Elects New President and Executive Committee
The 2014 CODATA General Assembly was held on 6-7 November, at the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, following the SciDataCon Conference. The General Assembly performs an important role in CODATA's governance and strategic planning. This year's General...
CODATA Becomes a Participating Organisation of GEO
CODATA is delighted to have been recognised - today at the GEO-XI Plenary in Geneva - as a Participating Organisation of GEO, the Group on Earth Observations. As described on the CODATA blog earlier this year, CODATA has been deeply involved in a number of GEO...