2014 CODATA Task Group Proposals for Consideration at the General Assembly
Task Groups have been established to support CODATA’s overall mission to strengthen international science for the benefit of society by promoting improved scientific and technical data management and use. More specifically, Task Groups must remain relevant in a fast...
CODATA Prize 2014 awarded to Professor Sydney Hall
Professor Sydney R. Hall, now Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, through life-long leadership has resoundingly produced outstanding achievements in the world of scientific and technical data. His efforts have reached beyond...
CODATA Elections: Final 2014 Nominations
At the forthcoming CODATA General Assembly at the Indian National Science Academy in New Delhi, 6-7 November, Delegates representing CODATA members will be able to vote for candidates for the following positions: President, Vice-President and 'Ordinary Members' of the...
SciDataCon 2014 DRAFT Programme Published
The draft programme for SciDataCon 2014, the International Conference on Data Sharing and Integration for Global Sustainability, jointly organised by CODATA and the ICSU World Data System, is now available. It is an exciting and packed programme, featuring carefully...
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...